Coronation Street Episode Review Thursday 25 June 2026

Well I remain confused.  It seems that because of round objects we are on soap starvation diet at present and so I thought I would write up what I believe to have been Wednesday and Thursday episodes which have been scrunched together on Thursday evening.  Following the revelation that Sarah attacked Theo with a pole and left him lying in the yard before summoning Gary to help stay out of the arms of the police (well obviously not Kit's arms because Sarah knows he was going to propose and now she is just waiting for it to happen and then she can fall into his arms) probably about 5 minutes before Lisa comes knocking.  Meanwhile Kit (who "knows" that it is Gary wot dunnit) has an argument with Gary in front of Todd.  Gary hardly striving to contain himself advises Todd, once Kit has gone, that it is a shame Kit cannot see what is under his own nose.  Some weeks seconds later Todd's brain kicks into gear and he goes in search of Sarah-Lou as she is definitely under Kit's nose.  

Susie gets to talk to Megan on the console and she calmly reports that Will has a new girlfriend "Minimog16" so we have the inevitable scene when one of the known killers on the Street, Maggie, tears his headphones off to find he is innocently chatting to Hope.  Will realises that he cannot keep the pretence going so meets Megan on the top of Buffy Street car park where she begs him not to send her to jail.  He asks her bluntly how her attempt to run away demonstrated her love for his and walks away from her.

Asha is supported by her family over moving into the flat above the shop.  Nina is finding it impossible to tell Roy as it is Scrabble Thursday; last week Nina scored 16 with cinnamony.  Luckily when Roy pops into the Kabin Bernie is trying to buy a new home card which allows her and Brian to break the news that Nina is planning to fly the coop.  Inevitably Roy takes it well and finds a lovely train teapot (out of stock at the NRM shop) as a new home present.  Summer goes into overdrive spending a fortune on an espresso coffee machine, and a toaster and a slushie machine (as well as some designer clothes for herself) to get them settled in.  They forsake the standard new house celebration of fish, chips and champagne for dinner in the Bistro and another random diner invites them out for a night clubbing but only Summer accepts.

Jodie got herself all dressed up for a hot date which turned out to be Ryan and as David was sat at the Bistro bar she went into overdrive mode inventing the word dunch to cover a meal happening midway between lunch and dinner.  It cannot matters help that Amy Barlow is waitress of the day!  Ryan paid up and summed it up that perhaps they were better as mates living around the corner from each other than anything more.  Crossing Jodie is not the brightest move on the chessboard.  

So Todd's brain kicked into overdrive and he went for a chat with Sarah who cracks completely and tells him about Theo's last moments and the way she aided his attempt at learning to fly.  Todd is insistent on knowing why she did not ring him conveniently forgetting that his phone was in a skip at the time.  Todd is upset with Sarah as it meant that Todd was unable to face Theo himself.  We then spend half the episode wondering if Todd is going to turn Sarah into the police - but of course he can't do that given their history with Todd moping around facing the same conundrum.  At this rate everyone bar Kit and Lisa will know the killer soon.  Sarah has another drinking session in the Rovers and Nick is given little help to rescue her.  Todd and Sarah have a chat in the Rovers yard and he admits he cannot turn her in, but at the moment he does not like her very much.  

Once Nick gets Sarah back to the Platt house Jodie makes coffee to help Sarah to sober up as the tills have stopped working in the Bistro and Nick has to go in..  However Jodie then says it is good that David is not barking like he was on the night that Sarah was attacked - her being there must be so triggering.  Sarah agrees it is a good David is not barking.  Jodie suddenly realises she has said something it would have been wiser not to say.   

Written by Jan McVerry and Nessah Muthy.  Directed by Sarah Kendell.

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Episode Review Friday 24 October 2025

Good evening.  I cannot remember if I am supposed to like Todd or hate him.  Whichever it is he is an idiot for buying Harry a milk shake, allowing him to have it on the back seat of the car which enables the whole car to be reeking of milk shake when it inevitably goes everywhere.  Todd loses the keys to the car (or is Theo gaslighting him by hiding them).  Todd then scratches the car against some metalwork in the car park as he is driving whilst on the phone.  Then he lies to Theo about where the car is parked, although Kev, currently working alone, due to the missus having sodded off with the brother and the partner having had an accident which may well have been down to his brother, being unable to fix it passing Todd a message about the car not being repaired until tomorrow via Theo who does not take kindly to Todd's lying.  Theo extracts his revenge by pouring a bottle of chocolate milk over Todd.  Frankly by the end of it I do not want to watch either of them do anything.

