Coronation
Street Weekly Update, the week before Christmas
2012
I’ll start with an apology for the
lateness of the update this week. This is due to spending time
visiting hospital over the last few weeks, more than any
person would like to do, at this time of year or any
other. With
Christmas and New Year coming up, the weekly updates might
come atcha at odd times, but have no doubt, you’ll get them, I
just don’t know when.
This week in Corrie it’s been
harrowing to watch and one scene had himself and me sat on the
sofa, gobsmacked, unable to speak, with tears in our eyes. You
can probably guess it’s Kirsty and Tyrone, with the harshest
scenes ever this week as Kirsty slammed a door onto Tyrone’s
arm and hand. It
was awful. It’s
hard to watch; it must be difficult to act but if it helps
just one person seek support for the same sort of abuse
they’re facing at home, then the storyline has done its
job.
This week was Tyrone’s
30th birthday and Kirsty arranged a surprise party
he didn’t want, as he grows close to Fiz who determines to
help her mate Ty as he faces up to marrying Kirsty so he can
get parental rights over Ruby. It’s a nice plan, but
somehow I can’t see it being that easy, not in the world of
soap.
Onto brighter things now, so let’s
talk about Jason.
Ok, so perhaps things are not quite that bright. After
lusting after Stella in the pub, Jason and Stella are now
officially an item, stepping out together and sliding under
bed sheets. At
least I think that’s what they were doing when they headed to
bed. Stella might have taken Jason upstairs to read him a
story and tuck him in, who knows? Eileen’s not happy, as
you’d expect.
Carla heads back to LA this week
leaving someone behind who looks like Peter Barlow. He talks
like Peter Barlow, he walks like Peter Barlow but this new
Peter Barlow is reasoned and calm, Californian and laid-back,
relaxed and happy to play the long game in getting back with
Leanne. He starts to get close again to little Simon, who’s
happy to have his dad back. Nick notices Leanne growing close
to Peter and he gets a face on him like a wet weekend in
Wigan.
Over at Underworld, the dullest
man in soap, Rob Donovan, decides to buy the factory when
Carla tells him she wants to sell up. Rob hasn’t got the
cash so he phones a few dodgy friends to see if they want a
piece of pants action.
Dennis and the Lollipoperatives
wage war on Streetcars this week by marching on the cobbles in
protest at Steve McDonald’s claim that Dennis had been nasty
to the Bessie Street kids. Faced with an army of
lollipop men and women, Steve admits he was lying and all is
well again. There was a lovely line from Dennis this week
written by Jonathan Harvey, repeating Elsie Tanner’s famous
words: “As me mother used to say, I’m just about ready for the
knacker yard.”
Over at Roy’s Rolls, Roy struggles
to cope with Hayley away. I miss Hayley, do you? He takes on Fiz who
needs to work after being sacked at
Underworld.
Meanwhile, Kirk and Chesney buy a
load of stolen turkeys from Sweaty Betty who gets put away by
the coppers for dealing in stolen goods. This leaves Ches and
Kirk with a problem, do they sell stolen frozen birds and risk
being banged up in the big house for Christmas or do they
chuck all the turkeys into the canal? They plump for the
latter which is unfortunate as frozen turkeys don’t sink, they
float, but at least they get rid.
Having no turkeys to sell leaves
Kirk with no cash to buy Beth the necklace she’s set her heart
on, so he’s somewhat confused when the necklace turns up and
Beth thinks Kirk’s bought it for her. It’s young Craig who’s
bought it to ensure Kirk doesn’t end up looking bad, bless
him. More
loveliness for Beth, Craig and Kirk when Beth decides she and
Craig are moving into Maria’s flat with Kirk when the man who
looks like Peter Barlow tells her he wants her out of the flat
above the bookies.
I like this threesome together and I’m hoping for big
things for Beth and Kirk, like a lovely summer wedding in 2013
with Craig walking his mum down the
aisle.
And that's just about that for this week. Remember,
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This week's writers were Simon
Crowther, Jonathan Harvey, Jayne Hollinson, Peter Whalley,
Debbie Oates, Susan Oudot.
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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