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Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Preview of tonight's Coronation Street - Wednesday 22 March 2023


Wednesday 22nd March 2023

ROY IS IN THE DOGHOUSE WITH EVELYN With Cerberus still sick, a concerned Tyrone insists they take him to the vets. When the vet suggests food poisoning, a guilty Roy reveals he dropped an eccles cake in the café and fears Cerberus may have eaten it. Both angry and worried, Evelyn tells Roy that if anything happens to Cerberus, she’ll never forgive him. The vet breaks the news to Evelyn that Cerberus is suffering from kidney failure. 

SARAH TRIES TO REASON WITH DAMON Sarah’s unimpressed to realise Adam is still representing Damon. Meeting up in the ginnel, Sarah begs Damon to stay away from Nick and drop Adam as his solicitor. Damon refuses to make any promises. Dee-Dee warns Damon he’s unlikely to walk free as whoever stitched him up knew what they were doing. Damon’s fuming and cornering Nick in the bistro office, closes the door behind him. 

PAUL’S GENEROSITY KNOWS NO BOUNDS When Gemma confides in Paul that the wedding venue is demanding full payment up front or the whole thing’s off, Dee-Dee overhears him on the phone to the bank. When Paul reveals that there’s been no improvement in his hand, Dr Gaddas refers him to a neurologist.

ELSEWHERE Stephen lies to Sarah, making out that the Americans have pulled out of the contract. Peter visits Carla and drops the bombshell that the factory workers have voted to put Stephen in charge. Ryan persuades Alya to meet him in the bistro later, just before Ibiza club promoter Crystal calls in, handing Ryan her business card. 

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Tuesday, 21 March 2023

Spoilers for next week's Coronation Street - March 27 to 31, 2023

Here are the major storylines for the week ahead on Coronation Street, all wrapped up nicely in 50 words or less.

Monday 27 to Friday 31 March 2023


Daisy's horrified when Justin returns, Paul confesses to Billy, Amy reports Aaron, Michael wants answers from Stephen, Amy gets devastating news, Beth doesn't heed Glenda's warning.

See the full week's preview with pictures at Corrie.net 

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Coronation Street Episode Review Monday 20th March

DAMON - SARAH - CORONATION STREET - ITV

We start off with Nick hoovering the living room at number 8 in braces and slacks - a sight no-one was wanting to see. There are further horrors in store as he goes into work and finds Dastardly Damon sitting at his desk making his usual vague threats. More threatening though is his Montague/Capulet meet up with Sarah in Chariot Square hotel bar (does nobody drink in the Weathy Arms any more?) where Sarah has flounced off to after discovering that Adam intends to represent her brother's current nemesis. As an aside, Adam wanted to take on more criminal cases due to the solicitors not making money, but isn't bread and butter for the average back street solicitor wills and conveyancing? Or maybe he should start charging for the informal advice people ask him for in the pub? Although all Adam really needs to do is wait for the next round of murders, miscarriages of justice and Tie Rack workers committing fraud. I mean, Stephen's going to need a brief soon, isn't he?
 
Anyway, Sarah invites Damon up to her hotel room to drink champers but then asks him to leave when she realises she doesn't want to break her wedding vows. They later aggressively flirt in the ginnel. We all know Sarah's track record of bad decision making and terrible taste when it comes to the male of the species.

RUFUS - STEPHEN - CORONATION STREET - ITV

Also drinking a soupçon of fizz are Stephen and the factory "girls" to celebrate the American contract. Two flies in the ointment are Peter, complaining that the "girls" have stabbed Carla in the back by voting for Stephen to take over the factory and the world's worst mockney, Rufus, who blackmails Stephen into giving him sole rights to the American market of Nipper Snapper. Stephen picks up the hole-punch of doom! But Rufus is saved by Sean and the ad-break. As another aside, would the name Nipper Snapper even work as a pun in the US? I do 't believe they use the words nipper or whippersnapper to mean child. 
 
To the love islands. Love Island 1 is Daisy still trying to organise a wedding band and, to avoid booking Glenda to serenade the guests with her "Pound shop Jane Macdonald" musical stylings, books Ryan to DJ. From Cafe Del Mar to the Rovers. Once again though, I implore, nay demand, that Glenda get a storyline. She's hung around the stalking storyline, she got involved with Beth and Mario (to be continued....) but she really needs a meaty story to sink her pearly whites into. If it involves some singing, all the better. Also in the wedding storyline, Amy tries on her bridesmaid dress and it looks like she should be covering some toilet rolls. She also gets panicky when the hen night is mentioned and says she's not going. Daisy complains about her bridesmaid not attending her hen night, but really maybe she should make some friends that aren't a) her step-mum and b) her niece-in-law-to-be.

Love Island 2 is Billy and Paul as Paul says he will move back in to the florist flat when his compo comes through, I think "when my compo comes through" might be Paul's famous last words. He says he doesn't want to cadge off of Billy, but really he'd be cadging off God, so I think it'd be OK. Alternatively he could accept the money from Peter - robbing Peter to pay Paul?

ROY - EVELYN - CORONATION STREET - ITV

Oh and Evelyn and Roy don't kiss, but do make up, although Cerberus eats something off the cafe floor and is later ill. Don't kill off Cerberus, Ian Macleod! The Dobbs-Stape-Plummer household has already had one pet death to deal with this year.

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Monday, 20 March 2023

Princess Anne visits Coronation Street - all the pics!


The Princess Royal today (Monday March 20th) visited ITV Studios Coronation Street to meet cast and members of the production team involved in the soap opera’s acid attack storyline.

Her Royal Highness attended as Patron of The Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI), who have been advising the programme’s producers and writers.

The Princess Royal viewed some upcoming scenes before meeting with Producer Iain MacLeod, cast members Charlotte Jordan, Ryan Prescott, Andrew Still, Rob Mallard and Sally Ann Matthews. Script writers, members of the story team and make-up department were also on hand to speak to HRH Princess Anne about working on the plotline.







The Royal party were also given a guided tour of the Coronation Street set lead by Series producer, Iain MacLeod and John Whiston, Head of ITV in the North/MD Continuing Drama.  

Commenting on the visit, John said: “Working with ASTI on this storyline has been invaluable to all of us. HRH's patronage of the charity is clearly of huge importance to both Her Royal Highness and the charity and it was an absolute honour to have them join us at Coronation Street today.  The visit gave both cast and colleagues the chance to discuss how they have worked together to create and portray such a delicate and important storyline, an opportunity none of us will forget.

Also in attendance were acid attack survivor Sammear Hussein, Mrs Sharman Birtles MBE JP DL Vice Lord-Lieutenant and Councillor Chris Boyes Mayor of Trafford 

Coronation Street has been working alongside ASTI on the storyline where Daisy has fallen victim to a stalker, Justin, who is convinced he is in a relationship with her. Justin’s behaviour led him to be arrested, but he is released on bail. Daisy becomes the target of an acid attack on her wedding day when Justin, in an act of revenge, goes to the Rovers to ruin her special day. 

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