Coronation Street weekly update - October 5 2014

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I’m really sorry that there was no update last week and with no prior warning either.  Life had a way of catching up and overtaking any writing I was planning to do last weekend, although it did involve a visit to the old Coronation Street set where I said my final farewell (you can read all about that here).   But I’m back at my computer now, wearing my weekly update hat and so without any further ado, here we go with this week’s words from Weatherfield and the Coronation Street Weekly Update.

The Square Dealers (remember them?) got a mention this week on Coronation Street when Yasmeen pointed out Sharif was away on a square jolly of a tour of highland whisky distilleries.  Although, as Yasmeen points out, what’s a Muslim man wanting to be doing that for, anyway? Well, it doesn’t matter to this fan. The fact that a nod was made to Dealing on the Square by a businessman of a certain age, put a smile on this fan’s face.  Yasmeen keeps busy this week trying to convert Fred’s old butcher shop into a community centre, I say community centre. I like the idea, in fact I like it a lot. And I also like Yasmeen, but she fair upset Emily this week when Emily put forward the idea of using the community centre as a base for the 1o’clock club.  Yasmeen’s got ideas grander than the 1o’clock club, she said. And by grander, she means younger, of course.

Sally’s not well this week, she’s full of cold and Tim does his best to look after her. But when Sally sends him to Dev’s shop with a shopping list, it’s apparent that Tim can’t read it. And it’s not because of Sally’s bad handwriting. It’s because Tim can’t read. How then he ever got in contact with daughter Faye over th’internet is a mystery to this fan and one that I hope Corrie explains.  Tim gets leaflets printed to promote his window cleaning round but panics after it’s pointed out that his ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ on his leaflets comes from cleaning Dirty Widows, not Windows.  Norris has palpitations behind the Kabin counter when he finds one of the leaflets stuffed through his letter box. Tim manages to rescue as many of the leaflets as he can, but not before his phone starts to ring off the hook, Sally takes one of the calls and gives short shrift to a pervy punter.

Kylie takes more of Max’s pills this week and then goes off in search of harder drugs in her old haunt. Amongst the breeze blocks in dog dirt city, Kylie meets up with her old mates Gemma and Macca and Callum, Max’s dad.   Only Eva knows what Kylie is up to spending time with her old mates in her old life. “You stole an actual bus?” Eva asks Kylie when she finds out the kind of crimes Kylie committed as a kid.  “It was only a single decker,” says Kylie and then she lies through her teeth to David about her whereabouts when she finally comes home.  Note that as the actresses who play Eva and Kylie are both pregnant in real life, there’s now lots of strategic placement of coats, handbags, cushions and much wearing of long floaty tops. 

Mary gets in the way of Julie and Dev sharing a bit of a moment together when she lets herself in and interrupts them in Dev’s kitchen.  Mary had been out to an organ recital with Roy where she wears a tie with piano keys printed on it.  “I got it from my old boyfriend, Conrad Taylor,” explains Mary about the tie. “And I still sometimes see him in town with his better half, Clive.”  Mary’s upset and jealous over Dev and Julie’s blossoming friendship and has a word with Dev. “All that talk of spirituality,” Mary moans to Dev about Julie, “She just wants to get her hands on your dhoti!”.  Dev takes Mary’s hands in his and tells her that under no circumstances does he have any romantic notions towards Julie. It’s news that takes Julie by surprise, as she hears it when she walks into Dev’s shop, and of course, we all know it’s also a bit of a lie. Dev and Julie could work, I really think they could.

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 Chris Fewtrell (Monday), Mark Wadlow (Monday), Jonathan Harvey (Wednesday), John Kerr (Friday) and Perrie Balthazar (Friday).  Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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Coronation Street Weekly Update, January 7 2013

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Greetings and welcome to the very first Coronation Street weekly update of the New Year. Wishing you all the best for 2013! May all your resolutions hold true and the hole in your shoe never let in too much rain. Not like mine do, anyway. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

Lewis ups his campaign to get his hands on Gail’s assets. He tells her he loves her, he kisses her, he snogs her, as the nation hides behind a cushion on our sofa. He brings in his mate Patrick who’s all talk about an Italian hotel job for Lewis but he tells Gail he can’t go and leave her, not now he’s found her, the one true love of his life. And Gail, she believes him, she falls for him, hook, line and sinker as Lewis reels Gail in with his every hook, lie and stinker.

