Exclusive first look - new meerkat mini movies

Here's an exclusive preview of the next release of Corrie meerkat mini movies that celebrate comparethemarket.com’s proud sponsorship of Coronation Street.

 

Aleksandr and Sergei try and re-enact popular scenes from the movie screens: practicing kung-fu on the rooftops to policing the mean streets of Weatherfield. One thing is for sure, nobody puts Aleksandr in a corner… of Roy’s Rolls!

 

Watch below to view all 12 action packed idents. You can see them all here first before they're on telly in Sunday’s omnibus episode of Coronation Street.

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Exclusive: First look at new Baby Oleg videos

With thanks to Coronation Street sponsor Compare the Meerkat toys, we have the exclusive first look at the new Baby Oleg meerkat videos.

There are four videos in this playlist, they're all very short and sweet.

The new Baby Oleg videos will appear on TV this Wednesday, 9th April 2014.


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Competition to win Baby Oleg meerkat toy

He's cute, he's tiny, he's Baby Oleg the new meerkat. And thanks to Coronation Street sponsor Compare the Meerkat Toys, we have a Baby Oleg to give away in an exclusive competition here on the Coronation Street Blog.

All you have to do to be in with a chance to win Baby Oleg is answer the following question correctly and send your answer by email to me at glenda.young@btinternet.com with BABYOLEG in your email subject line.  One winner will be drawn at random from all correct entries received and announced on our website after the closing date.

This competition is open only to UK fans and the deadline for entries is Saturday 22 March 2014 at 12 noon.

Here is your question, good luck!  You can find the answer on the Compare the Meerkat website.

Q1: What is Baby Oleg's toy called?

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Exclusive: New Baby Oleg meerkat videos

With thanks to Compare the Meerkat toys, we have exclusive videos of new baby Oleg to show you, before they go live on ITV.  

We'll be having a competition very soon to win the new Baby Oleg meerkat toy - stay tuned!

Toys



Grub Toy



Babysitter



Bottle



Night-time



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BLOG EXCLUSIVE: All-new Meerkats on Coronation Street

Sound the klaxon, this is a blog exclusive, you won't have seen these anywhere else in the world, not yet anyway, as we here at the Coronation Street Blog have been given the exclusive rights to post these new meerkat adverts first before they hit TV tomorrow night, Friday 8 March.

So with thanks to the lovely people at Compare the Meerkat at http://meerkat.comparethemarket.com/coronation-street for your delectation, here's the new "idents" from Coronation Street's new sponsor.  They'll be seen on TV for the fisrt time tomorrow night and you can get your first look at them here.

Keep following us as we'll be offering meerkat goodies to be won in another exclusive competition too.

Since arrive on Coronation Street we have been fit in like paw in glove. It was only matter of time before we start acting like locals…

Alex is Barred:


Happy Wedding:


Bogdan Breaks a Vase:


Last Night’s Takings:


Kabin Ending:



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Video: The meerkats take a Coronation Street tour

If you're a fan of the meerkat band, you might like this short and sweet promo video from Coronation Street's new sponsor, comparethemarket.com.

If you haven't seen the meerkat band playing the Coronation Street theme tune, it's here. 

And now the meerkats take their first tour of Coronation Street.

 And there are even more Corrie meerkat videos on YouTube here.

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Winners announced in our meerkats competion

Congratulations to two lucky Coronation Street Blog readers and two lucky Corrie.net readers who have each one a meerkat from Coronation Street's new sponsor http://www.comparethemarket.com

One meerkat each will  be winging its way this week to Clare Lewis, Faye Talbot, Jo Johnson and Jo Hutchinson. Well done to the winners and thank you to everyone who entered.

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Meerkat band play the Coronation Street theme tune

The meerkats are coming to Coronation Street. Have a look at the video of the meerkats playing the Corrie theme tune... and YOU can win one of four meerkats here! 

Yup, Coronation Street's new sponsor is http://www.comparethemarket.com

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Competition! WIN a meerkat

As you may know already, Coronation Street's new sponsor takes over very soon - it's http://www.comparethemarket.com  Find out more here.

You can win one of the Compare the Market meerkats in a special competion we're running in conjunction with Corrie.net

We have two meerkats on this website to be won and two on Corrie.net

Meerkats you can win are those shown above - Vassily /  Bogdan  /  Sergei /  Alexandr 

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one of these two meerkats with the Coronation Street Blog is to answer the following two questions correctly and email your answer to glenda.young@btinternet.com with MEERKATS in your subject line. 

Q1: On the Coronation Street Blog, what is the title of one of our Coronation Street Christmas 2012 spoilers?

Q2: What school does meerkat Bogdan attend?

Good luck!

Deadline for entries is  Friday 23 November 2012 at 11pm. 
Entries from UK addresses only please. 
Entries from moneysavingsexpert, Loquax and all other competition entry websites will not be included.
Two winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries received on this website and two from corrie.net.

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Watch the new Coronation Street adverts

As well as offering a competition to win a trip the Coronation Street set, Harveys the furniture store have some short and sweet videos on their site showing how they made the new Corrie ads.

You can watch them online right here.