Coronation Street review - December 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

December 2013
Carla and Peter get wed; Hayley’s given weeks to live; Peter fancies Tina; Sean fancies Todd; Tim takes up window cleaning;  Kal arrives; Andrea arrives; Maddie arrives;  Brian leaves; Dennis and Gloria grow close; the nativity play and drunken parent storyline gets recycled: “Don’t worry” says little Simon “this happens every year.”
   
Best gift of the month:  Rita and Norris buy Norris a new coat, so the nosy parker’s in a parka.
 
Unseen prop of the month: the Morecambe Bay corkscrew 

Bitch of the month:
Dennis:  “I used to rub  shoulders with the movers and the shakers, back in the day.”
Rita: “When I met you, you were rubbing shoulders with the winos and the drunks."
Ouch.

Find out what happened earlier this year in:
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
August 2013
September 2013
October 2013
November 2013


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Coronation Street Weekly Update - nosey parker in a parka

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Greetings and welcome to another Corrie weekly update.  I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas!
 
It’s been Christmas on the cobbles this week but any peace and goodwill to all men (and women) came in very short supply.  Hayley was given the devastating news that she had weeks to live after a scan showed the cancer had spread to her liver, the chemotherapy wasn’t working and no alternative course of treatment could be used to save her.  She’s been stoic, she’s  been upbeat, but this week Hayley broke down in spectacular style - and who could blame her? “It’s not fair,” she cried to Roy. “I’m not ready!”  before going home, giving Kylie what-for in the café for feeling sorry for herself then chucking their Christmas tree to the floor in the flat above the caff.  When she’d calmed down later, sitting on the sofa with Roy in one of their many touching scenes with dialogue to match, Roy told his wife how much he loved her and how much she meant to him: “You have turned an apology of an existence into a life.”

Sally receives a Christmas card from Kevin in Germany and it’s news which pricks up Tim’s ears, could there be a touch of jealousy creeping in? Does Tim actually care about Sally? I guess we’ll have to wait and see when Kevin returns whether Tim will put up a fight to keep Sally, and who Sally will want to be with. Tim’s a great character, feckless in the tradition and good fun to watch.   Anyway, Sophie and Sally help out at a soup kitchen for Christmas and Sally gets her handbag nicked by a homeless girl called Maddie who gives Sophie some grief.

Over in the Rovers, Steve’s college mate Andrea turns up and causes a bit of a stir when Michelle finds out that Andrea helped Steve pick Michelle’s Christmas present.  So Michelle’s a bit put out, and rightly so, and she’s a bit jealous too when Andrea plays darts with the fellas in the pub - but it’s Lloyd who gives her the glad-eye and the come-on, not Steve.

The Platt’s have their usual bad Christmas, this time in The Bistro where angst and anger are served up with the sprouts.  Kylie gets drunk and goes awol - again – then fights with Tina on the cobbles and Nick flies into a rage and slaps Leanne.

And finally this week, Rita and Norris buy Norris a new coat; he's a nosy parker in a parka.

And that’s just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Susan Oudot, Simon Crowther, Debbie Oates, Ellen Taylor, Chris Fewtrell.  Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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Steve and Michelle in Corrie baby story shocker

With thanks to the fab Inside Soap magazine, there's news of a good storyling brewing for Steve and Michelle in the next couple of weeks when Michelle thinks she's pregnant.

Steve's overjoyed with the baby news because he's always wanted another child. But Michelle isn't keen - she doesn't want to become a mum again  and she's happy when she finds out later in the week that it was all a false alarm. Michelle then suggests that Steve has a vasectomy and unti he does so, Michelle puts a ban on sex for them both.

Will this throw him into the arms and charms of newcomer Andrea?  Simon Gregson, who plays Steve, tells Inside Soap: "He's furious about the vasectomy business, but knows it's one of those rows that won't last. But there will be twists and turns in Steve's friendship with Andrea..."

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Coronation Street spoilers for the New Year

With thanks to the fab Inside Soap magazine, here we go with some Coronation Street spoilers for early into the Near Year of 2014.

Tina leaves the Street after telling Peter that if he doesn’t leave Carla for her, it’s all over between them.

 “Tina just can’t trust herself around Peter,” explains Michelle Keegan. “These emotions she has are so raw. Tina knows there’s no hope of resisting him, and that’s why she needs to leave.”  

 

Elsewhere, Steve and Tracy step back in time when Amy sets her parents up to help out at a Victorian fancy dress day at the Manchester museum of Science and Industry.  

 

Owen strikes a deal with business partner Pat Phelan but gets involved in some risky business.  Owen has to take out a big loan to go into business with Phelan so as you can imagine, Anna's not best pleased.

And Roy goes off the rails after Hayley dies. Not only is he overcome with grief at losing Hayley, but he struggles to come to grips with the fact that Hayley wanted to end her own life.  Tissues at the ready.

 

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