Carla’s confused and wants to know what underhand work Rob’s up to in Underworld. She discovers he cooked the books so that the valuers would think there’s less money in knicker stitching than there actually is and so she sacks him on the spot. He then undercuts her in the underpants and nicks the knicker business from under her nose and behind her back. Carla’s left pondering on pants and wonders what’s going on in gussets as Rob moves above his station into a flat in Victoria Court.

Nick and Leanne, it’s fair to say, are still at odds after the wedding fiasco at Christmas although this doesn’t stop Leanne from proposing again to Nick. Eva overhears this in the back room of the pub and tells Peter who lets it be known to Nick that he knows what Leanne’s only gone and done. 

It’s too much for Nick to have everyone going on at him (I know how he feels) and in a fit of rage, after a fight with Nick in the bookies, he throws everyone out of the Bistro and smashes the place up before having a little cry by the bottled beer. I think we all need one of them every now and then, a little cry by the bottled beer.

Fiz collapses after being poisoned by carbon monoxide gas from the faulty boiler and she’s rushed to th’ospickle where it’s touch and go for about, ooh, five minutes before she makes a full recovery and returns home. 

Does Corrie never learn from its own mistakes when Rita had this happen to her way back in the day?  With Rita it was a faulty gas fire but with Fiz it was the boiler on the blink, which Tyrone fixed, but they can’t admit it was Tyrone otherwise Kirsty will find out and then they’ll have another poisonous boiler to deal with. So Tommy takes the blame for fixing the faulty boiler and poisoning Fiz and he gets a grilling from the men in suits from Health and Safety who threaten him with a custodial sentence but as this is soap, they don’t follow through. Still though, it makes you think. Have you checked your boiler lately?

And finally this week, Sophie and Jenna kiss on the sofa after admitting they like, really like each other, despite Jenna having reservations about what this relationship could do to her career if her bosses find out.  Which of course you know they will, this is soap after all, especially when Kevin determines to dob Jenna in.

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 John Kerr, Damon Rochefort, Chris Fewtrell, Martin Allen and Julie Jones.  Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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Coronation Street weekly update, May 27 2013

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Th’update’s coming atcha a little earlier than normal this week. Corrie’s got one of their Big Weeks going on, where it’s on every night and at a later time than normal.  I’ll be tucked up with my Horlicks by the time it finishes tonight and as it’s Bank Holiday today and I’m off work with time on my hands, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

Roy’s taking the news of his dad’s death rather bad. He’s internalising everything and shining up anything in the café that needs shining and some things that don’t. He’s polishing stuff that has had the life polished out of it already. Once that’s all done he takes to sweeping the Street and ticking off young Craig for littering the cobbles.  Hayley keeps harping on to her husband and Sylvia warns her to leave well alone, she knows what her son’s like, but Hayley keeps trying to make Roy see sense. He will, in time, I’m sure. He just needs to be left alone, for now.

Speaking of Craig, we saw him this week after too long an absence. But the poor little sausage was looking a little glum and distracted when we spied him at the bus stop. Let’s hope that glum and distracted look signifies the start of a storyline for young Craig-me-laddo as he’s brilliant, he is.

And now Craig’s cousin’s on the cobbles too - and she goes out on a date with Chesney this week. He’s trying to grow up and be brave having to face Katy and Ryan across the Street every day, but he’s struggling. Anyway, he takes Sinead on a date to the Bistro only to sit directly opposite Katy and Ryan.  I can’t have been the only Corrie fan to be shouting at the TV: “Chesney! Just move!”

Over at Underworld, Carla takes Rob back on after his stint at the bookies. She tells him he’s now Head of Distribution and sends him packing.  He’s not best pleased to be working in packing and when he finds out that Tracy has to pick up an order of twenty thousand pounds worth of silk, he hits on a plan.  Tracy’s in on the deal as she hands over the silk to a dodgy geezer Rob knows and then gives herself a split lip and torn top so that it looks like she’s been robbed.  Carla knows summat’s up when Tracy and Rob spin her a yarn about the silk, and it’s good fun to watch as Tracy’s yarn slowly, and silkily unravels.  At first though Carla wasn’t sure if Tracy was daft enough to give herself a split lip but Peter soon put her straight - this is the same Tracy Barlow who once ironed her own arm.

