Coronation Street: Discussion Thread

[NothinButAttitude]

OK. Just watched and @DRW50, this exit was meh. I agree that Maria should've had a role in Carla's exit given their history. It would've been nice to see Leanne and Ken inserted in there too. I don't expect a parade for Carla when she exited but damn. It could've been more. 

 

I still don't care about this Callum story as it wasn't murder. It was self-defense. All of this over nothing....

 

Funny how in the end, Tracey did lose to Carla inadvertently. Rob wants nothing to do with her, and now Michelle (Carla's BFF) has Amy. 

[cassadine1991]

I have a question: which era of Corrie is best remembered? 

[TimWil]

I found it somewhat odd that the Diana Ross single "Upside Down" was playing in the Rover's on both Wednesday's episode and then the first episode on Friday. Are there cutbacks in the music licensing budget?

[All My Shadows]

The first 35 years, particularly the early/mid 1960s, late 1970s/early 1980s, and early/mid 1990s.

[TimWil]

Good God, last night's hour long episode was a snoozefest. Waaaay too much Sean, for starters.

[Adamski]

Absolute madness. All the soaps should be reducing the number of weekly episodes, not increasing them.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/29/coronation-street-to-go-six-nights-a-week-from-next-year

[NothinButAttitude]

I agree. This is overkill and will hurt Corrie if anything. IMO, soaps across the globe need to be 3 days a week at the most. 

[Adamski]

Yes. I just don't get any sense of there being an appetite for more Corrie among the audience. The sheer volume of eps every week from all the soaps is a real barrier to casual viewers picking up the habit. 

[All My Shadows]

US soaps should have cut back to a half-hour in the mid 90s, and UK soaps should currently be in the process of cutting back to two-per-week.

[DRW50]

I think the problem with US soaps was out of touch executives and rewarding hacks by the mid-90s. The half-hour soaps were as bad as the hour ones. 

 

Two times a week probably isn't feasible with the current TV climate - a lot of viewers would just further move on to mass-produced reality shows - but three or four is what I would do. Emmerdale manages to be watchable at six, but Corrie hasn't been able to sustain five a week in years, let alone six.

 

The only upside will be if they put Emmerdale and Corrie on Sundays again and stop clumping so many episodes together in a night.

[NothinButAttitude]

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coronation-street/news/a799879/coronation-street-spoilers-major-character-to-be-killed/

 

Looks like it is gonna be Kylie. 

 

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[DRW50]

Daniel Brocklebank and Bruno Langley really went for those kisses. Reminded me of Rupert Graves and James Wilby in Maurice. Those kisses are burned into my brain, so seeing something so similar to them on Corrie was...um...unexpected. 

[Bright Eyes]

It started off with what I would have expected, but as it continued I was quite impressed. Could Kate Oates be responsible? It would certainly be more in tune with her work that Blackburn's. It's so strange that Sean O'Connor will be credited before her. He's very brave for choosing to put his name on work that isn't truly his.

[NothinButAttitude]

 

Normally, I feel bad for the jilted party but not in this instance. I am ALL for Todd and Billy. I can't wait to see Sean sob over the loss of yet another man and he's left out in the cold.

[Bright Eyes]

Too bad he can't just stay in London, never to be heard from again. I also thought that Tracy was so well used tonight. I've always loved her friendship with Todd since it started, but to see it so strong and cemented in this episode did her a world of good.