Corrie Comicals week ending 1 May 2020

Much of this week revolved around the occupants of Number 6 and to be perfectly honest until I cannot include either of them here.  I think we will miss Liz.  She claimed on Monday to be 28 (and her face does look remarkably smooth) - so Eileen was checking behind her ears for signs of a facelift.  In lockdown I gather that Beverly Callard is laying parquet flooring - I bet she is desperate to return to work!  Liz went on to discuss "Spammy Pammy" and events which happened many decades ago!

The boiler has broken at Number One and Tracy is lumbered even though she has not bought the house yet and she is not asking Ken (who looks well settled in his corner chair) to open his wallet in fear of the moths which would fly out.  And I just about managed to catch Tracy's face!

Gary does not want people overhearing his pack of lies about how he knows Kelly's mother and pleasingly even Maria, far from the sharpest pair of scissors in the hairdressers, who has noticed that he has a "dead busy shop"!  Maria with that fringe it is very easy for Gary to keep your eyes covered up - please wake up and smell the dead bodies!

Nice touch from Ken.  He gets a text message from Tracy summoning him to a meeting and he pretends he is scared and does some pretend shaking.  No Ken is not scared of his daughter and indeed as she will soon find out he has the perfect solution to the broken boiler!  Ken is back and Number One remains in his hands.

In the Rovers and Carla has asked what Geoff, Yasmeen, Tim and Sally are celebrating - the money Geoff has skimmed off of Speed Dahl to pay for the rewedding of his son.  Tim's response is above!  And that was the best I could manage from Friday.

Can I just remind people that originally Yasmeen was a power house, I never quite believed her being blind sided by her husband and best friend for "years" allegedly and given her intelligence I just don't think she would have fallen for this treatment.  But then who knows what happens behind closed doors?

Written by: Jonathan Harvey (Monday & Wednesday) and Jan McVerry (Friday)
Directed by: Brett Fallis (Monday & Wednesday) and Diana Patrick (Friday).

Kosmo
@Kosmo100

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Coronation Street Episode Review; Weds 22nd April 7.30 pm

Has it been a week already since Aadi's personality/head transplant? You'd be forgiven for thinking it had been longer, the way this new actor has cemented himself on the cobbles. I think he will fit in well? Undoubtedly his soap sister Asha has put in some stellar performances recently, but what’s next in this viral video scandal?  Corey has convinced Asha that he didn't click ‘send’ on the WhatsApp group but will he escape unscathed?. We, viewers, know it was Kelly of course and Amy soon finds out. To quote Harry Hill ... fight!! That's the second one in as many episodes! I love this new side of Amy as well. She gets more like her mother every day, and you know me - I'm a huge fan of our Tracy so it bodes well! Glad to see gangster Gary back. Kelly is going to be a bit of a hindrance for him, isn't she?

With the video going viral it was obvious that the other kids on the street would soon get wind of it and Simon Barlow is well in the mix. Is Max a bit too young for that kind of content, or am I getting old? Anyway, It's a good way to get Dev to find out as David spills the beans.

Wedding fever has hit Sally and Tim, and they ask Abi and Kev to be their respective best man/woman at their forthcoming second nuptials. It's even more pleasing that in real life, Joe Duttine (who plays Tim) has just got engaged to Sally Carmen (who plays Abi), congrats guys! I like that sort of thing, I call it ‘soap serendipity’. In the programme, however, Tim is strapped for cash so Geoff offers to cough up more of Yasmeen's dosh. It also means he has to ask his dad to be his best man, but what about Kev? I wonder if it's the financial that's going to bring Geoff down or a culmination of his various nefarious goings-on?

Also at The Rovers, Johnny squirms in Scott's presence having finally been introduced by Jenny, it appears these two have a previous history, any guesses as to what that could be?
Fleeing to France to see Eva is always a good idea ( I miss that lass!), but he will have to come back eventually? I'd love to see a spin-off where Johnny, Jenny, and Eva are in a Corona lockdown in Paris! And what is Scott's intention with Liz? Is this Liz’s exit story?

Fresh from an election victory, Ken’s reluctance to take up the Stillwater podium has (metaphorically) rippled the waters of his relationship with Claudia somewhat. Admitting to her that he’s getting homesick and prompted by Dierdre's peanut bowl debacle, Ken admits that it's over and he wants to get back to Weatherfield alone.

Is this the end of the fabulous Claudia Colby on the cobbles? I can't see Ken being a fan of Tracy’s huge canvas prints, so where does this leave things at N0.1 Coronation Street?

Finding out about the video, Dev is truly mortified and is in massive shock, upon finding out about Asha's video. Heavy words are lightly thrown, but, as a Father of a daughter myself, I can certainly understand it.

The biggest shock of tonight though is revealed by Ken, as he arrives back at N0.1 and announces he’s left Claudia and moving back in. I can't see Tracy liking this!

What did you think of tonight’s Corrie? let me know.
I am @rybazoxo your {self-styled} ‘cobbles connoisseur’

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Coronation Street Episode Review Friday 17 April

Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.