Tina goes into labour two months early this week after she and Gary argue in the back yard at the pub.  And sadly for Izzy, she finds out from overhearing their argument that Gary made a pass at Tina. Still, going into labour two months early means two less months we fans have to endure this surrogacy lark.

And finally, I’d have loved to have said this was the big story of the week but not being a Stella fan, I can’t.  The Rovers reopened. It looks a little different, it looks a little bigger. Betty’s picture is back on the wall after Rita printed it out and had it framed in the supermarket. The dartboard’s back, there’s a new paper rack by the bar and no official opening, the regulars just queued up and walked in.  New pub, new dartboard, same Stella, what a shame.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, you can sign up to receive these Corrie weekly updates.

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

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Coronation Street weekly update - Tyrone's out, Sylvia's spaced out

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Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update.  Find out more about the Coronation Street Weekly Updates and why they've been written for th'internet since 1995 at http://www.corrie.net/updates/weekly A million thanks go to Karen Jankel and Richard Whitbread for the last two weeks of Coronation Street weekly updates while I was away on my jollies.  And so without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

Tyrone’s free from his trial and torment after crazy Kirsty crashes the courtroom with baby Ruby in her arms as Tyrone takes the stand. “He’s not a monster!” She tells a packed court room “I am!” The trial’s declared null and void and Kirsty’s held for perjury and perverting the course of justice. Back home, Tyrone’s nervous about facing those on the Street he once thought of as friends. those who believed Kirsty’s word over his.  Ooh, there’s a lot a lot of saying sorry to do, and Julie and Eileen try to do it first.  It takes a gentle nudge from Roy to ‘turn a page in the book of life’ to get Tyrone to think on about forgiving and forgetting.

Paul the fireman suffers the death of work colleague Toni worse than the death of his wife. Remember her? The one with Alzheimer’s Disease? The woman he was married to? The woman he’s forgot? And now he can’t sleep, he can’t eat, he’s having problems at work and he takes them all out on Eileen. I’d be having a word with myself if I were her and I’d chuck him and his hideous beige jacket out. 

At Roy’s Rolls, Sylvia starts eating cannabis brownies after Stan from the 1o’clock club gets her hooked. She tells him she’s eating the space cakes to relieve the pain in her wrist but as she’s the only one in Roy’s Rolls who knows what’s going on with the special cakes Stan brings in, she’s a little concerned when Anna tells her she’s just sold three of them – to Rita, Norris and Mary. Dennis manages to get the cakes back before they’re eaten, which was a shame as a bite of dope could well have shut Norris up.

St Ella’s released from th’ospickle and moves into Kevin’s after he supposedly moves in with Sally although he’s really been written out for a few months. Karl and St Ella grow close, blah blah blah and Jason’s not best pleased.   

Poor Sunita’s still lying in her bed with tubes all over her and she’ll die next week. Until then, Karl tries to pin the Rovers blaze on to her by dropping his keys into her hospital bedside unit where the cops conveniently find them and Sunita becomes suspect number one for setting the Rovers on fire.  My recent experience of someone close to me going into hospital included their belongings being inventoried on entry – and discharge.  I hope the Corrie writers have remembered this happens and then Karl will finally get collared for the blaze. 

And finally this week Chesney’s still in bits over Katy and Ryan and he deals with it the only way he knows how. He gets stonking drunk in the Rovers and tries to chat up Eva who tells him to come back when he’s a little more sober, older and taller. 

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 Jayne Hollinson, Susan Oudot, Damon Rochefort, Jonathan Harvey. Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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Coronation Street Weekly Update, October 17 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. I won’t be here next week with the update as I’m off to be wed as we’ve been living over the brush for over a decade and you know, let’s face it, I’m not getting any younger.  While I’m away next week your weekly update writer will be top man Richard Whitbread, who I can’t thank enough.

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

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There’s chaos in the comping world when Norris and Mary dream up slogans to enter a cough medicine competition.  Norris doesn’t like Mary’s poetic musings and she bins the piece of paper where she’s scribbled her thoughts, only for Sylvia in the café to pick it up and enter it in her own name. Roy isn’t best pleased at his mother’s dishonesty, neither are Mary and Norris when they found out what Sylvia’s gone and done.

