Corrie Comicals week ending 20 December 2019

Looks like they had a good time last night but Sally was referring to the party and not their later bedtime activities.  After all she does not yet know about Charlie.  I am not sure Timbo will get much bedtime activity soon!

Gemma and Chesney are trying to duck the first Freschco photo session for the babies as they have not had much sleep or even managed to get themselves clean - Gemma reckons her hair is greasy (above).  But the shoot is moved to the house and seems to go off well.  However the problems of managing quads is a story likely to run for years!

Extra of the week was this delightful dog with santa hat!  Happy Christmas everyone.

Talking of bedtime activities, apparently a santa suit, hat and long white beard are what turn on Aggie Bailey.  According to Ed she was red hot!  So he is happy to continue as Santa - the factory buildings work will be slipping even further behind!

I have never borrowed money from a loan shark (yes all right I am lucky) but I always thought that they did not bother to write things down, so the implication that Gary was sending a loan agreement to a borrower (impersonated by the returning private eye) struck me as just slightly unusual.  Gary not being entirely stupid merely sent an envelope of blank paper - no evidence of anything!

If you are going to get Robert locked up for murder then do ensure that the missing person does not turn up in hospital with a baby.  Regrettably the strain tells on Vicky and we are treated to Michelle delivering the baby in the hotel room before the paramedics get there.  Further evidence of how slow traffic moves in Manchester.  Looks like Robert will be off the hook next week.

And Hope Stape is already a teenager as she gives her parents the full cheek.  It seems she wrecked the entirety of the Nativity Show and makes it clear that she had already told Fiz and Ty that she did not want to go.  They do not know of course that she has a mobile phone to stay in touch with Jade - and yet we suddenly see her pulling it out of her pocket.  They really ought to have spotted it so I blame poor parenting.

See you next week.


Written By: Cameron McAllister & Julie Jones (Monday); Martin Allen & Mark Burt (Wednesday); Jan McVerry & Steven Fay (Friday)
Directed By: Tim O'Mara (Monday); Nickie Lister (Wednesday & Friday)

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Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 20 September

Greetings Corrie fans it’s Kelly here with your later than usual Friday night Corrie review.

It’s the day of the Bailey housewarming/surprise birthday party which they’ve inexplicably decided to have in the middle of the afternoon. A sound system has been set up, rum punch has been mixed and Aggie has made some appalling canapes. The only thing missing is the birthday boy who’s refusing to come home until mysterious Bailey child Dee-Dee arrives. When Aggie gets a text saying she’s not coming, Mary resorts to desperate measures by rushing over to the builder’s yard to tell Ed his wife has had a heart-attack!  Given her taste for the dramatic I was quite surprised at how tame this was. I half expected Mary to claim the whole house had been swept away in a freak tornado or that one of the family was being eaten by a shark. 

Meanwhile back out on the (Mean) Street low-budget Robert DeNiro Gary is being ghosted by both Derek and Ryan. He finds out from Nick that Derek has agreed to a 25% rent reduction on the factory without his say so and then to add insult to injury spots him out on a date with Izzy. He gate-crashes their date in Speed Daal (anyone else wonder how Izzy got down the stairs in her chair?) and snarlingly tells Derek to finish with Izzy. When Izzy comes back to the table and sees Derek looking nervous, she encourages him to stand up to Gary saying that Derek is his boss and Gary needs him more. Will the gormless twit start to believe his own invented fantasy-life?

Back at the party Daniel arrives already preloaded on Corner Shop cheap vodka. And Bethany turns up looking like she’s based her look on 80’s Crystal Carrington. Hating the sympathetic looks he is getting from everyone Daniel gets stuck into the rum punch. As he dances badly with Jenny and Steve (who’s far more interested in embarrassing Emma by asking for selfies with Wethie County players), it becomes clear that Daniel’s totally bladdered. When Michael tries to get him to leave, he swings a punch at him, misses, and lands in the sound system. When Adam arrives to take him away Daniel breaks down and tells him he can’t cope.

