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Sunday, 12 July 2026

Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 10 July 2026


Welcome.  We have two episodes this evening so there is a bit of detail but I am only going for the headlines.  Cassie has the  mother of all hangovers when she wakes in the Chariot Square Hotel, on her own.  When she gets home she is told by the girls that there is a family meal tonight in the Bistro and her presence is required.  Steve wants to try and talk through their differences - he sees no need to get married given how often he has failed at it in the past.  They both agree to forget the last couple of days.  Ty, Fiz, Cassie, Steve, Dorin, Hope and Ruby gather and the two girls spring their genetic surprise - Ross - Ty's biological father whom they have been messaging as Ty wanting to meet.  It transpires that Ross was also at the Chariot Square Hotel last night when Cassie was indulging in her "me time".  After a chat with Ross, Tyrone tells him that he is not prepared to have any more family in his life.  Ross is obviously not happy about it.

Betsy, Laruen, Dylan and Brody are milling around with Betsy sounding unsure about going to that London.  Abi warns Brody about working for Idris and if Kit has anything on Idris he is not telling Adam.  


George follows Christina and discovers she is meeting her ex-husband, Lenny.  She is an addict to spending and has multiple credit cards in a variety of names including the ex-husband who agrees not to go to the police if she sorts herself out.  George goes with her to an addiction support meeting.  There is a house meeting involving Christina, George, Todd, Mary and Glenda.  Christina undertakes to get it all sorted - but it looks like an uphill task.  Mary does not sound like she will forgive Christina nor will Glenda.  


DS Swain visits Todd, to give him an update on the investigation into Theo's death.  There is none.  Todd hardly seems bothered (well little does she know that he knows etc).  Indeed he is fed up with the whole thing.  The following day Kit finds he has been taken off the case moving to a big drug investigation and replaced by some new kid on the block.  Swain then decides to ask Maria about her and Gary on the night of the death and this just raises Maria's suspicions even higher.  Gary and Maria row and she gets het up, ending up in the Rovers where she has a a chat with Kit who reassures her that Gary and Sarah are not having an affair and that Maria can always confide in him, as he is not on the case any longer.  Later Maria tells Gary that he hopes he does get arrested and that they can get the truth out of him - because she cannot.  


Alfie appears to be on the road to recovery and Abi feels she is unable to sue Idris as she cannot afford a solicitor.  Sal arranges a chat with Adam - although it is unlikely he can take the case.  In the Rovers Sal and Abi remind Adam that Alfie is Imran's son and against his original decision they sweet talk Adam into taking the case.  Alya will not be happy.  


In the corner shop Ross makes it clear to Cassie that she gets Ty to play with his daddy or he will remember how little he paid for their night together as a cheap prozzy and will tell Steve about their most recent encounter.  Ruby apologises claiming it was all Hope's idea.  Cassie tries to talk Ty round but it initially does not go well.  After Ross repeats his threat to Cassie she realises this is tricky.  Tracy meets Ross in the cafe and has dinner in Speed Dahl with Ross and Steve.  Cassie and Ty collect a take away and run into them.  Ross is restoring an Austin Allegro (why?).  Ty softens when he is reminded that he was unable to be with Dorin for a period of time.  They agree to a round of golf - but I am pretty sure that Ty does not play.  

As I think is well known Cassie is about to leave and so this is leading up to her exit.  Whilst we now know who killed Theo DS Swain does not - I assume at some point it will all go away - but it feels a frag at the moment.  Given that Adam is hard up it is not clear how he can afford to work for nothing for Abi - we shall see.

Written by Jonathan Harvey and Owen Lloyd-Fox.  Directed by Gill Wilkinson and Chantelle Kayll.

Kosmo

Saturday, 4 July 2026

Coronation Street Episode Review - Friday 3 July 2026


Hello again.  A Friday episode so I am back on duty.  We tie up one long running story tonight in that Will told the truth in the last episode.  The jury are taking time over their deliberations but before long we are all back in court for the verdict.  Ollie keeps an eye on Will and his mental 'elf whilst waiting for the outcome.  Inevitably having found her guilty on the lesser charge she is also found guilty of the more serious charge relating to being in a position of authority.  Megan instantly loses it, proclaims her innocence and has to be removed from the court as she screams at all of the Driscoll family and then she has a go at her solicitor advocate, Adam, who obviously does not like his client very much.  She will serve two thirds of her five year sentence which unlike a real court was handed down the same day.  


Speed Dahl's suppliers are delivering poor veg but more importantly Leanne is not answering calls from Idris following his interference with her phone to prevent Sam getting hold of her.  Last time round Alya warned Leanne off and now Alya is suggesting he needs a second chance, then she realises that Idris does not say sorry.  Later Mary delivers flowers for Leanne and reckons she has the second best job in the world to which Alya asks what is the best job - Mary answers "Ben Shepherd's PA".  The card merely says Idris.  Leanne might text him in the next three hours.  So apology accepted.  


In Roy's Rolls, Abi lives at Flat Four, The Precinct, Peel Street, Weatherfield and it seems her landlord is giving her the runaround.  She is on the phone for ninth time in two weeks and the flat is damp and has a weird smell.  Leanne sympathises about poor landlords (she has probably had a few) and suggests withholding rent - but Abi {whom we have not seen for weeks} cannot afford to be homeless with Alfeh.  There is a leak in the gully and it has been botched before but now needs repairing properly.  She does not even know the landlord's name.  Abi goes and passes Nick and Toyah as they come in.  Leanne confirms she is going to see Sam and Nick asks if she will put in a good word for him.  When she gets to Sam she does put in a word for Nick and calls Sam "mad" as in angry which he points out is not exactly the best word to use in a mental health unit.  Sam forgives Nick and the lad accepts he is not better yet and needs to be properly better before he comes home.  Leanne is accepting Idris's apology , then tells him about her three children.  Idris's phone rings as Abi descends the stairs into Street Dahl.  Idris does manage to apologise to Leanne and answers his phone to his very angry tenant who now knows who her scumbag landlord is.


