August 1, 2011
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Street
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Tracy tempts Steve
to tea with a Freshco's finest quiche. I'd have been there meself if I'd have
known she was serving one of those. She shoos Ken and Deirdre to the Bistro
for a meal and settles down to a cosy family tea with Amy and Steve for some
banter over the Barlow table. And then before you know it, it's snogtastic and
then it's the morning after the night before. "Mission-ary accomplished!"sings
Tracy to her mum as
a whole nation of Corrie fans barfed into their barms. Steve tries and fails
to sneak out quietly and falls prey to clingy, needy
Tracy. Showing a
pair of balls we never thought he had, he tells Tracy he wants nowt to do with
her which huffs her up, as you can imagine and she storms off back to that
London with little Amy in a taxi. Give her nine months and I bet she comes
back with Amy and another little present for Steve. As Lloyd told Steve: "Play with fire,
you get your fingers burned. Sleep with fire, you get
yer…"Ahem!
Meanwhile, Becky and Clarkey
have split up. "I would like to put a flea in his ear,"says a sympathetic
Roy. She speaks to Steve about him sleeping
with Tracy as little Amy
spilled the beans to her about daddy sleeping over. Mr and Mrs Mc agree to move on,
separate and go their own ways. Much like my bosom in a bad bra I once
had. Anyway, Becky then applies
for, and gets, a bar job at Nick's Bistro.
Elsewhere, Doc Carter refers
Gary to see a
psychiatrist. He should also do the same for his mother as it looks like she's
falling for Owen after he takes her and FAYe to the flicks. Am I the only
person left in the world who calls them flicks? I can't be, can
I?
Love's in the air, once again,
for star crossed lovers, Brian and Julie after Brian returns Dylan's cardigan
to Coronation
Street and bumps into
Julie. He tells her he's free of his missus now and they agree on a date.
Also loved up are Audrey and
Marc and just when you thought that the goddess that is the fragrant Mrs
Roberts couldn't get any better, she just goes and does. Marc asks her to attend a LGBT event
with him as Marcia and at first she's not sure, but she says yes. Afterwards
they head for a hotel bar for a drink where Marcia gets a bit of stick from
two fellas and it's Audrey who defends him, in a wonderful scene. "When I want
your opinion, I'll bob yer a text,"she tells one of them before throwing red
wine over them both. Go on there,
Audrey.
Over at the Alahan's, Amber
upsets everyone by staying out all night with Tommy Duckworth and revealing
that she's been kicked out of Uni.
Dev's head's spinning trying to make sense of it all.
And finally this week, David
and Gail convince Kylie she can look after little Max and she decides to go
for custody of her son. It's a
good storyline, acted well, I'm quite enjoying this one. Paula Lane as Kylie
is a cracking little actress and I just hope they don't do what they did with
her on-screen sister Becky and shove her down our throats for the next few
months so that by the time Christmas comes we'll all be sick of the sight.
And
that's just about that for this week.
This
week's writers were Mark Wadlow, Carmel Morgan, Jonathan Harvey, Damon
Rochefort and Ellen Taylor.
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out more about the Coronation
Street
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Glenda Young
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Don't
forget! Fat Brenda's one-man show at the Harrogate Theatre,
Yorkshire in April 2012.
Full details are here
Aug 8,
2011
Greetings
and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Without any further ado,
here we go with this week's Coronation
Street update.
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It’s all change this week on
Coronation Street as Dev the diplomat kicks Tina out of the shop flat so that
daughter Amber can move in. Dev thinks he’ll be able to keep a watchful eye on
Amber but he’s going to need eyes in the back of his Dev-head if he wants to
keep track. And is it just me, or
does anything else think that Amber has changed, and not for the better? I
liked the chirpy, cheeky little madam of an Amber that we used to have, not
this stroppy cow that’s flirting with everyone from Tommy Duckworth to
Sian. And so with nowhere
to live, Tina moves in with Tommy and Tyrone. There’s a dull storyline with
Tommy double dating Tina and Amber but that boy Tommy’s so wooden I won’t
press on with this because I just might fall aslee… zzzz.. .
Over at the Bistro, Becky starts
work as a waitress and loses her cool with the customers when David and Kylie
come in to eat. Then she shoves it to Steve who brings in a date to wind Becky
up. Steve’s date’s called Beth, she’s an old flame from years ago, someone he
went out with just the once (and you can see why). Beth brings with her son Craig, who’s
Corrie comedy gold. He doesn’t say a word, just stares and sucks on his
Coca-Cola straw. He needs to come
back, he was that good. Anyway, Becky gets the sack and as there’s no one else
to help, Gail gets the job of waitress for a night. She fawns all over the
restaurant reviewer from the Weatherfield Gazette. "My name’s Gail and I’ll be your
waitress this evening," she curtsies at him before dropping a false Gail nail
into his pasta dish.
