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Corrie weekly updates from 1995 Coronation Street Books by Glenda Young Please donate to help Corrie Weekly Updates to survive October 3 2020 Corrie weekly updates from 1995 Glenda Young, Author of Historical Novels with Headline
Please donate so that the Corrie Weekly Updates can survive. Greetings and welcome to another week of words from Weatherfield. It’s been another strange old week in Weatherfield with a terrible storyline that had me face-palming with shock and awe (and not in a good way). But it’s also had some wonderful scenes with Carla in them and so it’s definitely been a week of two halves. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update. Best scenes by far this week were played by Alison King as Queen Carla of the cobbles. She’s getting her mojo back and after an argument with Peter, they make up the old fashioned way and Peter’s perfectly cooked dinner has to wait until they’re friends again. Carla was on fire this week, with some excellent dialogue written for her by Owen Lloyd-Fox on Wednesday night. She tears a strip off Adam in the solicitor’s office when she finds out he’s been shagging an ex-girlfriend after he’s declared undying love to Sarah and Sarah thinks there’s a chance of getting back with Adam. Carla’s so incensed by Adam’s bad behaviour that she calls him a slut and chucks Imran’s favourite stapler at his head. It was a wonderful scene, more please. Over at Underworld, Carla proves supportive to Sarah who has to present their new and rather dull knicker designs to a buyer who swans in. But while Sarah rushes home for the costings she’d forgotten and Carla stalls the buyer outside of Underworld, inside Nina works her design magic on the drawings of the drawers and the buyer is impressed by what he sees. Carla gives Nina freelance work at the factory as a designer. Good one! Sex-worker Nicky disappears this week after Daniel gives her a wad of cash he’s nicked from Geoff. Then she returns to give Daniel back half of the money, saying she doesn’t need it all. Geoff sees this exchange and warns Daniel that he knows he stole his cash. Daniel offers to pay Geoff his cash back and all is well again. I’m left scratching my head, unsure what this was all for, and why Geoff walks around with five grand in his pocket in the first place. At the Bailey house, things took a turn for the worse. I mean, it was terrible, the worst kind of storyline. You might have liked it, but it wasn’t for me. After months of Michael begging Grace to take him back so that he can be father to their daughter Tianna, he proposes to Grace. She turns him down flat and says she’s going to live in Spain the very next day so he kidnaps Tianna to stop Grace from leaving. Michael’s caught and hauled into the cop shop where he’s put through a psychiatric assessment because the cops think Michael’s deluded when he calls Tianna his daughter. Well, it turns out that not only is Tianna not his daughter, but she’s not even Grace’s daughter. Grace is Tianna’s nanny and has stolen the child and at this point I covered my eyes with my hands and couldn’t look at the screen and everything, everything, everything, went wrong in that moment for me. I whizzed and fast forwarded through every Michael scene after that so I can’t tell you what happened except that I saw Grace take out a pregnancy kit from her handbag which suggests she’s probably pregnant to Michael after all so he could have had his own child with Grace. It was beyond believable, totally ridiculous and what little warmth and empathy I was beginning to feel for the Bailey family was lost. Over in the Kate Oates memorial ward at Weatherfield General Hospital, Leanne’s in a state, Steve’s furious and Tracy’s biting her words back when Steve suggests she sells the florist shop to pay for Oliver’s care in Germany. But the doctor gives Leanne and Steve bad news. Even if Oliver is sent to Germany, there isn’t much that can be done to save his little life. Leanne refuses to believe what she’s hearing, in denial still. And as for Nick? While he’s wanting to support Leanne, he’s got more on his mind when he meets his real son, Sam. What an amazing little actor the kid who plays Sam is. Sam wants to be an astrophysicist and has the gift of the gab, charming the viewers as much as he charms Nick. Oh, it’s a complicated storyline and no mistake, and one I’m starting to warm to now that Sam has turned up. Leanne’s son is dying, Nick’s son is arriving and Toyah’s dream of becoming a foster mother is put on the backburner while Leanne goes through hell. Elsewhere this week, some nice scenes between Billy and Paul. Billy’s distracted with thoughts of finding Todd and he doesn’t give Paul the attention he deserves. So when Paul tells Billy he’s started volunteering work on a helpline to help abused youngsters, Billy tells him he’s proud of him. But still, you can see Billy’s mind is elsewhere and Todd-shaped. And finally, the wedding that never was will take place next week. Tim tells Sally that when he said he was going to cancel their wedding, he actually didn’t and so if she’d still like to become Mrs Metcalfe, she can do so in two days’ time. Sally agrees and it’s all systems go for a wedding we’ll see on screen next week – but will Geoff be invited? And that’s just about that for this week. Remember, you can sign up to get these Corrie weekly updates by email at http://www.corrie.net/updates/weekly/subscribe.htm This week’s writers were Cameron McAllister and John Kerr (Monday); Owen Lloyd-Fox (Wednesday) and Chris Fewtrell (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online Glenda Young --
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