July 25, 2011
Greetings
and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Without any further ado,
here we go with this week's Coronation
Street
update.
First off folks, I
don't usually do this but this deserves a special mention. If you're a fan of
Coronation
Street cabbie controller
Fat Brenda, you might like to know you can see her in the flesh, on stage, in
a one-woman show at The Harrogate Theatre, Yorkshire in April 2012. Full
details are here.
Mikey North, the actor who
plays Gary Windass, has played a blinder this week.
Gary is still going
through post traumatic stress disorder after his short stint in the army and
the death of his mate Quinny.
Pretending to be ok is a recipe for disaster when he goes into meltdown
back on civvy street. He takes his role as protector of Izzy just a little
further than she would like after he gets a packing job in the factory as the
new man in ladies pants. But when
Izzy wants a night out on her own without Gary, she's mugged
at a cashpoint and is thrown from her wheelchair. When
Gary finds out, he
goes ballistic and thumps Sean by the beer pumps, giving him a black eye,
taking his anger out on totes the wrong man. Ooh, I've said totes. Get
me. Anyway, Izzy's fine, just
shaken, not stirred and determined to get on with her life despite a few
bruises from the mugging attack.
But Gary's not having
it. He pretends he's taking her wheelchair in to get fixed but leaves it in
his van, making Izzy a prisoner in her own home. He closes the blinds in Izzy's flat,
tells her he'll protect her from the bad ‘uns outside her front door, turns
off the lights and locks her indoors. Izzy is beside herself with worry and
after Chesney and Katy come calling at her door, and
Gary tells them
Izzy's asleep and doesn't want to see them, Katy tells dad Owen who goes round
to the flat and kicks the door in.
Owen finds Izzy cowering in the corner of her bedroom with
Gary protecting her,
but it's clear he's suffering as much as poor Iz is. "Help me," he cries out to Owen. "Help
me." And there wasn't a dry eye
in our house, I can tell you.
Over at the Barlows'. Deirdre
runs a bath for Ken and puts fresh batteries in his waterproof radio but it's
not enough to get Ken out of his stupor and his dressing gown. He's been
betrayed by grandson James after he found out that James had taken out a loan
of £50k on his house. Ken finds the cheque and confronts James who knocked Ken
against the wall, battering the Barlow. It's left to Rita and Dennis to take
Ken out to the pub and into the land of the living to cheer him right
up.
In the back room of the Rovers,
Steve settles himself on the sofa for an afternoon of misery with The Smiths
and Scotch. He's feeling sorry for himself when he finds out that Becky's gone
to Crete with a fella called Clarkey. I know a fella called Clarkey, he's a
painter and decorator, but I digress.
Tracy's straight in
there trying to cheer Steve up and invites him for tea chez Barlow. She even
irons the tablecloth in readiness for his visit to tea. What she has in store
for dessert is anyone's guess. Actually, it's everyone's guess and we'd all
guess it right and Steve, as we know, will get it horribly
wrong.
And over at Bessie Street
Infants, Julie takes little Dylan to a pre-school reading as neither Marcus
nor Sean are free. Julie's loving
playing mum to the son she's never had and so when another mother thinks that
Dylan's her real kid, Julie does nowt to contradict her. However, the teacher giving the
reading turns out to be Brian and Julie comes over all peculiar as she stares
into his eyes while he reads out The Cat in the Hat. Sadly for Julie, Brian
tells her he didn't realise that she was a mum and that she'd be best off
without him. Julie's too dumbstruck to reply and goes home to Sean for a cry.
And
that's just about that for this week.
This
week's writers were Martin Allen, Peter Whalley, Simon Crowther, Damon
Rochefort and Chris Fewtrell. Find
out more about the Coronation
Street
writing team at:
