Coronation Street Weekly Update, October 8 2012

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Maria and Marcus share a snog after Maria finds a lump in her breast. Marcus accompanies her to the clinic where tests are taken and they both breathe a sigh of relief when all comes back well. So big and heavy is this sigh of relief that they’re sucked into each other’s faces by the tornado of air that forces them into a kiss in the kitchen. Maria’s other lump, Jason, knows nowt about this and moves his stuff into Maria’s flat as happy as can be. But, I can hear you say, Marcus is gay, what’s he doing kissing a girl? That’s what I’d like to know too, I reply.

While the Croppers are away, Mary goes all Olé. She opens Roy’s Rolls on an evening and sets up a Spanish themed night – Cafe Olé – serving tapas and gazpacho. Now then, I watch Pedro Almodovar films and so I never touch gazpacho.  Nick’s not best pleased that Mary’s opened the cafe on an evening, putting it in direct competition with the Bistro for those discerning Weatherfield types who like to eat their beans on toast out instead of eating in with a tray in front of the telly.  In revenge, Nick opens the Bistro for breakfast.  Ooh, Roy won’t be happy when he comes back.

It’s Eileen’s 51st birthday and Paul throws her a surprise party with balloons only to find out that Eileen hates birthdays, almost as much as she hates balloons, especially those found at surprise parties.  

Living it up with lunch in the Wendy house, Ken lies to Deirdre about where he’s going on his birthday. Deirdre’s suspicious and follows Ken, yells to Rita who’s going out for a drive: “I think Ken’s up to his old tricks again!” to which Rita replies, with a touch of Cagney to Deirdre’s Lacey: “GET IN!”.  They drive off  with demented Deirdre yelling at Rita to put her foot down. “Overtake that van!” to which Rita replies: “I haven’t overtaken anything in 50 years!”. 

They  follow  Ken’s cab which takes them into a posh cul-de-sac in a very bay window part of town.  Deirdre’s eyes nearly drop out of her head when she spies Ken kissing Wendy on the doormat.  Later, she threatens Wendy and tells her to leave Ken alone, returns Wendy’s birthday gift to Ken of a pair of typewriter cufflinks and marks her card for her.   

Back at home, after a fag in the ginnel, Deirdre growls at Ken, exactly as she did back in 1989 when she found out then that Ken was knocking off Weatherfield Wendy.  Word for word in a repeat of what happened back then, she spat out: “I want to know where you’ve been, and who you’ve been with.”  Ken comes clean, sort of, and insists it’s platonic between him and the widow Wendy but there’s a glint in his eye that wishes it weren’t.  “It’s me or the job!” Deirdre warns him, and on such cliff-hangers, our soap lives are built.   

And that’s just about that for this week.  This week's writers were Mark Wadlow, Mark Burt, Peter Whalley, Jonathan Harvey and Martyn Hesford. 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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