Over at Underworld, Frank sends his mother in acting as his poxy proxy and she strips out the fixtures and fittings taking 40% of everything she and her hench mob can lay their nasty fingers on. This leaves Carla with nothing to work with and she lays off her staff.  There’s a wonderful scene when she sacks Sally. “But this job, it’s the only thing that’s, well, mine,” cries Sally with tears in her eyes.  

Anyway, Sally’s tears dry soon enough when Frank’s mum Anne poaches Sally and she sets to work for Frank. It’s another blow to Carla who’s already been beaten down by the cops for harassing Frank when all she did was go round there to complain about him nicking half the factory machines.

Meanwhile, Sally gets jiggy with Jeff and he starts staying overnight, much to Sophie and Kevin’s dismay. 

Eileen gets warm and cosy with fireman Paul and he stays the night at her place after a night on the sofa with the red wine. What she doesn’t know yet is that Marcus has spotted Paul in Frescho with another woman, a woman that he hugged and kissed and could well be his wife. 

Elsewhere, there’s cuddles on the cobbles when Matt takes Tina to a dinner dance and insists he takes her out to buy a posh frock. Tommy thinks Tina’s going to get sick of Matt and he hovers at her elbow’s edge, just in case she changes her mind about dating a dishy doctor and falls in lust with a greasy, thick, grease monkey instead. 

Also, Tyrone tells Kirsty that he’s falling fall her after revealing the truth about Molly, Kev and little baby Jack.  She seems like she’s got her head on the right way round, does Kirsty, but she and Tina keep having a dig at each other, putting Tyrone in the middle, where he never likes to be.

And that's just about that for this week. 

This week it was a good week for the lady writing team of Debbie Oates, Julie Jones, Jayne Hollinson with Damon Rochefort and Martin Allen.  Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:

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Coronation Street weekly update, May 31 2013

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Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Find out more about the Coronation Street Weekly Updates and why they've been written for th'internet since 1995 at http://www.corrie.net/updates/weekly

Hello everyone. For those of you who have been with me from the very start of writing these updates, you’ll know we’ve been together, week in, week out, for over 18 years.  I started writing these weekly updates back in 1995 for th’internet and they’ve usually, more or less, been emailed to you every Monday or Tuesday reporting the week’s events on the cobbles ending with the episodes on a Monday night. Well, 18 years is a long time for anyone to stick to a routine so I hope you’ll forgive me for changing things a little.  I’m now going to be writing and sending the weekly updates over a weekend covering the week’s events from Monday to Friday inclusive.  And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update

Baby Windass-McIntyre-possibly-Duckworth was born this week when Tina went into labour early in the Rovers Return. Fortunately for Tina she was rushed to hospital in time to deliver her premature baby boy in safety although he’s now spending time in a special baby unit.  And it was also fortunate for Stella that Tina got to hospital in time. Well, you wouldn’t want waters breaking all over the new fabrics in the refurbished pub, would you?  Anyway, Tina and Izzy are in tears at the sight of their new baby but Izzy tells Gary she wants nowt to do with him after she finds out he tried to kiss Tina on the soft furnishings the other week.  She even bans him from seeing the baby, but he sneaks in when Izzy’s not there and Tina lets Gary see his son.  It’s very intense and emotionally charged, and when Izzy arrives at th’ospickle to find Gary gazing at the baby, she chucks a mental and it’s left to Tina to step in to sort things out. She tells them to sort themselves out and bans them both from seeing the baby until they do so.  But as Izzy simmers with anger at Gary, he pleads to fix things with Izzy. “Fix it?” she yells at him “It’s not a poxy vase. It’s us. It’s my heart!”, But it’s Tina they should both be keeping an eye on as she starts developing a bond with her baby, their baby.

Sally’s been wonderful this week.  She gets tipsy in the Rovers, drinking alone and bemoaning the fact she hasn’t got a fella.  In fact she gets so tipsy that she tells Norris:  “You’re a silly little man. A nasty little elf. A nasty little bald elf.” Which is fair enough, I’d say, and then to Steve: “You’re a nice bald elf,” which is also pretty spot on. 

Jenna and Sophie help Sally create an online profile for an internet dating site and then go shopping with her for new clothes to help her create the persona she wants to project –  dynamic, mysterious and witty – rather than the way she’s currently perceived – beans meanz tea.

