It's the aftermath of Frank's
rape trial this week. With Leanne away visiting their Toyah, Peter
declares his love for Carla to Deirdre and his dad. Little Simon
takes out his hurt and frustration over losing Leanne by acting up
at school and he tells a teacher to stick a book ?where the sun
don't shine?. And so the spirit of Blanche lives on. He
also runs around the Barlow house screaming. Little Amy follows
suit, because when you're a kid, that's exactly what you do. And if
I lived in that house, I'd run around screaming too.
At Roy's Rolls Milton eyes up
Roy's till rolls and suggests they go into partnership to open a
string of railway-themed restaurants called Beef Encounter.
But not even Milton's fancy-pants computer presentation complete
with steam train noises and the suggestion that staff could dress up
as signalmen, can turn Roy's head. He turns Milton's offer down
flat, much to Sylvia's chagrin and he choo-choo-chooses to run Roy's
Rolls just as he's always done.
Rosie's heading for life as a
reality TV star after her pics are spotted in the Weatherfield
Gazette and she gets a call from her agent to say she's wanted for a
trial for Channel Totty-tv or something. This is after Rosie gets
sacked from the Council as the face of the road safety campaign when
she and Jason get frisky in his van and it hits another car on a
road. Jason also gets sacked when Owen finds out he was out in
the van when he shouldn't have been and that he's crashed it too.
Over at Underworld, freaky Frank
Foster offers Carla an offer she's tempted to take. He wants
the whole factory back and moves his workforce and mum in. Knowing
it's unworkable, Carla thinks seriously about accepting Frank's
offer for her share of the factory, even if it is insultingly low.
But when she goes to tell him she'll sell, Frank's nasty little
smirks and comments are too much to bear and she tells him to stick
his knicker factory offer where the gusset don't shine.
Back at the flat, Carla's now got
hot and cold running man around the place when Carla and Peter, or
as I like to call them by their celebrity name, CarPet, play house,
leaving little Simon with Ken and Deirdre, or as I like to call them
by their celebrity name, Ken and Deirdre. Making breakfast for
Carla, there was a lovely line from Peter, a variation on the old
"How do you like your eggs in the morning?" chat up line: "Don't you
keep your eggs in the fridge?" Oh yes, Carla's eggs are very
well chilled.
At No. 13 Steve comes up with a
plan so that he and Tracy can live under the same roof while living
apart. He gets Owen to build a wall to convert the house into two
flats. It's illegal of course but good fun to watch. Tracy's
living upstairs and Steve's down. He's very down when Tracy turns
off the heating for the whole house but it's only because Steve had
unplugged the lecky to stop Tracy playing her tapes really loudly
upstairs. Some habits die hard.
And finally, this week's "In The
Back with Stella" award goes to Leanne and Peter who both succumbed
to Saint Stella's siren call go through to the back. I reckon
that's where Gail's dad Ted Page is, and the kebab shop, we've not
seen either for months.
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 Jayne
Hollinson, Ellen Taylor, Mark Wadlow, Debbie Oates and David
Lane. 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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