Cassie attempts to make peace with Tyrone and Fiz by buying them lunch at the Bistro.  She demonstrates that she was never mother material insisting on cutting up Ty's pizza so hard it ends up on the floor after demonstrating how not to get a wheelchair through a crowd and how not to talk to the invalid by asking Fiz about him.  Needless to say the reconciliation will be even longer in arriving than it was before.  During the meal a miscreant makes off with Fiz's handbag and instantly Ollie (who is dining with Dee Dee at an adjacent table) takes off after him like greased lightning.  Despite the head start Ollie returns with the handbag and all contents and is accorded hero status.  Given Ollie suggested they go to the Bistro it strikes me that the whole thing is a setup - am I just too suspicious these days?  

Dev is at odds with both his children and Bernie.  Bernie and Gemma are preparing for the quads party and perhaps Dev and Asha will come to it and talk.  However Bernie has reached the point where she does not think that she and Dev can get past this so all the indications are that it will be one of the shortest marriages ever.  Dev has similar forebodings as he tells Cassie.

Carl is trying to make himself useful and eventually Debbie agrees to employ him.  He almost gets Abi involved in stealing a car - but she realises that Alfie needs her and cannot go through with it.  Carl is eventually employed by Debbie and before the episode is out is trying to hack into her supplier accounts possibly to rip her off, or at least that is what it looked like; I may be wrong.  

Hope is fed up with Jake staring at her at school and she thinks she lets him down gently - because after all there is a three year age gap.  Even Gary spots that Jake seems soft on Hope and warns him off.  So doing the usual maths of 2 + 2 = 5 I wonder if it is Jake that is sending those hateful messages to Hope that we saw last week?  Pure speculation.

I will be away next weekend so will not be here.  Maybe, just maybe I will miss an episode of sweetness and light and lives in a Mancunian back street - this week was closer to that perhaps but it really lacked light among the cesspit of human behaviour being reported in terms of Theo and Carl.  Which is worst - I leave you to judge.

Written by Joe Turner and Carmel Morgan .  Directed by Vicky Thomas.

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Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 15 August 2025

After months of not being mentioned Dorin turned up tonight so that Steve could lose him playing hide and seek.  The whole world thought he had gone off in the broken fridge but luckily he was hiding in the back yard outhouse from which he emerged to swear Carl to secrecy.  Hope does not know her phone contains a picture compromising Carl and Abi as well as Ty's backside so when it falls out of a biscuit tin into a sink of water from which it might emerge working she is not amused.  Dorin was then allowed out of the shed and everyone, except Abi, was thankful he had been found - she worked out that Carl knew where he was and cannot trust him again.  However given his failure to look after Dorin Steve is homeless.  Hope is pretty tech savvy and it will all be backed up in the cloud, although she says not.  Hope however does not trust Carl - she thinks he did it on purpose - so at least she has something right.

Now that Ryan is living with Aunty Carla he can be told her secrets such as her intention to propose to Lisa.  She sets up the ring in the glass of champagne with Glenda for later.  Along the way we are reminded of Ty's proposal to Molly using the same trick where another couple in the same restaurant had a mariachi band to support the proposal!  Lisa eventually arrives at the Rovers and recounts how Becky proposed with a ring in a glass of champagne at which point Carla just about stops Glenda repeating the same trick.  Lisa wants to visit California so perhaps Carla could propose there?  It will be Carla's sixth wedding - she married Peter twice.  

Alya is finally looking for a job.  However the application goes nowhere.  Dee Dee misses Laila rolling over for the first time as reported by James.  So Dee Dee comes over all motherly and decides she has to go part time.  She tells Adam the solution is to employ Alya as a legal assistant as she needs a job and they need another pair of hands, even if Adam is sleeping with her.  

The fallout from the attack on Noah continues.  Danielle is convinced that Theo is responsible for the attack and bans Theo from seeing the children; plus Lisa Swain invites Theo down to the station to answer a few questions about the attack under full caution.  Noah did not see his attacker.  Theo claims he was at home all evening with Todd who confirms the alibi.  Gary does not admit he did it - but the way he is talking it looks like that he was in fact responsible, but later both Todd and Theo wonder what sort of monster they have released in Gary.  

Ronnie thinks Debbie joining a dementia choir might be a good idea.  And is it likely that Debbie will consider it a good idea?  An inevitable row follows which gets worse when Ronnie shows little interest in wedding rings - which he was not planning to wear after the wedding.  Eventually there is compromise on both sides.

And in news which I did not want to hear Carl tells Abi he does not want "this" to end.  Worse - nor does Abi as she wants it to go on forever.  These two are just so wrong.  Please end this story next week.

Just to note that the last gig Roy attended was the Spinners in 1978 (possibly 14 October - Manchester Free Trade Hall £1).  Farewell concert in 2021.  

Written by Chris Fewtrell and Simon Crowther.  Directed by Richard Lynn.

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