Out in the Bailey backyard Bethany tries to kiss James and then throws a massive hissy fit when he knocks her back, leading him to blurt out that he’s gay. Taking the news in an extremely sensitive way she strops off back to the flat. Despite having done nothing wrong James goes to see her to explain. She accuses him of using her and pretty much shames him for not coming out. She also claims to have lots of gay friends. Not totally sure where she’s been hiding them for the last four years? I’ve seen her say hello to Billy twice a month, is she counting that? James tells her that he’s already subjected to prejudice from football fans for being black and being openly gay too would be a bridge too far. He’s also not sure how his dad would react.

Back with the uninvited Street residents Don Windass has a visit from Derek who tells him that he’d better be nice to him because he needs him to front the factory deal. Frustrated, Gary smashes a terrible mirror (because he’s dead hard and doesn’t care about seven years bad luck) and then threatens Ryan in full view of Jake. In other news Paul takes his frustration over Kel’s return out on a bemused Chesney. Sinead asks Beth to make her look beautiful in her coffin, reducing her aunt to tears and Shona finds out that Max has been bunking off school. 

Finally, Crystal Carrington Bethany has realised that other people do exist. She returns to the party with reapplied eyeliner and benevolently offers to be James’ beard, because she doesn’t have a love life and there might be some perks to being a footballer’s girlfriend. As this is basically a self-serving act wearing a cloak of altruism, I can only assume that she’s been hanging out with Michelle the Queen of the Universe for far too long. As the two make their pact they are unaware that Michael has overhead them…

How do we see this arrangement working out Corrie fans? Let me know in the comments or catch me on twitter @mskelstar.
See you in two weeks. Byeeeeee

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Corrie Comicals week ending 23 August 2019

On Monday with a Jonathan Harvey episode I was expecting something significant for this post.  But I feel for the writer as he had to deal with both the Geoff and Yasmeen nonsense and the re-appearance of the Nathan abuse story with the Lombardis dining in the Bistro.  So we are left with Edison super-gluing himself to the back door.  If he is an even part competent builder this simply would not happen.  It makes his wife and son laugh if no-one else!

Carmel Morgan took over for the second part of Monday and had to deal with the same stories added to which Craig was in a car accident.  So the best I can offer is Bernie (above) coming up with random reasons why Michael Bailey (borrowing a bottle opener) and Evelyn Plummer (borrowing sugar) are in Chutney's front room should Gemma (or Chutney presumably) return home unexpectedly.  Of course it ends up with both getting money out of the pregnancy test kit scam.  At this rate Bernie will make no money out of it.

We now know that Mary packs a Shewee when driving as she once had to improvise with a coke bottle in a three-miles tailback outside Keswick.  Having got stuck on the M1 trying to get into a service station for urgently needed relief in the middle of some poorly managed roadworks I can feel her pain!



And for a little fun on the left above is Fiona Middleton with Morgan and on the right is Morgan, now all grown up as he appeared on Wednesday evening!

Amy has just asked Liz if Steve and Tracy are due to have a row - when for the second time in this episode Steve is getting beaten around the head by some flowers.  This time it is just flowers in Tracy's hands - Emma used the "Dad" wreath to smash Steve around the head.  Steve had taken the precaution of removing the scissors from Tracy's hands prior to telling her of his "new" daughter!

Easily missed was the appearance of Tiny the unicorn catching hoops on his horn, except Tiny was appearing in the form of Adam.  Good game, good game.  Otherwise the party was ruined by the new devil child on the block - Max - and not even the spawn of David!

Emma is catching a train for Liverpool when Amy and Tracy turn up with Maria, Gemma and Chutney to stop her going.  Tracy puts her foot in it but as we were expecting Amy turns it around.  Emma protests she is not ready for a new dad and Amy makes it clear that after 15 years she is not ready for Steve either (above).

And Mrs Bailey has been taken on at Roy's Rolls where she burns some eggs.  When she gets home she serves up sausage and mash with the sausages so overdone they are black.  Does anyone really cook that badly when they have grown up children?

Extra at Work

He looks like Minty from Enders but as Cathy was proclaiming about the dirty table his eyes were flicking around all over the place in the background.  An acting masterclass!


Writers: Jonathan Harvey & Carmel Morgan (Monday); Debbie Oates (Wednesday); Julie Jones & Steven Fay (Friday)
Directors: Duncan Foster (Monday); Durno Johnston (Wednesday & Friday)

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