Meanwhile in the salon, it’s
Happy Hardcore Monday as David and Kylie take over for the day when Audrey takes Monday off. I can’t see
the Renshaw Twins being very happy with Happy Hardcore, can you? Anyway, Kylie offers flakey-reiki,
upsets Rita and Betty, puts Julie in agony and word gets back to Audrey, as
you hoped it would. It’s Gail who goes round to Audrey’s to share the story of
shame from the salon but Audrey’s got her hands full painting Marc’s nails and
putting on his make-up to transform him into Marcia. So to stop Gail finding out that
Marc’s got a face full of slap, he throws himself into a white chocolate
gateau and covers his face with cream. Gail doesn’t seem to think anything’s
wrong, takes the explanation that Marc’s wearing a face-pack and dawdles off
back home with Marc and her mother’s secret kept safe.
Elsewhere, in one of those
classic soap moments, Chris starts crying and shouting at anyone who’ll
listen: "I’ve got a brain tumour!".
We can only hope his end will be swift, he’s been a waste of space
since he first turned up.
In other news, Fred Elliott’s
butcher shop now has a For Sale sign up outside. And at Streetcars, Fat Brenda
rings in sick with the sound of seagulls in the background. “She’s on the beach with a bag of
chips,” says Lloyd. Steve can only agree.
And that's just about that for this week.
This week's writers were John Kerr, Joe Turner, Jayne Hollinson and Jonathan
Harvey.
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out more about the Coronation
Street
writing team at:
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Glenda Young
--
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Don't forget! Fat Brenda's one-man show at the
Harrogate Theatre, Yorkshire in April 2012.
Full details are
here
August 15
2011
Greetings
and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Without any further ado,
here we go with this week's Coronation
Street update.
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It's all going off in the salon this week and Audrey's
had enough. What with Kylie's fakey reiki she's doing her customers' heads in,
and putting their noses decidedly out. Audrey decides to tighten the reins,
books David on a business training course and puts Kylie back on nails where
she can do least harm.
Over at the Rovers, it's Stella's birthday and Leanne
delivers a card, which she gives to Tina who passes it to Eva who rips it up
and chucks it away. Stella strops at Leanne for not giving her a card and then
blames Eva for being a mardy cow when she finds out the truth. Stella's too
brittle for my liking, I'm not warming to her just yet. And was Corrie deliberately playing
"Isn't She Lovely?" on the Rovers jukebox when Stella came on screen, hoping
it'd help us win our struggle to warm to the new Rovers
landlady?
Meanwhile, Julie goes on her date with Brian. Wearing a gorgeous
red and black dress (available here: http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2011/08/get-look-julie-carps-red-and-black.html ) Julie surrenders herself to love in the shape of Mr
Packham. "I'm offering you the full English, here!" Unfortunately for Julie, nerves get in
the way and she has a few drinks before the date, and then a few more. And one
for the road and then another, just in case. And by the time the two of them
are nibbling at Nick's bistro Julie's drunk and jealous of Brian flirting with
Eva and Julie's date of fate goes a bit Pete
Tong.
Elsewhere this week, Chris and his brain tumour move
into Lloyd and Cheryl's house. With nowhere else to go and no one to look
after him, Lloyd does the (far too) decent thing and allows his partner's
bully-boy, wife-beating fella to move in while Maria bleats across the cobbles
as another of her men decide to die. Mind you, it's got to be preferable to
living with her, she doesn't half go on about nowt. Liam died. Tony Gordon
died. And now Chris will die too. She's the kiss of death, that Maria one.
In the pub, Frank gets down on one knee and proposes
to Carla with a mahoosive ring
and a smirk on his face. Carla's less than impressed. "This is a farce," she
snarls at him. "Get up!" And get
up he does, determined to find out why Carla's turned him down so when he
hears from Dev that Carla's been arguing with Peter in the shop, he knows that
Carla's still got the hots for Peter Barlow and that's why she turned his
proposal down. When he puts all this to Carla, she denies everything, even
though it's true, and agrees to marry Frank, saying it's him that she loves,
even though it's not.
And finally this week, Fat Brenda's gone to Zumba, which apparently
is a dance class, and not an island off the coast of Tenerefee, which I thought it was.
And that's just about that for this week.
This
week's writers were David
Lane,
Mark Burt, Martin Allen, Jan McVerry and Peter Whalley.
Find
out more about the Coronation
Street
writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
--
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com
Don't forget! Fat Brenda's
one-man show at the Harrogate Theatre, Yorkshire in April 2012.
Full
details are here
Aug 22, 2011
Greetings
and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update, written as I celebrate my
birthday today. After writing the update and posting it to th'internet, I'm
off out for birthday cake with my family, then a long walk on the beach with my
lovely man followed by a meal out tonight. Corrie weekly update readers who have
been with me for some years and have done the maths, will know I've reached
21, again. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's
Coronation
Street update.
