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Monday, 19 September 2022

Coronation Street Episode Review Sunday 18 September 2022

The big news washing around t'Street is that as we might all have guessed after that sterling performance in the witness box Toyah is officially "Not Guilty". She is now prepared to become even more involved in Griff and Spider's attempts to ensure that the climate does not change - or is there perhaps an even more significant aim which Griff is pursuing - DC Spider certainly seems to think that the months he has been spending infiltrating the "organisation" means that the plan is not just about climate change but insurrection on a far more significant scale.

On Thursday we saw Kelly planning to phone Sharon Geary who openly admits to Aadi that she did kneecapping and money laundering for Rick Neelan (oh, she was only joking apparently). Kelly has all the plans for her engagement party including photo booth and balloon arch and many other things ready for when the good times will roll. However Jay turns up with a bag of items which Laura (Kelly's mum) had left behind in Spain. After some discussion with Aadi she opens it and finds a camera with some photos of Laura enjoying the Spanish sun on 17 June 2019 which as we all know is the date on which she claimed to kill Rick - in this country - so apparently she has an alibi for the date of the murder. Kelly cannot forget this and asks Sharon about the discrepancy - who initially claims that maybe the camera is broken. Sharon has been made uneasy by the closeness between Kelly and Gary feels that she has to warn Kelly about Gary and then passes on the critical information that Gary murdered Rick.

Jenny is preparing for her departure to Canada and needs to appoint a manager of the Rovers. Needless to say Daisy is keen to follow in the footsteps of Annie, Bet, Liz and Jenny (no mention of the Duckeggs, Natalie Barnes or the Price family I note, or Fred, I say Fred Elliott). Jenny says she has not decided and meanwhile we are entertained by Glenda on a first probationary shift as Stephen gives her a £10 note which he claims is a £20 and so ends up with a half and more money than he had before. Glenda knows she has been diddled but Jenny will not hear a word. Jenny then announces that Gemma is the new manager - but it turns out to be a wind-up once Gemma has announced the animal print makeover she wants to give the Rovers.

Having worked in a bar I know that you go nowhere near anyone with two full pints in their hands - but Daisy learns the hard way when most of a pint is split over her clean dress by Glenda - at this point Daisy wants Glenda's shift and employment terminated immediately! Glenda redeems herself by escorting a potentially argumentative drunk for the pub and upselling Peter from a packet of crisps to a hotpot. As Daisy really is the new manager she is able to confirm that Glenda has a permanent job and is officially a Rovers bar person, thanks to that self defence class on a cruise ship.

Alya and Stu meet a solicitor who knows that Weatherfield cop shop is rotten to the core (well we know even Craig has had doubts) and reels off a list of wrong convictions. She also wants £15k to re-open the case files and just at the moment that is beyond the Nazir family fortunes. So Alya and Zee retreat to Adam's office and start re-reading all the witness statements to see if they missed anything the first time around.

Gary wants the dynamic duo Liam and Jake to go to bed and observes that Kelly will have them as page boys at the wedding if they don't go. Being the wrong side of Kelly is not good for you Gary observes - when she is angry she is proper scary - just look at that face!

With my imminent holiday I will miss Jenny's departure and I cannot believe she is going. It has been heavily signalled that all hell will break out at the party on Wednesday so stay tuned for all that and more. I will be back in a couple of weeks.

Written by Mark Wadlow and Julie Jones. Directed by Emma Lindley.

Kosmo

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Saturday, 23 July 2022

Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 22 July 2022

Street residents manage to keep a secret! The Platt family gather in the Bistro to astound Audrey. Many hints are dropped and eventually Audrey is escorted under blindfold to her own salon which the family have redecorated and refitted ready for Audrey to re-open once she signs the lease with Debbie. Yes the family have decided that at age 82, Audrey should go back to work. Needless to say even though they have phoned Stephen and asked him to come back Audrey appears just a little underwhelmed and frankly who can blame her? She tells them she is feeling tired and is off to Grasmere Drive for 40 winks but when Gail pops round later there is no sign of her.