Over at Underworld, there’s stolen silk shenanigans going on. Rob and Tracy stole the silk from Carla last week and have it holed up in a lock-up.  Carla does some ringing around and finds out from (and I love this next bit for both the alliteration and the mention of my home city) Sandra at Saunders of Sunderland – that a woman has been on the phone to her offering some silk at a knock down price.  Carla tells Sandra to arrange a time and place to meet the woman, who is of course Tracy and Carla turns up instead when Rob’s expecting Sandra at Saunders of Sunderland’s Manchester rep. In exchange for not dobbing Rob into the cops, Carla tells her brother that she wants his shares of Underworld back. “Sign up or go down,” she growls, proving she’s got the size of balls that her brother can only dream of. So, not only has Rob fallen out with his sister, lost his job and his factory shares, he also gets short shrift from Deirdre when Tracy takes him home for a spot of tea and telly. Deirdre’s not best pleased when she finds out what’s going on. She tells Tracy: “Get him outta my house!” names him Flash Harry and calls him scum. I love Deirdre when she’s on fire like that.

And finally this week, Stella and Karl go to dinner at Dev’s. Stella thinks she’s being matey to a friend and a neighbour while Karl’s conscience tries, and fails, to give him a hard time over sharing a bottle of Freshco red with the husband of the woman he murdered in the Rovers fire.

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 Jayne Hollinson, John Kerr, Chris Fewtrell and Jan McVerry.  Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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Coronation Street Weekly Update, April 9 2012

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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.

Stella throws Karl out of the Rovers this week, tells him he’s shattered her lifelong dream of running the Rovers,  and then she takes him back again. That’s not a feisty, strong, Coronation Street woman, that’s just soft in the head. She chucks him out when she finds out he’s up to his neck in debt to the tune of twenty grand which he’s gambled away. He’s also playing away, sleeping with Sunita. While Dev and the kids are on their jollies in Spain, Sunita gets her jollies on the sofa with Karl.  The two of them are Billy-no-mates so they’ve got a lot in common. Anyway, Stella moans a bit, takes Karl back and he promises never to lie to her again while giving  the camera that Corrie classic over the shoulder look that says more than five pages of script.

There’s sad news for Tommy this week when he finds out his granddad Jeff Horton has died. The Hortons, you’ll remember, are the couple who brought Tommy up in Blackpool. Anyway, Tommy has a hard time dealing with his grief but copes by jumping into bed with Tina after she falls for 10 bunches of cheap flowers from Dev’s.  Then he offers to whisk Tina away on a round the world trip via Rosamunde Street after he finds out granddad Jeff left him twelve grand in his will.  And you know it won’t be long before that bit of news reaches Tommy’s dad RTereh.

Peter and Leanne’s relationship disintegrates further this week when Peter gets a letter from Leanne’s solicitor saying she’s going after custody of Simon.  The couple try mediation but end up bickering and Peter walks out. Then they try, courtesy of Carla who has suddenly turned into quite the peacekeeper, letting Simon spend time with Leanne. This has the required effect of little Simon repeating Leanne’s words back at the flat. “What’s a Black Widow?” he asks his dad and then he turns his face away with a smirk, knowing full well what he’s gone and said.

Carla’s got more on her mind than cheeky kids this week though, when Sally offers to buy Frank’s share of the factory when it comes up for sale. While Carla doesn’t need the aggro of working alongside Sally who’ll be all jumped up in her Marksies power suit, she does need the money so has to keep Sally on side, for now.

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 John Kerr, Joe Turner and Mark Burt. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:

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Coronation Street Weekly Update – the death of Deirdre Barlow

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Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street - 2015 official ITV tie-in book
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Norman Bates with a Briefcase, the Richard Hillman Story
A Perfect Duet, the diary of Roy and Hayley Cropper

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In all the years of writing the Corrie weekly updates I have only once before struggled with trying to condense a major storyline into a paragraph or two.  It was when Hayley died. And now I’m having trouble trying to give Deirdre Barlow the send-off she deserves wrapped up in a few words of a weekly update.  Deep breath … and here we go …
 