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There's
all sorts going on at Roy's
Rolls this week when Sylvia decides to take charge, and charge she does. She
charges for use of the ketchup, the salt, the pepper and the loo. The
customers are up in arms, complaining hither and thither but it's water off a
duck's back to Sylvia, she's intent on pushing up the profits and woe betide
anyone who gets in her way. And that person is Norris, who nicks the key to
the loo, demanding his right to a free pee. Well, Sylvia spots him and locks
him in there overnight. Oh dear, what can the matter be? Norris Cole is locked
in the lavatory. He was there from Friday to Monday and nobody knew he was
there. Except Sylvia did, you see. Mary's fretting about Norris' whereabouts,
convinced he's been kidnapped by Al Qaeda and just when she's wondering which
one of the Suchet brothers will play him in the film of his life, Sylvia
unlocks the door to the lavvy and Norris is free. Well, I tell you, Mary is
Not Best Pleased and calls a council of war with Emily and Dennis to demand
that Norris is given compensation for his night in the netty. It's agreed that
Norris, Mary, Emily and Dennis will be given a slap-up banquet at Roy's and
that Sylvia will play waitress, as an apology for her behaviour. And while Sylvia serves up the food,
she does not and will not say that she's sorry. She does give a wry smile to Dennis
though, she's got her eye on him.
In prison, Fiz grasses up the drug dealer and gets
herself beaten up for being a grass.
I don't understand this. Fiz wouldn't grass up her husband who was
going round murdering people but suddenly, she's banged up with a bunch of
no-hopers and she's grassing them up left, right and centre. Mind you, she
does get a place in the mother and baby unit in exchange for the information
on the drugs runner she's given to the Guv'nor (played by Norma from
Shameless).
Julie and Brian finally get together after Eileen and
Dennis set them up to meet once again. "You need to be proactive," Marcus says
to Julie after she moans about being single. "I'm a woman, Marcus, not a
yoghurt!" she replies, in some wonderful dialogue from writer Carmel Morgan.
Julie's over the moon to be back
with Brian and he (and these are his words, not mine) tell Julie he can't wait
to get his sausage fingers around her nimble waist.
Elsewhere this week, Audrey asks Marc to move in with
her and he says yes. Of course he says yes, he's onto a good thing with the
goddess that is the fragrant Mrs Roberts but it seems to me that she's getting
the short end of the stick once again.
Meanwhile, Gail goes all guns blazing after Kylie as
David's away and Kylie's flirting with some fella in the pub. When Kylie refuses to come home and
leave the bloke in the pub, Gail locks her errant daughter in law out of the
house.
And finally this week, Frank does his best to get
Carla and Leanne back on talking terms instead of trying to rip each other to
shreds on the Street. It kind of
works, but when Carla and Leanne give each other a girly hug, Carla gives
Peter a look behind Leanne's back, yes, that kind of look. Ooh, it's all going
to go so horribly wrong, I can just feel it.
Right,
I'm off to celebrate my birthday, see you next week.
This week's writers were Chris Fewtrell, Simon Crowther and Carmel
Morgan.
Find
out more about the Coronation
Street
writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
--
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com
Don't forget! Fat Brenda's one-man show at the Harrogate Theatre,
Yorkshire in April 2012. Full
details are here
Aug 29, 2011
Greetings
and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. And so, without any
further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation
Street update.
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There's
been some wonderful scenes in Corrie this week, it really is cracking on with
some fantastic dialogue and strong acting performances from cast old and
new. The strongest story for me
was Kylie spotting Audrey out with Marc in full Marcia mode and filming the
two of them on her phone. Kylie then tried to blackmail Audrey into giving her
the job back at the salon but it all backfired on poor Audrey when Marc
decided to come out of his designer closet to Audrey's closest mates in the
Rovers Return. Audrey was mortified. Gail was speechless. Sally went all Daily
Mail and Marc knew he'd made a very big mistake when Audrey dumped him later,
telling him his cross dressing was all a bit much. Gail then kicked Kylie for upsetting
Audrey and when David returned from his hairdressing course, it all kicks off
in the Platts just like on Jeremy Kyle. "I've just made a fool of myself
again," cries Audrey to Gail over losing her lovely, lovely Marc. Well it's not the first time, and it
wont be the last.
Meanwhile, Fiz is in a tizz in priz when the girls call her a grass,
break into her new room at the mother and baby unit and threaten little Hope.
Tyrone visits Fiz and she tells him about the drugs coming into the prison so
Tyrone follows the dealer out onto the streets, determined he won't let his
friend Fiz be bullied inside.
Dr
Carter tries out his bedside manner on Tina as the two of them swap tips on
looking lovely, having shiny hair and brilliant white teeth. Tommy is
officially not best pleased.
Katy and
Chesney have their baby scan at the hospital and Owen goes along, because he
hates not to be sticking his oar in somewhere. He does however ask the
hospital if there's a chance that Katy's baby could be born with the same
condition that Izzy has, something that Katy had considered but Owen forces
her to think about seriously.
Speaking
of Owen, he's set his cap at Anna now that Eddie's gone abroad and she agrees
to a night in the pub with him. But FAYe has other ideas, she wants Anna to
herself and so she nicks Owen's phone and sends Anna a text to tell her he
wants nowt to do with her any more. Gary puts the pieces together, Anan finds
out what FAYe has gone and done and she sends her to bed without any
tea.
Right,
I'm off , see you next week.
This week's writers were Julie Jones, Jonathan Harvey and John
Kerr.
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out more about the Coronation
Street
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