Kelly and Gary are apparently free of any retribution from the man she bopped over the head and she gets around to going on that date with Aadi. You know sometimes it is a little too soon to make a joke over a recent event - well Aadi does when he tries to joke about the abduction and encounter with a rope and a radiator as it might get told to the grandchildren; Kelly is not laughing yet. Luckily for him Stu can see that Aadi is getting in a stew over his first (and probably last) date with Kelly so Fairy Godfather Stu delivers sweet samosas to lighten the mood and Yasmeen reckons that Kelly is lucky to have him looking after her.

Stu is being an all-round good egg today offering to cover for Zeedan so that the latter can head off to Greece with friends and give Stu an opportunity to reminisce over the time spent in Athens with his daughter (whom we recall is no longer living where he thought she was). Yasmeen decides that all the good turns deserve recognition and she goes into Voggle search to track and trace the missing daughter, so far without any obvious success.

Jack tells Kev that he needs some help with a presentation and his father agrees to help him at lunchtime. Come lunchtime Abi is able to announce that she is coming home next week so Kev decides to cook her favourite meal - a chicken curry - and he cannot help Jack who strops off rather than do his work and has a kick around in the back yard. His ball ends up in Evelyn's lap but she does not ritually disembowel it with a carving knife, but when Jack comes round she hands it back. Jack is rather glad as he tells Ruby that he is not Evelyn's grandson and in a scene we do not see I rather think he explains that Molly, then Ty's wife', was his mother.

The many headed hydra of the annulment document keeps appearing. Initially Phill reminds Fiz (who only has one z) that today is the last day of the two weeks and has decided they should go for couple counselling as his last attempt at trying to patch things up. Amazingly the only counsellor available in Weatherfield is the one which Ty and Fiz have been seeing. She suggests Fiz might have some secret that she wants to tell Phill but Fiz gently steers the conversation elsewhere. Phill repairs to the Rovers where Evelyn disposes some wise words of advice and Phill might sign the document; except that he realises he has left his phone in the counsellor's office. He finds Fiz and Ty there and the annulment is annulled.

After a bit of a shout Phill goes back to the Street and sits down with Evelyn who once again points out that he has a lot going for him and he will find a decent partner and suggests he has a chance to say good bye to Hope and Ruby. Hope obviously feels that the need not to tell the entire truth has gone and informs Phill of where Fiz spent her wedding night. Phill storms along to the Rovers where he finds Ty and Fiz announcing their re-union and tears up the annulment, throws it up in the air and tells them they are going to have to wait 12 months until he can sue Fiz for a divorce.

Getting home, Gail phones Audrey who re-assures her that she had simply popped out for some milk and to stop fussing. The camera tells a different story - not of Audrey at home but in a bed in A&E being questioned by a medic who seems to believe that she had ingested an excess number of sleeping pills and wants her to see a psychiatric liaison officer on the morrow.

Poor Phill had his chain yanked in so many directions tonight that it all seemed a little unfair. The man has done nothing wrong really; Fiz may yet come to regret taking Ty back and wait until the children decide to use their new knowledge to their advantage. Audrey has not been happy for ages and with that family I can see her wanting to go to Switzerland sooner rather than later. Kev you need to keep your promises to Jack or it will all go pear-shaped. Yasmeen - be careful - Stu's daughter may not want to be found.

Tonight was written by David Isaac and Chris Fewtrell, whilst it was directed by Penelope Shales-Slyne.

Kosmo

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Saturday, 13 March 2021

Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 12 March 2021

The big "I am " Jacob gets his comeuppance this week. He has clearly been dipping into the pot created by the pot and his little scam of blaming other people comes to an end when bigger boss Harvey picks him up and carts him off. Jacob is later reported to be in a serious state in hospital. Harvey (above) decides that Simon is responsible for Jacob's theft and now owes about £2k - so he had better do extra drug runs and take over Jacob's patch as he won't be returning any time soon. Leanne gets close to talking Simon into going to the police and they are about to head to the police station.

