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Monday, 9 February 2026

Coronation Street Episode Review Monday 9th February

Spying on one's sister doesn't work when you live on a street where everyone knows you. Various people call out to Shona as she tries to overhears her sister's phone call, ruining her concentration. Jodie makes out she's meeting a new fella, but it's actually their dad in a dementia care home. Daddy Ramsey angrily tells Shona to leave but she and Jodie share a moment, and Shona again warns her off Carl. I think putting two baddies together is quite a smart move. Jodie has a one-side conversation with her dad, telling her she has a new family now and not to ruin it for her, or else.

Coronation Street confirms prison drama as Lou surprises Debbie

In the meantime, the prison set has been re-constructed, complete with slanted camera angles, to show us that Debbie is discombobulated. She's even more so when she discovers that Farrel Hegarty has been re-cast as Lou and is assigned to look after her. She could've rung up Fiz/Rita/Sally/Deirdre (RIP)/Gail/Tracy/Yasmeen/Abi/Carla for some prison advice, no? In the end, they make pals - is this the start of ~~caged heat~~ a beautiful friendship?

And Ryan espies Mal coming out of Roy's back passage but promises Bernie that he won't tell anyone, but she decides to fess up to Dev, although Dev interrupts her after the drugs bit and she doesn't get onto the snogged another fella part of the confession. As an aside, I do think Ryan needs to team up with Michael and form a plot as they are both just hovering around the edges of other people's storylines, and have been doing so for a while now.

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Preview of today's Coronation Street - Monday 9 February 2026

Monday 9th February

SHONA AND JODIE FACE UP TO THEIR FATHER Shona, convinced Jodie is hiding something, follows her to a psychiatric hospital where Jodie tearfully introduces their confused, estranged father. Jodie explains how she was left to care for him after their mother fled. Shona is touched and assures Jodie she's part of the family now.

WILL BERNIE TELL ALL? As Mal passes through the café on his way up to the flat, Ryan recognises him, Bernie explains that Mal’s an electrician, he’s doing some work for Roy and she’d be grateful if he didn’t mention the incident at the hotel to anyone else. When Bernie reveals that the guy doing Roy’s electrics is the same guy she spent the night with at the hotel, Gemma’s horrified and advises her to come clean to Dev before he hears it from someone else. Will Bernie take Gemma’s advice?

DEBBIE’S ASSIGNED A CARER Debbie’s assigned an inmate to look after her, but she’s not best pleased to discover it’s Lou Michaelis…

ELSEWHERE Sarah and Geroge treat Todd to a few beers and a takeaway. Todd’s touched but when he notices some missed calls from Theo, he quickly moves away to listen.

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Saturday, 7 February 2026

Episode Review Friday 6 February 2026

Welcome. They have been saying that Debbie is going to court tomorrow for days, but today is the day and Carl has not taken the news of his family status at all well. No sympathy for what his mother/sister was going through all that time ago. Debbie is making final arrangements and Ryan is firmly in charge at Chariot Square. Carl's contribution is to leave the key to the flat at the hotel reception. Debbie chases Carl down in Roys Rolls who is his usual ~~polite and genteel self~~ nasty self-centred with zero redeeming features self. He refuses to go to court today and he will be leaving Weatherfield very soon but Debbie says he can stay at the hotel until he does. Ryan, Kev and Abi do make the court room and Adam has chosen to wear a wig although it is not a requirement when a solicitor acts. Perhaps in deference to the old school judge who determines that this is serious, so four years inside reduced to 2 years 8 months for pleading guilty (she will serve 16 months or slightly less).

Theo has disappeared completely having left Todd with £10 and a promise he would be back tomorrow, now he is not even answering his phone or returning calls. Todd talks Summer out of going to Debbie's sentencing although she wants to see justice done for Billy. Summer attempts to make breakfast for herself and Todd but there is nothing at all in the fridge or the cereal cupboard. Summer shops and later Sarah tells Todd that Harry has done his sponsored walk of 5k and he completed the course and could she have the £10 in cash - which Todd has not got. He is snappy because normally it would not be a problem.

Plattsville is very odd. David and Shona bickering because both are tired. Tim takes Jodie off somewhere and when she returns she has a box which appears to contain personal "treasures". Sarah insists on buying David lunch before he goes back to the hospital as Bethany is there and can stay on. He agrees. In Jodie's box there is an usb stick which she removes so it must have some meaning before David comes in with Sarah and Jodie rapidly hides the box again. David expressed the view that there is something wrong with Todd which leads to Sarah heading off as she has come to the same conclusion.

Roy is not around and Nina has a raging toothache and when she goes to the dentist Bernie is left on her own and is clearly not up to coping. Mal comes down from upstairs and swings into action as a pair of hands in the kitchen. Abi and Kev come in with the bad news of Debbie's sentence and this enables Summer to go off on one about Debbie's decision to get in and drive that car which led to Billy's death.

Debbie goes into shock when she arrives at the prison where she enquires as to the availability of room service and is bothered by the incessant noise and loses her sight. We are later told has suffered another TIA and has been transferred to hospital where she is handcuffed to the bed and is accompanied by a member of the prison staff. Kev suggests to Carl that after Ronnie has had a chance to see Deebalina they should see her - but Carl does not want to do it and will not get involved plus making remarks about his "sister" and this "family".

Mr Tsakpo ran a lovely establishing shot as Debbie recovered consciousness and sight in the hospital of the ward ceiling and lights and then steadily coming into focus a nurse approaching the bedside. I know we are in the new era of 30 minute episodes but this one really felt as if it was the first half of an hour. We have a hanging story of Sarah heading out to find out what is really with wrong with the Toddster, no doubt she will find Theo back in place when she gets there. Also I suspect the second half would have rather more about the usb stick. This episode felt "wrong" and I will be interested to see if Monday really is part 2. If it is then I hope that management stop it and get back to working out that episodes are Monday to Friday. This of course was actually Wednesday's episode for those who are counting as we lost two this week which maybe has made it worse.

Written by Susan Oudot and directed by Kodjo Tsakpo.

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