Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 31 July 2026

A Friday episode on a Friday, now here is a novelty.  We soon get the news that Tracy will be alright following her codeine overdose.  Steve finds a disused packed of the said drug in furtive looking Cassie's cardy and even he manages to put two and two together.  Steve summons Ty as Steve worked out that Cassie had used Tyrone's drug supply and whilst the dosage she used was merely intended to distort the readings of Ross's medical tests at the prison Tracy seems to have had a much higher dosage.  In any event Ross manages to come out of it all smelling of roses as he does the child minding whilst the adults sort themselves out.  Ty has had enough of the drama his mother creates and she must leave his house.  She is already touring as Miss Hannigan in Annie - so in case she has gone by this time next week I hope I can say that I really hope Cassie can come back some time in the future, our screens will be poorer for her absence.

Betsy makes it home from hospital with Debbie providing some useful thoughts as she arrives.  As it  has turned out nice in Manchester today, Betsy, Lisa, Lauren, Carla and Ryan are in their garden with Lisa concerned at the noise coming from next door where Debbie, Sally, Bernie, Fiz, Christina and Mary (but sadly no Glenda) are being loud, slightly alcohol infused and being served fresh pizzas by Tim from the brand new pizza oven which Sally and Tim have bought.  Mary is taking every opportunity to remind Christina of her bad behaviour and all is going well otherwise until Debbie fails to recognise Tim as he delivers pizza and tells him to go away.  

Mary had been hoping for a naked statue of Ben Shepard but as no-one knows what it is Sally has to tell them it is a pizza oven.  The ladies explain who Tim is but Debbie is obviously shocked by her own failure.  It looks like another book fell off the library shelf.  Debbie finishes her drink and then swears off alcohol, she is going teetotal.  

Eventually Ryan, Carla et al get Lisa to see that she is being slightly too much like a helicopter and needs to back off a bit.  She says she gets it.

In other news Nina is still missing her tips.  Nina asks her to be diplomatic when Sienna arrives so within 1 second of her arrival Nina is asking about the mislaid money.  Sienna stomps off.  Later Asha (looking for codeine) opens a drawer containing a brown envelope with all the money in it where Nina must have put it.  Oh dear lots of spilt milk to be sucked up.  

Cassie pleads with Steve but he hands her the cardy and slams the door in her face.  She has nowhere left to go. 

In big news tonight Dorin spoke twice.  Also Hope is clearly the brainbox in the family as she knows how fast the Polish economy is growing.  Ruby is not impressed that Hope can learn her lessons.  Some great lines tonight - Tim is like the Swedish muppet chef and Steve wagering his life on Cassie not being the poisoner.  Carla not wanting to eat the rear end of a lime green caterpillar left over from Frankie's second birthday party.  

In other news Daisy has moved.  She popped off to the Midlands to create Amber in "The Archers" before leaving so Amber could get pregnant (her replacement is not so good at squealing).  Daisy Charlotte Jordan has stayed in the Midlands and is now an apprentice hairdresser / murder mystery solver supporting Sally Philips in the Hairdresser Mysteries.  See you next week.

Written by Damon Alexis-Rochefort.  Directed by Judith Dine.

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Episode Review Friday 27 February 2026

Welcome to tonight as Bernie wakes in her cell in Weatherfield police station where the police force currently believe that she attacked and left Mal Roper the worse for wear.  She has an early morning visit from Kit who is absolutely convinced that she did not do it.  Initially she answers no comments, however she eventually volunteers she was getting rat arsed in the Corner Shop rather than rampaging the streets to deal with the unlovely Roper.  The police then go off to check the CCTV.  

At Shuttleworth's Damien Ripley arrives - they were doing his aunt's funeral and he is Joan's son - who passed away in the undertakers in the Thursday episode.  He would like them to continue the family tradition as so far he has not heard the vicious rumours floating around that George is bumping people off for the inheritance!  As Damien leaves the undertakers Adam and the angry Mrs King appear and start abusing George and his business ethics, calling him a conman.  Mr Ripley backs out of having anything to do with Shuttleworths.  At the police station Kit takes details from Mrs King but Kit can see no reason to pursue any investigations.  However Adam reminds Kit of Christina's murky past and so sticks in a poisoned quill to get Kit to take it further.  Sarah and Sean tittle-tattle over the dead sisters in the Rovers later.  Tim comes in and reports that Mrs King and Adam felt they had a good meeting with Kit.  Christina pooh poohs the whole thing but George is seriously worried.  