Nina and Roy have a heart to heart - he advises telling the truth and Nina's truth is that she does not feel quite the same way about Asha as Asha feels about her which Roy recommends needs to be said to Asha. Nina carries through on it and not surprisingly Asha does not take it well breaking off all relations with Nina and stomping off to see Summer and Kelly who is not finding it easy in the children's home to which Gary has inadvertently condemned her by offing Rick Neelan (in case you had forgotten). Asha is flush with Dev's cash (I assume his financial problems are over) so instead of a night in a hotel with Nina she hands it over to Kelly who buys some odd pills from Simon which he found under the sofa as cackhanded Jacob had dropped them, so technically he has not stolen them(!). Kelly decides to try them in Billy's flat before Asha and Summer return from the shop so they find her passed out on the sofa. The inevitable hospital trip follows where it established that there is a bad batch of ecstasy in circulation at present. Summer seems to get off lightly from Billy but Asha has to admit to Dev that she funded the drug purchase. And who is there to look after poor Kelly? Much later Dev tries to be understanding with Asha and her split from Nina and they talk about the evil of drugs.

In other news Peter is on his way home and Ken is insisting he returns to Number One, despite Steve's comments about Carla needing to make a life with Lucas. Steve keeps trying to apologise, buying chocolates and calling Peter his mate - but no parsnips are getting buttered.

Abi is absolutely insistent that they do not take up Debbie's offer of the hotel for their wedding and are looking at various other venues, one of which has floor to ceiling windows (apparently in warehouse)! Kev fancies Abi and the freebie. Luckily Kev got his property back - I suppose he has the money for a flash wedding now. Kev keeps putting off telling Debbie that they are not accepting the freebie - but by the time he does Abi has already texted with full details of the place (above) they are planning to have the wedding (I will believe it when I see it).

Aggie is in Birmingham and Ronnie has a new job and somewhere local to live. Turns out that he has moved into the Rovers and he and Ed have a few drinks. As ever there is a reason for Aggie not liking Ronnie - probably because he always tempts Ed into drinking too much according to James who does not join the drinking session as he has training (I thought he was being transferred for big bucks - did I miss something). Ronnie and Ed reminisce over some old stories and set up a little of the background between them. Perhaps the Baileys are really a family and not simply issue based story lines. Anyway when Aggie finally gets hold of a slightly tipsy Ed the latter has to attempt to sound sober (above) and almost certainly fails.

However before Simon and Leanne leave for the police station Chesney arrives looking for someone to cover a shift at the chip shop and they hear from him the news that Kelly is in hospital with an overdose, staying in overnight getting rid of some dangerous toxins. Simon realises that he had the bad drugs and sold them to Kelly earlier (above) so if he goes to the police his chances of survival are below zero when Harvey catches up with him, not to mention the plod doing him for dealing. Harvey phones Simon and insists on seeing the lad tomorrow. Leanne offers to go in place of Simon but Simon says would be very dangerous; Leanne says she is going to pay Harvey off - although they do not have the money. Leanne is insistent she is going to be a mother and sort this out!

So kids be careful. Get mixed up in drugs and you get to meet foul men called Harvey (I thought he was a big white rabbit) and end up in hospital one way or another. Don't do drugs - a whole hour dedicated to an anti-drugs message this evening, come on Corrie where is your Northern laugh along sensibilities, this is not why we watch. The best bit of tonight was almost out of Benidorm - "rice and chips" - good Northern chips of course!

For those who have been following my obsession about the wooden construction above - that is the site of the former information office which is to become George's new funeral parlour - but the building work all started some weeks before he commenced looking for premises and actually showed an interest in the site. Which just goes to prove that building work takes longer than anyone expects, although now doubt George will move in next week having noted that the Street has a very high proportion of superannuated residents and the area regularly sees the deaths of local residents of any age!

Today's update was brought to you courtesy of Boom Radio hosted by the wonderful Jenny Hanley reminiscing about Winnie-the-Pooh in Latin! Yes that Jenny Hanley of Magpie fame!

Written by Debbie Oates and Ellen Taylor and directed by Karl Neilson.

Kosmo

@Kosmo100