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.
The full advertisement featuring Take That singer and songwriter Gary Barlow, made to publicise Coronation Street sponsor's first year anniversary with Compare the Meerkat Toys, will be aired on TV on Sunday 24 November at 8pm.
Aw, the Meerkats! Everyone loves the Meerkats, right? They're so cute, with their strange Russian accents and quizzical faces and little smoking jackets. Adorbs!
NO. These little break bumpers have been creeping me out for some time, and it's just getting worse.
At first it was sweet - the meerkat characters wandering round Coronation Street, poking their heads in the Kabin, reading the menu at the Bistro. Then I began to wonder: where were all the people? Where were all the residents?
A completely empty Rovers, for example. When has that ever happened? Even when they had no electricity a few months ago, the bar was still rammed with residents trying to stop Rita from finding an excuse to sing. There is no-one in that pub, not even Stella offering to help Vassily with his darts because it turns out she's an expert on that as well.
The truth is obvious.
These supposedly "humorous" vignettes are actually set in a post-apocalyptic Weatherfield. This is Manchester after all the humans have been consumed by ravenous Meerkats hell-bent on global domination.
I mean, look. Would Gail McIntyre really let a filthy rodent into her home? One she wasn't related to, anyway? She's far too houseproud to let that happen. And she definitely wouldn't let an animal finger her biscuit barrel; Gail's Rich Teas are strictly monitored. She counts them in and counts them out, and God help you if you try to sneak one in before your tea. But there is a meerkat, bold as brass, dunking her biscuits in her china.
The only explanation for how this occurred is that Gail is somehow... indisposed. What horrible fate have the residents been condemned to?
Oh, the horror.
Each of these supposedly "sweet" films actually show our new Meerkat overlords larking about in the homes and businesses of their slaughtered victims. It's a bit like Planet of the Apes, but replacing Charlton Heston with Norris Cole.
Bless Eccles for still trying to protect his owners, chasing the Meerkats round the Street. He's still wearing his lead, which implies that Aleksander dealt with Dierdre only moments before this was filmed; I suspect that if you poked your head round the ginnel you'd find her half-eaten corpse, a cigarette dangling from her mauled face.
In short, these videos are an insight into a hell that none of us want to see; a future where Coronation Street is a wasteland populated by sadistic, violent beasts. ITV's persistence in showing them in the middle of wholesome family entertainment is sick, sick, sick, and I for one will be fast forwarding through them as quickly as possible until sanity is restored. It almost makes me hanker for the return of those two sofa women and their weird sub-dom relationship with that man ("Fetch us food, while we luxuriate on this three seater!").
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…
I was browsing through my Facebook feed and came across a short discussion about the new ITV Corrie sponsors, the Meerkats. General consensus was positive and the last comment made was by someone that thought that Nick resembled a meerkat. This is not a criticism, mind you. Meerkats are cute and although a bit on the thin side for my tastes, Ben Price is not a bad looking fellow.
He does remind me a bit of the animal, though, standing straight and tall, a slender build, with fair light brown hair not that far removed from meerkat fur colour. His eyes are close together and quite piercing, similar to the sharp, searching gaze of the animal and both look a bit world-weary. But then, having a mother like Gail can do that to you!
What do you think? I know I'll chuckle the next time Nick crosses his arms or pops his head up to look across a room or down the street.
Tongue firmly in cheek, no insult to Ben Price intended.
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.