Jodie pours away the milk and unloads the dishwasher of dirty plates and loses the list of jobs left by Shona who arrives back from the hospital as David falls downstairs late for work.  Shona tells him off for what he has not done as cleverly orchestrated by Jodie.  Later Jodie is working in the cafe and Bethany is picking up some food and queries how Jodie managed to find Shona's lost ring down the back of a sofa at the Platts when Shona was convinced she lost it in Audreys.  As Bethany leaves the cafe Shona comes in still completely worn out and in need of caffeine and admits she snapped at David earlier which was wrong.  Bethany turns on her heel and asks Jodie to take Lily to the cinema tonight so that Shona and David can have some one to one time.  Jodie is less than amused by this turn of events.  However she goes along with it and David and Shona just about have five minutes to themselves and are about to unmake the bed when Jodie and Lily return - turns out the film was an 18.  They had to come home as there was nothing on for an hour and Lily has football training in the morning.  Jodie consumes the brownies which David was about to enjoy.    

Steve spoke to Andy last night about Big Jim and as a result he is not going to let his father get under his skin.  He is going to forget he has a father.  Steve reckons everything is going well, he loves his job, Amy is doing well and he has the perfect girlfriend.  Mary comes in and tells them she is off to the BRIT Awards tomorrow - Ben Shephard is back in Manchester.  Well he might be there.  Steve goes and Mary seeing things are going well for Cassie and Steve remarks that it is a pity it is not a leap year.  You can almost (it is very slow) see the cogs clicking in Cassie's head.  Later in the cab office Cassie reveals to Mary and then to Tim that she is going to propose to Steve and they are getting married.  Tim just hopes Steve will say yes which plants a seed of doubt in Cassie's mind.  

Kit catches up briefly with Sarah as it looks like Bernie is going to be charged.  However Kit knows that Bernie did not have anything to do with it because, as he tells Sarah he did.  He claims he grabbed Mal and gave him a shove.  Then Mal had a heart attack which is why he is in the hospital.  Sarah-Lou tells him he has to go to the station and report himself - he would lose his job of course.  At the station just as Kit is about to end his career Bernie is released from incarceration as the CCTV in the shop proved to the police that she was getting drunk there when Mal was attacked and so she is off the hook and at least for now so is Kit.  Once home Dev welcomes Bernie back, but she wants to know how Kit knew about the CCTV as she did not think anyone knew where she was.  He lies.  She knows there is more to it than that.  

Lisa has attended Professional Standards - no case to answer, off desk duties and with Bernie in the clear Kit is back on the Mal Roper case.  He protests he is too busy but Lisa is sure he would like to know who attacked the man who had been harassing Bernie - his mother?  Lisa wants to get back to catching the bad guys,  Kit rather looks like there is one crime on the books which he would rather prefer remains unsolved.

Many years ago I took my younger sister to see "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".  A fine film and the first time I have ever experienced the audience applauding in the dark.  However it was not until we were sat sitting watching the film startup that I realised it was an "X" and as she was about 5 years younger then me she was not then 18.  I am not sure it did her any harm.

Written by Alasdair Morrison and directed by Katie Fenton-Green.

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Episode Review Friday 2 January 2026

Happy New Year.  Welcome to Weatherfield, well almost.  Virtually the entire programme comes from Monkford Hall Hotel and I find it absolutely amazing that "Take a Vow" the wedding planner used by Debbie to bring the event together does not appear anywhere to ensure that it all goes smoothly, lousy wedding planner who would get a poor review in my book (can you ever give no stars when reviewing anything these days?).  Getting ready Bernie finds she has left behind her lucky pig so she and Bernie get lost in the woods seeking some yellow jasmine flowers (in January) and also find a golf buggy to enable return to the hotel in time for the ceremony.

