Earlier this year, Coronation Street producer Kate Oates revealed that she's working on a storyline which will air in 2018 that, she says, "scares her."
We wondered what that story might be and our speculation is here if you'd like to read it.
Speaking to Metro online, Kate Oates talks further on this new, scary storyline and says this:
"I am still scared but I think that the trepidation that I feel about is useful. It’s one of those storylines that makes you check what you are doing and it will make people talk about it – we will seek a lot of advice and we have talked about it a lot as a team.
So it is a good thing that I feel a bit scared about it as it means that everything we do with it will be done in a very considered way and I hope that will come across."
What could it possibly be, I wonder? What?
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How many people will end up in the hospital this time though?
ReplyDeleteSurely all the residents. Corrie hasn't had a mass shooting storyline yet,has it?
DeleteWe’ve had a murder every year on average for the past decade. And plenty of dark threats from big bad baddies as well. How about giving it a rest and focusing on life’s other challenges? Like making it through university. Dealing with a disability. A truly bad marriage. Getting Bethany on track. A real struggle for the vicar with a violent streak to get and keep custody of Summer. And not just in a 3 episode arc but over time. Oh, and if we are done with stitching knickers, can that space be converted to an animal rescue shelter? Kitties and puppies are just as fun to look at as undies, and it would be a natural place for Kirk to work, the teens to get community service projects, and lots of adults to volunteer. And there’s really no dark side other than the bad lives they led until they met Kirky, and budgets. And skilled machinists who can’t/won’t retrain and survive on piece work (until they come up with a better idea, hint hint).
ReplyDeleteOh gawd, not aniother storyline which "will make people talk about it"...
ReplyDeleteWhat is scary IMHO, is this last road that Corrie is driving on with the wheel in the hands of this 'thoughtful, well researched, well advised) but yet still wreckless producer and her team.
ReplyDeleteWith the aging and imminent retirement of many older characters, the art of Coronation Street, the daily, funny, dramatic snapshot of regular life of this show, its legacy and connection to its past, an important thread that needs to be present each time it airs... Is on the near extinction list. It's just going to be another violent show, a take it or leave it program, instead of a must see, part of your life at the end of your day, to unwind type of program. Thank you for allowing me to express my fears in this opinion. MartesBC.
Oh, yes, abbyk and MartesBC - you are both so right! A while back I saw a comment that it's no longer "your grandmother's Coronation Street". Not sure if it was from Kate Oates or IMHO or one of the bloggers, but I thought it was rather flippant and disrespectful of all the loyal decades-old fans. While I don't necessarily want to go back to my Grandmother's or even my Mother's Corrie, I would love to get back to MY Corrie! You know, the one where I couldn't wait to settle down with my cup of tea and watch something believable.
ReplyDeleteSorry - meant to say ITV not IMHO
ReplyDeleteI think they're going to (along with killing even more people) make Pat Phelan do something so heinous to take the crown from Richard Hillman as the most notorious monster ever on the Street.
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ReplyDeleteI've watched Corrie all of my life, before I began school, have always loved it. What did I like? As a Canadian I watched American Soaps..I never knew anyone who was like someone on a soap..glitzy, makeup perfect...PSHAW!!!...Give me Hilda Ogden anyday. I knew someone like Hilda,Norris,David, etc etc. I liked Kev's coat, Deirdre's belt and specs..I identified with this program. That was it's charm.
I watched a bit of Wednesday's program, but found myself fastforwarding (never did that before)...and went to youtube and watched the early seventies...when Gail was a Giggly Gail Potter
So right...thanks whats your name (Kate?) you've ruined my favourite program with your ridiculous 'ratings grabs"
Oh, and if you could/would...write Emily out of the show or keep her in...but don't just forget about her.
Thanks, disgruntled fan.
Kate Oates nightmare scenario should be NO ONE WATCHING. Instead of a ratings grab she will find viewers tire of the same old murder, rape, revenge or the latest crime of the week. Clearly this woman has not read Clockwork Orange or seen the film. People get immune to violence quickly, it no longer shocks, scares or even interests people. Slow burning relationships between people whom we care about have no such thresholds. Our fascination with them go on for, oh I don't know, almost sixty years.
ReplyDeleteCorrie hasn't done an incest storyline yet so maybe Carla and Aiden get it together or try to avoid getting it together. They are adult half-siblings so there would be lots of moral and health objections from viewers. Would Carla confide in Michelle and that puts the women on opposing sides?
ReplyDeleteThe affair between Frankie Baldwin and Jamie, the stepson she'd raised since he was a little boy, wasn't strictly speaking incestuous because they weren't related by blood but I think it should count for that category and get us spared another round.
DeleteI guess it'll be another 'explosive' storyline. A bunch of hooey that will amount to nothing.
ReplyDeleteI vote for Abby as new head writer! Great ideas! Enough of the violence and criminal behaviour...this isn't Broadchurch.
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for the promised storyline of what happened to Todd in London, to turn him into the nasty piece of work he was when he returned to the street
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