Right, I knew about his brother--funny given his QAF character's obsession with Dr Who. I meant I'll tune into CBC's airing of Corrie more often to see if he's still on (though who knows how often I actually will). The biggest surprise was when he popped up in Titanic...

I've foudn the judges on Strictly Come Dancing (the very very little I've watched it) worse than Dancing with the Stars in terms of nastiness--though he wasn't much of a comfortable dancer in the many club scenes of QAF either (granted that's a very different kind of dancing, and fit with his shy character) so I'm not too surprised

Coronation Street is to air the first transsexual wedding in a soap. The Sun reports that cafe owner Roy Cropper will wed Hayley Patterson as part of the programme's 50th birthday celebrations later this year. The couple had their union blessed in 1999 – back them it was illegal for transsexuals to marry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/mar/08/coronation-street-hayley-roy

That's nice. Through Hayley, Corrie did a lot to help change the public opinion of transsexuals in the UK.

Still waaaaay back, watching September episodes, but loving it!

David, Tina, and Nick, with Graeme in the audience, are going to be on an episode of Jeremy Kyle. The characters, not the actors.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1258486/Coronation-Streets-Platt-family-1000th-episode-Jeremy-Kyle.html

Platts on Jeremy Kyle:

Michelle K. is One of the best young actress on TV.

Michelle K. is One of the best young actress on TV.

Agreed. I don't really watch Corrie but from what I've seen of her, it's all been enjoyable. Plus, it doesn't hurt that she's smokin' hot!

her character is turning into a bit of a B**** though.

She's becoming a harder character but I think it makes sense. I just hope they don't go too far, as they have with Molly.

Some casting news -- Keith Duffy (Ciaran) is leaving, by his own choice, to focus more on his band, Boyzone. The little girl who plays Amy has been replaced.

I really liked the exit for Kelly, I thought it was a good fit for her character, and a throwback to the name Danny Baldwin had for her ("Legs").

Corrie is so damn weak, hallow, and just not worth investing in at the moment. Hopefully that can change soon with the producer change.

Corrie has a lot of problems (too many attempts at sensationalistc storytelling, overuse of characters until people get sick of them), and the stories at the moment are not great. I do think that they have improved recently, there's a lot of good conflict and emotion between characters - Nick/David (spoiled by a poor recast, unfortunately), Gail/Audrey, and Pam/Molly, Kevin/Molly, good scenes with Bill and Kevin, Kevin and his kids. Simon's kidnapping ended in an odd anticlimax, I don't really imagine that was what they originally had in mind, but that story was also decent up to then. I'm looking forward to Sophie's upcoming story. They've done a very good job with her over the past year.

I think the show is still in passable shape, although with plenty of room for improvement. I mostly watch for certain characters, especially the older characters, who are still allowed lives and emotions, unlike what's become of, say, the veterans on Emmerdale recently, or poor Pat on Eastenders, who has a severe heart attack one week and the next is treated like a slave by Bianca.

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Keith Duffy isn't leaving after all.

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/s3/coronation-street/news/a210552/keith-duffy-im-staying-on-corrie.html

This should be fun:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3/coronation-street/news/a210590/corrie-anniversary-drama-to-air-on-bbc.html

That does sound interesting. Of course Little's got his hands all over it, as he should. They'll be lining up to audition for the roles of Carson, Phoenix, and Speed, that's for sure.