Tonight on the Fizrone show, human oil slick Adam has got hold of a proof version of The Book and advises Ty and Fizz to go through it to find anything libellous. At least this means one or both of them will read a book! As an aside, I'd like to know how Mad Dog knew how to find Hope on the online game. Was it just luck? Also, I wonder what his follow up book is going to be - The Richard Hillman Chronicles? The Lewis Archer Gambit?
Anyhoo. Fizz and Tyrone find different ways of dealing with things. The woman who once stood on the roof of the factory in a basque to make Mike Baldwin sell her designs is a more conciliatory adult, begging the publisher, mum to mum, to make adjustments to the book, i.e. to remove Hope's name from it. Ty, on the other hand, finds out that there's a Q and A with the author taking place (before the book comes out? This is a bad decision by the marketing department) and he makes more of a comment than a question when he slaps the writer as he besmirches Fiz.
When did Ty get so fighty? He's always been a bit of a sap. Perhaps this is the second part of his midlife crisis? Anyway, Fiz has to go begging again - to persuade the author not to press charges against her partner. Unforch, Ty has done the marketing department's job for them and his slap has gone viral on all of the social media channels (even Mastodon), and the book is coming out early, sans re-writes. Fiz is not best pleased.
Meanwhile, another of Ty's victims, Nicky Tilsley (who really should put a "No Stapes No Dobbs" sticker on his front door) is persuaded by Roy, Sam and Leanne to let his son meet with the restorative justice charity with Sam's aim to visit his mother's murderer. Look, Sam, Jambo Harvey is in the dance studio practising the rumba with the lovely Nancy, he hasn't got time for you!
Talking of other TV shows featuring Corrie stars, I watched most of Queens For a Night, starring Simon Gregson (Steve) as Bidet Bardot. He did the comedy challenge, coming across somewhere between Lily Savage and Pauline Calf. He admitted that his day job is very easy as he's just playing a version of himself, but his drag queen persona was actually really well done (he won!) and I'd love for Steve/Simon to push himself a bit more. Perhaps Daisy could organise a drag pub quiz or something (hilarity ensues as a punter mistakes Glenda for a drag queen) and Tim and Steve reckon they could out-drag the professional queens? It could work!
It's November now and I've weakened and put the heating on, but Summer drags on. This week: Summer moves out! And of course it can't go ahead without Major Angst, although this time from the Arch Deacon as he frets that he's driven Summer away (count your blessings, Billy) with his bad parenting. At least he has a spare room now, he could move at least one (both!) of his fellow gay dads in. Summer returns to host a 1970s toasted sandwich party and thank Billy for all he's done for her.
Similarly at no.1, Tracyluv doesn't want Amy and Jacob to leave - or rather she doesn't want Amy to leave. If you haven't even got a room in which to play your tapes, wouldn't you - aged 18 - prefer to have your own Barlow-free space? And anyway, wouldn't Amy be entitled to student housing? Is Amy's uni career just going to be forgotten?
I look forward to Summer, Aaron, Amy and Jay-kub all falling out as Amy fails to buy any toilet roll, Summer wants to watch Requiem For A Dream whilst Jacob has rented The Fate Of The Furious, and Aaron refuses to let anyone drink alcohol in the flat.
And finally, Max and Daryan start work at Speed Daal and Max bumps into Daryan, causing him to drop some cutlery. This is how the alt-right white supremacist dystopia begins - with clumsiness! Max overhears Yasmeen saying he's useless and he storms out, until Alya persuades him back.
Rachel Stevenson - still on twitter, despite everything.
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