At No.1 Ken and Tracy prepare for Deirdre’s return on her 60 birthday. There’s a party planned in the Rovers, streamers hung and a cake bought. Ken’s in a suit and tie and Tracy’s having her hair done. There’s a knock at the door and it’s Bev Unwin, Deirdre’s friend she’s been staying with for the last few months. Ken expected Bev to be bringing Deirdre home with her but it’s sad news that Bev brings, the saddest news possible. Deirdre has died on her 60th birthday while sitting in Bev’s garden. It was a brain aneurysm …sudden, shocking. Bev hands over Deirdre’s glasses to Ken: “I didn’t know what to do with these,” she tells him. Neither does Ken. He takes them into the kitchen and sobs.
It’s been very emotional watching the episodes this week as news of Deirdre’s death filters around the Street. The cast’s emotions are plan to see, their eyes filling with real tears as they plan Deirdre’s funeral and talk about what could have been. Ken breaks down in the ginnel and it’s Steve who hugs him and walks him around the block. Tracy’s in bits but never loses her nasty edge, cutting Liz short when she offers to help.  Amy cuddles her mum when she finds out grandma Deirdre has died while Simon retreats into himself, trying not to let the upset of the news affect him too much. How much more bad news and people dying on him can this little lad take?  Emily sheds tears in the Rovers as Rita comforts her and Liz rings the bell in the Rovers to announce the sad news. As the Rovers regulars drink a toast to Deirdre in the pub, a gust of wind blows the door open, right on cue.  And then it’s time to plan the funeral. Tracy finds an old tin containing a letter from Deirdre outlining the kind of funeral she wants.  It’s to include red wine and Frescho’s best ham, Nina Simone singing ‘I’m feeling good’ and a short service so that smokers aren’t left gagging for a fag.

Elsewhere this week, all else pales into insignificance and the other storylines have felt nothing more than an intrusion into what should have been, in my opinion, centered exclusively on Deirdre and the Barlows.

We therefore had to suffer the tedium of Callum as Kylie tries to wind him up so that Sarah will see Callum for the comedian he is. It’s a plan that doesn’t work and Callum is left to torment us all another day, sadly.

Even Roy, who I adore, seemed at odds this week with the sadness of the Barlow household.  He helps Cathy start to declutter her house and it soon becomes clear that it’s going to be a very long and slow process indeed. She can’t be rushed, Roy knows that, but even Roy’s patience is starting to wear thin. 

But Roy’s got more on his mind when he returns to the café to find gambling and drinking going on at Roy’s Rolls.  It’s Carla who’s set up a poker game with Erica, Nick and Lloyd. Roy’s not best pleased and tells Carla she could have cost him his license.  She stays out all night gambling in a casino in town and Roy gently admonishes her for coming home in the early hours. He knows what time it was, he tells her, because the shipping forecast was on the radio.  She replied with: “Shipping forecast… Shiraz… whatever gets you through the night, Roy.”  Carla’s retreat into gambling gets worse and she starts online gambling at work. She’s still blaming herself for setting fire to Victoria Court and has the deaths of two people, that she didn’t kill, much on her mind.

Leanne tells Dan she’s going to out him to Liz as the fella who beats up prostitutes.  This seemed like a good plan until Dan warned her that if she told Liz anything, he’d tell Simon that Leanne used to work as a call girl. Leanne decides to stay schtum, for now.

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 Simon Crowther (Monday double); Jonathan Harvey (Wednesday); Martin Allen (Thursday); Jan McVerry (Friday); Mark Wadlow and Joe Turner (credited jointly for Friday’s second episode). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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Coronation Street Weekly Update, November 14 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Many thanks to Janet Waterhouse for doing a sterling job with the update last week while I was away.  And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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This week was a schad week on Coronation Street as Schmeichel the Great Dane schnuffed it and went to the kennel in the schy. The dog fell ill with liver cancer and Chesney was torn between spending money on vet bills and operations that could make his pet worse, or doing right by Kateh and the babeh and saving his cash. With bailiffs banging on the door for overdue rent, Owen loans Chesney and Katy some money which Chesney blows on vet’s bills for the dog. Even Kirk knows that Chesney’s putting good money after bad and he says: “If he could talk, he’d say ‘Ches, dude, no more operations’.” And so, the dog dies and Chesney’s in bits. But I’m just glad that with the big four-footed fella gone, I won’t have to figure out how to spell Schmeichel in the weekly update any more. It ain’t been easy, folks.

