Coronation Street weekly updates

February 6, 2012

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.

Proving the spirit of Blanche Hunt lives on in the shape of a small boy with dark curly hair, little Simon plays a blinder this week. He tells Carla he hates her, as well as he might, and demands to know when mum Leanne's coming home. Peter tells him she's not coming back, which sets Simon off on another one, arms crossed, eyes stern and bottom lip trembling. Blanche would have been proud.

Eileen's desperate for a fella. Her fella Paul is desperate for a shoulder to cry on. And her fella Paul's wife is in desperate need of proper social care. It's a desperation situation, made worse when Paul's pipes burst. Paul and Lesley have nowhere to stay while their house is in a state of watery woe and so Eileen, poor desperate, lonely Eileen, invites them to come stay with her. She'll sort out Paul's pipes all right. As for Jason, he's turfed out of his room and goes to stay with Tina in her old flat.

And what's Tina doing in her old flat? She's moved out of Tyrone and Kirsty's house, unable to stand the horrid Kirsty. I'd have done the same thing, she's a nasty piece, Kirsty. So when Tommy spots Kirsty in town hugging another fella he tells Tyrone who assumes that his girlfriend is having a fling. He even wonders if the baby she's carrying is really his. Kirsty's upset and tells Tyrone she's not cheating on him, she was meeting her cousin to set up a Valentine surprise of a sports car for a day.

Another one without a Valentine is Jason after Rosie goes and moves to that London. He tells her he'll go with her but she wants to go alone. She's left Weatherfield to star in a reality TV show where she has to be single in order to compete for the hand of a rich, young bloke. This leaves a skint, young bloke called Jason alone on the Street with no one to play `Bedtime with the Beckhams' any more.

Unable to cope with the baby and the pressure of having to pay the rent at the bank, young Katy leaves the baby alone in the house. He's fine, this time, and she arrives home by the back door just as Chesney returns to the front, so Chesney's none the wiser, for now. It'll end in tears, just you wait and see.

It's Eva's birthday this week and St. Ella throws a back room bash in the pub. She lures in three generations of the Platt clan in the shape of Nick, Gail and Audrey and Gail hits the wine to become quite the giddy kipper. It's a lovely comic scene, even if Stella was in it, made better when Gail and St. Ella turn up wearing the same blouse. "And I'd just like to point out that I bought this shirt before it went in the sale," says Gail.

It could be the last time Gail gets tiddly on the wine though after she and Audrey have their blood pressure taken by Doctor Matt. Mind you, I'm sure Gail's BP went skywards when Dr Matt told her to roll up her sleeve. She's not had much male company in a while, has our Gail. Anyway, Doctor Matt tells the two ladies that their BP is too high and encourages them to do gentle exercise: "That's do-able" they think, and to lay off the booze: "Oh."

Roy's not best pleased with his mum after she seems to support Milton's plan of opening the Beef Encouter restaurant despite Roy's objections. But after Sylvia has a think on, she remembers the help and support Roy and Hayley have shown her and knows she can't go along with Milton and his daft plan.

Elsewhere this week, Julie is over the moon to discover she's with child, has a bun in the oven, is in the pudding club, and is going to be a mum. Brian's gob-smacked and we viewers are confused because we've all just watched a lovely scene where Brian tells Ken he's had the snip.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, you can sign up to get these Corrie weekly updates by email at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/corrieweeks

This week's writers were Peter Whalley, Damon Rochefort and Jonathan Harvey. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

Glenda Young
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Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

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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And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

The vultures are circling around Frank Foster's head because he's getting killed off next week. Which means this week all the usual suspects are being lined up and given motives for knocking off freaky Frank. I suggest it was Sally in the dark with the candlestick when she finds out Frank's having a fling with Jenny Sumner. Or could it be Peter Barlow in the bookies with a dagger when he finds out Frank's reported Barlow's Bookies for fraud after Peter refused to pay out on Karl's betting slip. Or maybe it's Miss Carla Scarlett with the gun that does Frank in for being a beast. Or Prof Kevin Webster who plum goes and kills him in the garage with the spanner. And it can't be Mrs Peacock because Corrie killed her off. Your guess is as good as mine but if I was making a bet at Barlow's Bookies, my money would be on Frank's mum Anne.

Now that Carla and Peter (CarPet)'s relationship is out in the open, their life takes on the mundane, everyday tasks that need doing and in Carla's case, this means taking care of little Simon. She takes to motherhood as well as a duck takes to train driving, and in this particular duck's case, he does not drive that train very well. Carla's a bit tipsy from an afternoon tipple when she goes to pick up Simon from school and he wants nowt to do with this new woman in his dad's life. So Carla drags Simon away from the school gate by pulling on his arm. He tells Leanne and Peter that Carla's hit him but eventually he has to come clean.

Over at Steve and Tracy's house, Steve tells his missus he's moving out to live alone in the Streetcars flat. Tracy assumes this means she's getting No. 13 all to herself but she's assumed wrong when Steve moves the wonderful Beth and her even more wonderful son Craig in the house with her. Beth sets her sights on Steve, thinking there's chemistry between them and Tracy does her best to encourage this, knowing full well that Steve will run a mile. Beth dolls herself up, lays the charm on as thick as her make-up and does her best to seduce Steve when they're alone in the house. Steve's terrified but in a wonderful comic scene he manages to wriggle free, this time any road. Beth's an excellent addition to Coronation Street and her ever-silent, ever-eating son Craig, played by young actor Colson Smith, is comedy gold. And all this with Craig's pet rat, Darryl too.

The stress of new motherhood forced Katy into running away last week and this week she meets up with sister Izzy in a park. There's talk of their mum who left them when they were kids and Katy's afraid she'll end up just like her. Izzy assures her she won't and lends a supportive hand, enough to get Katy to return to Ches and the babe. Now that post-maternal laundry has been aired, washed and dried, Anna and Owen do their best to help Katy and Chesney by looking after baby Joseph. Owen hopes this will get him back into Anna's good books and her good pants, but Anna's more steely that that. Although even her heart must have melted just a little when Owen built a fairy grotto around the garden pond for little Fay(e).

Pointless story of the week was Tommy going on a date with the blonde bimbo from last week. It's all a ploy to get Tommy and Tina together, which let's face it, I hope happens because that boy needs a storyline as much as a duck needs a new train to drive.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, sign up to get these spam-free Corrie weekly updates by email at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/corrieweeks/

This week's writers were Ellen Taylor, Peter Whalley, David Lane, Chris Fewtrell and Simon Crowther. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:

http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

Glenda Young
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Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com