Ty is having a difficult day so he and Fiz arrange Cassie to childsit and will have an evening in the pub.  Ruby and Hope are up to no good - they are doing something on their phone intended to cheer up Ty so Cassie leaves them to it and joins Ty and Fiz in the Rovers.  She will be back in time for Dorin at 7.  No doubt the "good" thing they are doing will be capable of more than one interpretation.  Maggie accuses Lauren of having a resting miserable face as I assume the normal term was not permitted.  To be honest Lauren rarely seems to like working and I have no idea where she is living as I thought Abi took her flat.  


We close in a very wet, mould infested flat where Alfie is coughing like a trooper smoking 500 a day and Abi is only just holding it together - this is more like a typical Manchester back street story and we already know the guilty party.  I hope it shames all landlords into ensuring they do the right thing.

The schedules for next Friday are telling me that there will be an hour long episode so if right I will be back then.  I think we are also near the end of the Sam story for now - the news that Megan was a proven liar has helped and he knows was is real now and when he is not in control so I am not sure there is much more of that story either.

Written by Carmel Morgan and directed by Mickey Jones.

Kosmo

Saturday, 31 January 2026

Episode Review Friday 30 January 2026


Bernie emerges from Weatherfield Emergency Department whilst Dev, Asha and Gemma are all worrying about where she has spent the night.  She seems in no hurry to tell them anything deleting the missed calls and unanswered messages. Given that it is Brody's birthday her absence is raising huge concern.  

Gemma lets Roy know that Bernie will not be in and Ryan sat at a table tells her that he saw Bernie last night in the Chariot Square Hotel in one of the rooms with a man and possibly with drugs.  Bernie arrives home and refuses to explain to Dev.  However Gemma challenges her mother but Bernie does not have time for her interrogations.  Gemma is not happy.  

At the party Kit thanks Tim for giving Brody and the girls a proper home.  Tim thanks Kit for getting a games console in the house!  Bernie eventually arrives at the party where Dev can hardly contain his pending nuclear explosion.  Brody finally admits that perhaps he now has family.  


Over at worst nightmare flat Theo opens Todd's post to find he has been missing payments on his £7k credit card debt.  Theo is of the opinion that Todd needs help managing his money and suggests that as they are together they should have a joint account and it will all be quite simple for them to share.  Todd can do little other than accept.  

Todd decides to invest in his relationship by buying steaks for dinner which Theo castigates as waste and identifies that Todd does not grasp the real value of money to which he has a solution.  They should both rely on cash and only cash (not to be recommended around here as the pubs have gone cashless in the main) and then when they spend something they can see they are handing over twenty pound notes rather than just going tap, tap with a card.  Within seconds Theo has improved his thinking further and asks Todd for his cards so that he can cut them up - which he promptly does although we do not see him cutting up his own cards.  

Until the joint account is set up Todd should hand over the internet banking details of his current account and Theo can manage that as well and Todd merely has to ask if he wants some cash and Theo will simply hand it over as it will make it all so much easier for them to control their expenditure.  Todd cannot think of any reason to deny Theo and hands over control.


The electrics in the flat above Roy's Rolls are playing up and he has asked a website for an electrician.  The electrician when he arrives apologetically is the man who thumped Roy and spent the evening with Bernie at the Chariot Square.  Mal has his electrician tools to prove who he is.  

After he has attended to the electrics he reveals that he has left Alice whom Roy and Mal agree has treated them like a pair of fools.  Mal is not going back to Inverness - he has found he can get work in Weatherfield through the website so can stay in the area.  Roy offers to help Mal as he feels responsible.  There is an intermittent wiring fault and Roy offers to pay Mal in advance for the work providing he starts as soon as possible.  They shake hands on it.


Abi arrives at the garage with a morning coffee and discovers Kev sleeping in the back seat of a car under repair and no-one is answering the persistently ringing phone.  He hangs up on the caller as Abi tells him she has come to see about the roof.  Kev is not in a good mood and he tells her not to worry about him, although he is clearly falling apart.  He shouts at her to go.  

Debbie is practicing for prison - sleeping on the floor, drinking skimmed milk and peeling potatoes and is surprised when Abi advises her that she will get full fat milk inside.  Abi tells her about the state that Kevin is in and that he needs help.  Abi thinks Kev might be depressed (really?).  Debbie says she will go and see him in the morning before she goes to prison.  Abi reminds Debbie that she managed to get out of prison in one piece so Debbie can.  Debbie, right now can manage, she is worried that the Debbie she will be by the time she emerges will be different.


Bernie leaves the party to put some recycling in the right bin when Gemma chases after her.  Bernie explains that she misses Paul and that most of the time she is in control, but last night she had a wobble as she could not cope.  She tells Gemma that she wants to forget last night ever happened.  Gemma goes back to the party and coming in the other direction is Mal - the dodgy man she was with last night.  After a chat Mal appears to agree he will say nothing about last night.  However he hopes there might be a next time.  Bernie tells him she is married and does not want to see him again.  He will however be working locally so they will see each other again.  

If you know Todd or anyone else who has handed over control of their finances be worried, be very worried.  If I were Mal I think I might be buying a lottery ticket this weekend.  A job, money in advance and freedom, Weatherfield is miraculous.

Written by David Judge.  Directed by Michael Lacey.

Kosmo

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