Over at No. 1 the teenage party is still going on, much to Amy’s dismay. Unfortunately, poor Asha is about to have a far worse night as unbeknown to her a vicious Kelly has forwarded the video of her stripping for Corey to the entire party group. The other teenagers start to stare and whisper, but before Asha can work out what is going on, Aggie arrives threatening to call the police, quickly followed by Dev who drags her and Aadi out.

Meanwhile in the Rovers, Liz (who appears to have taken to dressing in a curtain) is flirting with newcomer Scott with all the subtlety of Freddie Krueger in a room full of balloons. Johnny, on the other hand, seems so keen to avoid him that he suggests to Jenny that they immediately run off to visit Eva in France. What is their story? In another booth, Evelyn and Arthur bond over their shared love of environmental protest. I’m enjoying Evelyn’s new glam look. Could she give Liz some style tips?

In other news, over at Stillwaters Ken has his ego dented by losing his fencing match to Charles. As he sulks, Norris reveals that while Charles was distracted, he pinched the Stillwaters’ Rule Book from his sports bag. Reading through the book, Ken, Claudia and Norris discover that there’s no cleaning charges or parking charges and that its ok to walk on the grass. Ken looks forward to exposing Charles’ fraud to the rest of the residents.

In other news, Leanne continues her campaign to take Michelle Connor’s place as the most self-righteous shrew on the Street. She spends the entire episode nagging Steve about what a terrible irresponsible father he is to Oliver, which is quite a high horse for someone who raised the hardly whiter-than-white Simon. She then has the audacity to look genuinely surprised when Steve snaps and tells her he’s fed up with her always laying down the law and responds by telling him they should get their solicitors involved.

Back at the party, Aggie has called the police, who arrive just as Tracy, Steve and Peter come around the corner. With Tracy raging at her daughter over her broken lamp and ruined throw, Peter manages to get in a brilliant dig about Tracy’s adolescence: "Don't worry about her, she's only jealous, her idea of a teenage party was pressing 'play' on a tape recorder". If Amy could have called her mum a “rotten cowing tart” this would have been the perfect episode for me!

Over at No. 7 as Aadi pukes up his stolen vodka a devastated Asha finds that everyone has seen her naked pictures and that Pastel-Blue and her horrible cronies are trolling her and calling her a skank. Poor Asha, it’s hard being a teenager these days. In my formative years you’d be lucky/unlucky if even one person bought a camera to a party. Then it could take months to develop the film. If you’d had a terrible perm or overdone it on the Sun-In you could have grown it out by the time there was any photographic evidence. Now every little dick can broadcast your mistakes on the internet faster than you can say millennial.

And that’s it for this week. See you back here in a fortnight or read more of my gibberish on twitter @mskelstar.

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Corrie Comicals Week Ending 5 July 2019

Maria is pretending to be Robert de Niro from Taxi Driver - nice to see her doing some acting for once - but earlier she said she had back to back appointments (I certainly never book an appointment when I head to the barbers - it helps that these days I do not have much hair) and yet "Trim Up North" is empty - apart from Dr Ali who has rematerialised on the Street after weeks in another dimension.  She claims to have had a cancellation but I don't think ITV could afford the extras this week.

Emma and Maria are setting up an online dating profile for the latter.  Maria is being brutally honest - single mum & "unlucky in love" - Emma suggests the latter sounds like a jinx and Maria (whom Emma reckons could pass for 22) points out that Gail is so jinxed that her husbands have got their own vault in Southern Cemetery.

Much of Monday's episode was Geoff cracking "jokes".  As the storyline they have given him is to my mind at the least unwelcome it will not get coverage here in any form.

Beth and Izzy have been winding up Peter who tells them that to protect Carla he is going to seek power of attorney over her affairs.  Carla wanders into the Rovers just before he makes this announcement and we suddenly see a spark of the old Carla as she snaps out of her woolly head and stomps out.  Beth and Izzy cackle at Peter having been caught out!

Earlier in "Trim Up North" Maria had been asking Tyrone why they split up - with Ali listening.  As Ali observes he did think she was going a bit far when she applied the electric clamps to Tyrone's nipples to get answers!  She fails to spot that Ali seems extremely interested in a single mother who could pass for 22!

I have been waiting for something like this since Dev departed.  Evelyn has a special offer on tinned mandarins (Nick and Paula are discussing David's allegation that Nick sabotaged the factory roof due to his brain damage) but this does not stop Evelyn suggesting that the mandarins are good with evaporated milk (does anyone still consume evaporated milk?) or in a trifle.  She does not manage a sale!

It would appear that Liz is not au fait with Beth's recent success with her photograph in the local newspaper competition; as far as Weatherfield is concerned Beth is in indeed the local David Bailey, even if the lesson on photographing animals is not until next week and that Steve is not chatting up the new shareholder employee of Underworld - he just wants a picture of Rover.  (Remember Beth originally arrived as an ex-girlfriend of Steve's many moons ago).

Writers: Ella Greenhill & Chris Fewtrell (Monday); Sam Holdsworth & Carmel Morgan (Wednesday): Jonathan Harvey & Alasdair Morrison (Friday)
Directors: Penelope Shales-Slyne (Monday & Wednesday): Lee Trevor (Friday)

Kosmo
@Kosmo100

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