Abi finds the money missing from the bank account as cash in one of Carl's bags (can I remind the writers that in the UK the banks refuse to handle more than £10k of cash at any one time without going through significant procedures - you cannot walk in ask for £18k cash).  Once at the hotel she swaps most of the cash for a bundle of newspapers and stashes it somewhere else (this was not shown but she later checks the bag and shows relief that the newspapers are still there).  She knows that Carl has a one way ticket and she also tells James that she knows the secret and he does not need to tell her that Carl is a bad egg, she exchanges similar confidences with Kev.

Carl has also found the post it note which Debbie wrote reminding her to phone Elaine and that it has been ticked so Debbie did phone her and knew she was about die.  So Carl has good reason to feel unhappy with Debbie.

Asha has told Amy that she is not taking her meds any more.  Quite why this needs to happen on the way to the wedding will probably become clear on Monday.  Billie is apparently a qualified minibus driver and brings all sorts of odd invitees to the party and later he tinkles the ivories - so many talents will be missed.  Amy tells Cassie, wearing a rather smart red outfit about Asha who advises Amy to keep talking to Asha to support her.  Tracy uses it as an opportunity to have another go at Cassie but the latter gets the better of the exchange.  

At the start of the wedding ceremony Debbie sings a solo verse of "On Top of the World" with the rest back by the dementia choir.  In print I cannot convey how well she did this.  Ronnie makes his vows and Debbie had some written vows she decided not to use them - but just to tell Ronnie how much she loves him for joining her on her journey she is his now and forever.  Later Debbie makes Ronnie throw away his prompt cards and speak from his heart in the same way.  He calls her many wonderful things and adds the word complicated and the rest of the top table agree with the word being used!  He toasts Deborah his wife for life.  

Kev has seen Jack's drone footage of Carl driving off in the stolen car which mowed down Tyrone some months ago.  So once the wedding has happened and it is Kev's turn for a speech as one of the bride's best men (complicated) he plugs in Jack's computer but instead of playing the drone footage he wants to discredit his brother he plays the recording of the dance moves he and Jack recorded the previous day, so Carl lives to breathe another five minutes.  Much later we see that Carl had swapped the laptops before Abi calls him heartless and selfish and she accuses him of hitting Tyrone and that she knows he is going to Germany.  He drops the incriminating laptop on the floor.  He claims the file is corrupted - but most people could pay for recovery.  She admits her stupidity in what she did.  She cannot forgive him for hitting Tyrone.  She takes her bag and goes.  (She should have picked up the laptop).  Carl thinks he still has the money when Debbie confronts him about Tyrone - but he responds with the post it note.  She blames her memory.  He shouts at Debbie for keeping him from his mother.  He takes the bag and goes.  She is utterly distressed in the show's closing shot.

Theo and Todd drove up last night.  At the reception Theo reminds Todd they are not drinking so Todd takes orange juices whilst later Todd spots Theo necking a glass of champagne.  James knocks a pint of beer all over Todd (and splashes Theo) so Todd goes to the bathroom to wash his shirt and Billy follows and sees the bruises from Theo's most recent brutal kicking.  Todd explains to Billy that it is not Theo's fault and takes him to show him the video of events.  Billy realises that the video has been edited and starts a lengthy watch of the unedited video footage and he tells Todd that Theo is gaslighting him.  Billy says that Todd has to get away from the toxic Theo.  

Becky has Lisa and Betsy holed up in a hotel room and gets the latter two to have over their phones and sim cards so that she can do phone swaps to prevent them being tracked by whichever gang she alleges is after them and who firebombed the house (which was Becky wearing a rather fetching balaclava).  Even Lisa hands her phone over whilst Becky assures Betsy all her photos are safe on the sim card which is news to me.  Lisa puts Carla's engagement ring in an envelope which she passes to Sarah for Carla as it also contains the house keys.  Sarah takes a look at Carla's latest socials and can see that Carla is still wearing the ring in the envelope as she shows Kit.  DC Green turns his brain on and thinks that there is something suspicious going on.  He and Sarah head back to the flat where we know Carla was in the closet and this time finds a hair which is later confirmed as Carla's.  He finaly tells Sarah that he has been investigating Kim/Becky for some time.  

The hotel used for the location is The Saddleworth Hotel, Oldham and this shot of Kev and Abi shows some of the wonderful scenery from that part of the world - not all old smoky back streets and the huge mill facilities and pre-eminent textile processing which characterises the location.

Written by Debbie Oates.  Directed by David Beauchamp.

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