There's a great article in The Yorkshire Evening Post to which I found myself nodding my head in agreement with almost every word. It lays out some of the things the writer finds wrong with Corrie at the minute and I now propose some ways to take that further.So here it is. My ten-step plan to get Coronation Street out of its current slump.
1. Get rid of Uncle Umed. He's not big, he's not clever and he's certainly not funny.
2. Get rid of the Windasses. Ditto.
3. Don't go into overdrive with Becky Granger. Yes, fans love her but we can have too much of a good thing. Remember what happened with Sean Tully?
4. Get rid of Tony Gordon and send him to EastEnders.
5. Bring back Curly Watts and while you're at it, bring back Spider Nugent too.
6. Have Norris come out of the closet, at last.
7. Give more airtime to Betty.
8. Give Deirdre Barlow a toy-boy.
9. Give Gail Platt something to smile about, possibly an affair with Eileen Grimshaw.
10. Marry Roy and Hayley Cropper - legally.
And that's it. Not much to ask, is it? I'm still loving Coronation Street with my personal highlight being the quality of the writing. Stories I'm currently enjoying are Martha, Ken and Deirdre in the Bermuda triangle of love, Blanche and little Simon, the Websters are fab, Norris, Rita and Emily as always are superb, Liz and Lloyd are good fun and Darryl and Amber are ace.
So come on Corrie, pull your socks up and, in the words of Oliver Cross: "Either get your act together or we'll, er, keep moaning about you and possibly boycott Harveys The Furniture Store, even though most of us would have to start shopping there first."