There were more tears and puppy-dog eyes over at Lloyd’s house this week when he breaks down as Chris tells him he and Cheryl have been having a fling behind his back and under his roof. Craig Charles played a blinder this week as Lloyd, and for this fan, stole every scene he was in. I didn’t shed a tear when Schmike.. Shemiek.. the big dog died, but I did well up when Lloyd broke down.  Steve does his best to cheer up his mate and there were some lovely scenes between the two of them.  To add to Lloyd’s heartbreak, he’s got a bad back and is in shock and awe when he finds out that Katy and Chesney Brown plan to call their baby James, and they’d never even heard of the soul legend. “There’s a whole generation who doesn’t know who James Brown is,” sighs Lloyd, before he has another little cry.

Anyway, you remember how Carla lost her workforce, her orders, her machinists, her money, her oomph? Well, fear not because she’s swanned off to Los Angeles to, in the modern parlance of the day, get her head together, and while she’s away the factory’s only been gone and saved by Michelle. Yes, Michelle has morphed into Ms Business overnight and will be appearing on the Apprentice next week where Lord Alan Sugar will hire her because she’s got right shiny hair. So, Michelle and Ciaran are now engaged and swanned back onto the Street this week, fresh from cruising around wherever it is they’ve been cruising, doing whatever it is they’ve been doing. Michelle saves the factory, gets Carla’s machinists back to work and with Nick Tilsley’s help secures a new order too.  And all this while Ciaran looks moodily on, has a beer with Peter and tells Michelle he doesn’t want to get married after all, he wants to go back on the cruise ship.

On a lighter note, and I love this Corrie coupling, Brian takes Julie to the Red Rec for a night out spotting little green men. He’s into UFOs is Brian and although their night on a blanket is romantic for Julie, they don’t spot anything unusual in the sky.  When Tommy and Tyrone find out what Brian’s up to, they decide to make their own UFO to try to fool him in the darkness next time he takes Julie out UFO spotting.  Best dialogue of the week came from Tommy this week in Tyrone’s living room as they’re rigging up the flying saucer.  Tommy: “Get Tina a can.” Tyrone: “Why can’t you get her a can?” Tommy: “Cos I’m holding a UFO with a fishing rod, that’s why.”  Classic Corrie, wonderful stuff.

Mind you, Tyrone’s new girlfriend Kirsty isn’t best pleased. Although she and Tyrone are getting along fine, she’s jealous of Tina and tells her she doesn’t want her swanning around the house wearing nowt but a towel when she’s fresh out the bath.  Tina’s got more things to worry about as Matt takes her out for a meal with his middle-class medical mates and a nasty ex-girlfriend of his joins their night in Nick’s Bistro.  Tina gets patronized and Matt does little to defend her, so she tells him where he can stick his stethoscope.  Ooh, it’s here.

And that's just about that for this week..

This week's writers were Martin Allen, Mark Wadlow, Joe Turner, Carmel Morgan and Simon Crowther. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:
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Glenda Young
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Coronation Street Weekly Update October 31, 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Many thanks to Richard Whitbread for doing a sterling job with the update last week.  I’ll also be away next week and your weekly update writer will be top woman Janet Waterhouse. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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John Stape reappeared on the Street this week and then he went and died. But not before he gave this Corrie fan a right good chuckle when he kidnapped Rosie Webster for the second, and last time. To be kidnapped once by Stape is unfortunate. To be kidnapped twice is simply careless.  He ties her up in the flat and with the help of charts and diagrams, forces Rosie to take in as much information as possible about his three murders so that she can be of some help in getting Fiz out of pris. She’s no help to anyone, but that’s by the by. It was a wonderful scene, with John marking Rosie’s homework in red pen while blaming her for starting his murdering spree.  Jason and Kev soon figure out Rosie’s missing and burst in through the door. John escapes and scarpers off in his car at top speed with Kevin close behind.  John’s car crashes and he’s rushed to th’ospickle where he later dies, but not before giving the cops a full confession. Will it be too late to save Fiz who’s been sent down for 15 years for killing Charlotte? Fiz asks Chesney to organise John’s funeral, and to his credit, Ches refuses to put the murdering no-mark to rest. Aw... and all he ever wanted to do was teach.

In Roy’s Rolls, Sylvia’s over the moon when she finds out she’s won a cruise in the competition that she entered with Mary’s slogan. Mary, as you can imagine, is not best pleased.  Roy refuses to be drawn in but makes it clear to his mother that he’s not that happy with her either.

