Coronation Street Weekly Update, June 20 2011

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As Deirdre settles herself on the sofa with her book The Treasures of Ancient Greece, Tracy mopes around wondering how she let Steve stitch her up. She’s signed the contract giving him access to Amy on the grounds that she thought Steve was going to offer her the bar manager’s job at the pub but he only goes and gives it to Stella and Karl, Stella’s fella, the new couple who’ve moved into the pub. Stella’s blonde and brash with a Northern accent that wavers in the way that Whitney Houston’s singing voice wavers, using forty-seven notes when you only need to hear one. Maybe it’s because the actress who plays her is a Londoner and well, we’re just going to have to get used. First impressions of the new couple, the Price pair, are good. Stella and Karl are joined by Stella’s daughter Eva, a blonde bit who enters in tears, always a good start.   Best line of the week was  Steve interviewing Stella for the job and he asks Tina to bring them some coffee, some biscuits. “What’s this? Downton Abbey?” replies Tina with a snarl that would have made Betty proud.  Becky tries to flirt with Karl and accuses Steve of sleeping with Eva, not a great way to ingratiate herself with the new incumbents and it’s all too much for Steve to take and he tells Becky he’s filing for a divorce.  By ‘eck, that solicitor of his is being kept in funds.  Oh, and Karl starts work as a cab driver for Streetcars, in that same way that any new bloke in town who likes a pint, does.

Sean’s son Dylan moves into Eileen’s with Marcus and Sean.  So that’s a baby, two blokes, Jason the dumb son and Rosie the glamour girl cohabiting with Eileen, Salford’s mother earth.  “She’s had more gay men through her front door than attended Judy Garland’s funeral,” sniffs Norris. He does a lot of sniffing, does Norris this week. He’s not best pleased about Sean and Marcus’ parenting skills and even has a go at Maria and little Liam. He’s nasty is Norris. He almost lets on to Sylvia about Hayley’s past, until Rita gives him a kick under the table and warns him: “Purse your lips any tighter and you’ll swallow your chin.”  But it’s not Nasty Norris who breaks the news to Sylvia, it’s toxic Tracy who tells Sylvia the truth about Hayley’s past.  In an excellent scene, Sylvia refuses to get her head around it all, telling Roy he was always a disappointment to her. She takes to the flat upstairs, doing more miserable moaning than a bitter and twisted Daily Mail columnist.  “She’s Hayley Cropper, it’s as simple as that,” Becky tells her. And indeed it is.

Over at the Rovers, Dev gets down on one knee to propose to Sunita. He’s done up to the nines in black suit and tie, it’s double-oh-Dev, licensed to thrill and sell intoxicating liquors from a back street shop. He opens the box and pulls out a sparkler of a ring. But Sunita turns him down, much to the aunties’ dismay and they go back to Mumbai in a bad mood. 
And that's just about that for this week. 


This week's writers were Damon Rochefort, David Lane, Mark Burt, Simon Crowther and Chris Fewtrell.  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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