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Tracy’s tapes turned up! Remember all those years when Tracy Barlow was sent upstairs to listen to her tapes? Well, this week we saw said box of tapes on the Barlow kitchen table. Peter was sorting through Tracy’s old tapes and when he found a Bros tape, his eyes light up. This wasn’t because Peter’s a fan of Luke and Matt, no. This was because Peter’s got plans for that Bros tape, plans that involve Leanne, perhaps?
Well, that’s what Nick thinks when he finds out that Leanne and Peter have gone Chrimbo shopping together. Nick storms round to the Barlow house to warn Peter off seeing Leanne. While Nick’s there he has a dig at Peter, telling him that No. 1 Coronation Street is a great bachelor pad and what’s Peter doing, at his age, still living with his dad? Peter does his best not to squirm but Nick’s words cut deep and we next see Peter in Anna’s flat telling her he wants her to move out ‘cos he wants his flat back. As for that Bros tape? We’ll find out soon enough.
Cathy practises her wedding vows with the help of a Dictaphone which she leaves on Roy’s kitchen table when she goes to spend the night at Yasmeen’s. As the Dictaphone carries on recording, Brian and Tyrone come into Roy’s flat to try to talk him out of the wedding and make him see sense, it’s clearly not something he really wants to go through with. And Roy’s words about how he feels obliged to honour his promise to Cathy are captured on the Dictaphone. Oh dear.
Speaking of Maria, she’s had her head turned by Adam Barlow – but it’s just to make Aidan jealous.
Billy tells the Bishop he’s decided to leave the church and stop being a vicar. The Bishop begs him to reconsider but Billy’s mind is made up. He wants to love and be loved for who he is, not for what the church thinks he should be. Getting bladdered in the Rovers on cheap shots, Billy takes a phone call and he’s offered a new job as a receptionist in a drugs clinic in town.
And finally this week, Eileen gets a poison-pen letter pushed through the door at No. 11 and Tyrone doesn’t know what a cooking apple is.
And that’s just about that for this week.
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This week’s writers Mark Burt and John Kerr (Monday double); Susan Oudot (Wednesday and Thursday); Simon Crowther and Jonathan Harvey (Friday double). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
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6 comments:
I missed Peter finding the tapes but I did cop Leanne singing When Will I be Famous as she waddled down the street. I thought it was a direct product placement because Bros are back.
Yeah, there was a lengthy scene between Tracy and Peter discussing the tapes. Bros back? Really? I hadn't noticed
I didn't realize that Billy had left the church for the last couple of months - or was that just put in after the fact to explain why we haven't seen him in ages???
I thought Nick struck a new low with his nasty remarks about Peter living with his father who's recovering from a stroke when he himself returned home to mummy after Leanne [whom he was married to at the time]found out about his one night stand with Kylie and blackmailing David into doing a DNA test on Lily to see if he's the father!
Bros must have been a U.K-only sensation as I don't remember them here in NZ. In fact I thought Peter and Leanne were talking about some band called "Broth"!
I don't know about anyone else, but I thought this week's episodes were some of the best we've seen in ages. A throwback to Corrie of the past. I hope it stays this way, just shows we don't need fires, crashes and dead bodies all the time to be entertaining.
Rapunzel, Bros didn't make it to the US either. I only know about it because of some friends from the UK who were all excited about them making a comeback.
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