Over at Underworld, Carla undercuts Frank in the war of th'underpants to win an order for knickers that’ll have the girls and Sean on overtime in no time.  How they’ll finish the order in time with no machines, no material and few staff remains to be seen but Carla isn’t going to let Frank win the deal.

Julie and Brian move into the flat above the old butcher shop. It’s a move that lifts up their lust level and they set about making babies - right after they unpack the kettle.

Chris continues to pretend that he’s dying (doncha just love soap?) in order to sweetheart Cheryl and get back his family.  Poor Lloyd doesn’t know what’s going on but he ain’t going to be happy when he finds out.

And that's just about that for this week.  Janet Waterhouse will be here next week.

This week’s writers were Joe Turner, John Kerr, Carmel Morgan, Jan McVerry, David Lane and Ellen Taylor.  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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Big name signings to Coronation Street have worked well in the past. Maureen Lipman as Rovers temporary landlady Lillian ‘and never, ever Lily’ Spencer was my own particular favourite. Sir Ian McKellen as conman Mel Hutchwright was sublime. And then there was Sarah Harding, a singer from the band Girls Aloud who turned up this week. There are thousands of excellent, capable actresses available for work. And yet ITV chose to cast ‘a name’ in the role of Robert Preston’s wife Joni who turned up this week on our favourite show.  Sinead O’Connor last week declared ‘music is dead’ when Rolling Stone magazine published a picture of Kim Kardashian on its cover. I’m feeling Sinead’s pain. That’s all I’m going to say.

On to much more brighter things this week on Coronation Street, and Roy passed his driving test!

At No. 1 Robert cooked Deirdre’s signature dish of stuffed marrow for Tracy and Ken. He also stayed overnight with Tracy until she found out about you know who (see paragraph one above, I’m not going over Joni Preston’s arrival again, it hurts).

Leanne, Liz and Simon are held captive in Leanne’s flat by Dan, Dan the Brewery Man this week. In a ludicrous scene, a drunken Dan locked two feisty women and a capable lad inside Leanne’s flat. There were any number of pots and pans Liz or Simon could have used to flatten Dan but instead there was panic and pandemonium until Liz managed to flee the flat with Simon.  Dan was carted away in a cop car and there was a lovely bit of bonding between Zeedan and Simon. Zeedan’s a character I’ve not warmed to till now so I do hope we’ll start to see more of this side to him, it works.

Gail tries, and fails, to get Michael back this week.  She pretends she’s got a leak in the kitchen and calls Michael who goes round to fix it. While he’s there she gives him Battenberg cake. He doesn’t eat it all and she wraps the remainder in foil which he takes to the pub so Eileen can bash it all over the table. I thought this was incredibly cruel and has put me right off Eileen, and Battenberg cake. Gail makes a final play to get Michael back but he spends the night with Eileen instead.

Bethany bunks off school and spends the day with Callum in his flat and at the Dog and Gun. She gets drunk on voddy and although she refuses his offer of a spliff, he takes a picture on his phone of her with it in her hand. He also gets her to do some drug running for him and takes photos of her in action there too.  

Tony returns this week but no-one wants to see him – not his son Jason, not his ex-Tracy and not his ex-Liz.  Liz does grant him an audience in the back room of the pub where she ends up pummeling him and slapping him for his dirty dog ways. A brilliant scene - and Bev Callard as Liz has been on fire this week, always a joy to watch.

Over at the garage, Kev gets an offer he can’t refuse when a fella he knows offers to sell him his garage.  Kev’s all suited and booted as he makes his way to business meetings and the bank and Sally’s impressed. It doesn’t take much to turn Sally’s head, unfortunately for Tim, who notices what’s going on. Deciding he doesn’t want to lose Sally to Kev, Tim proposes to Sally and in some style too. Well, I say style. It all depends if you like Take That blaring out of a ghetto blaster and being proposed to by a fella with a bunch of Dev’s flowers in his hand while he’s kneeling on the cobbles in front of a knicker-stitching factory.  But it’s a style Sally likes and she says ‘yes’.

And that's just about that for this week.

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This week’s writers were Julie Jones (Monday double); Susan Oudot (Wednesday); Mark Burt (Thursday); Jayne Hollinson and Ben Tagoe (Friday double).  Find out all 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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