Quote: youngian @ December 15 2010, 9:03 AM GMTIsn't the ravishing Amanda Donohoe in it?
She was but she's been jailed for life now for murdering her husband.
In the soap, not in real life 
Coronation Street Page 4
I love Corrie and have watched it now for years and years, probably 30+ if truth be known. However for whatever reason I have only dipped in and out for the last few years, maybe only watching one show in fifty, but caught up in the tram-wreck hype I decided to gee myself up, knuckle down and try and start watching them all again. So I've just had a mega session catching up with all of last week's episodes.
What has happened to the show? The plots are thinner than rice paper, the characters look embarrassed by some of the stuff they're having to come out with, and in what I assume is an effort to keep up with miseryfest of Eas***ders, the stories are just so bloody doom-laden and completely over the top.
The charm of Corrie has always been the overall feeling of a lightness of touch and of course the peerless comedy; both in the show's writing and acting performances. That now seems to be all but gone and quite frankly "TRACEY LOVE!"'s reappearance has been extraordinary. She's brilliant to watch for sure as she wreaks havoc all over the shop, but sadly in a totally unbelievable way, having been landed with a grotesque character that wouldn't be out of place in Little Britain. Her lines and behaviour are about as likely as a good modern ITV sitcom.
It's almost as if Corrie has entered the realms of Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques and has become a parody of itself. Come on writers for feck sake! Get back on the rails (ho-ho) and get some sensible plots and comedy back in there. Leave the wall-to-wall misery for the Walford mob. As the longest running of the genre in the country why on earth let your agenda be set by inferior pretenders?
Quote: Graham Bandage @ September 9 2008, 3:48 PM GMTHey everyone, remember that episode when Deirdre had that dog Prince, Philip killed his daughter-in-law, and Roy had that terrible cock-up with Hayley?
Graham I do not think Roy has ever had a cock-up with Hayley!, also, what do you mean Deirdre 'had' that dog Prince?.
Enjoyed Doreen Mantle being murdered by odd ball serial killer John Snape the other week.
As this is the sort of thing that would happen to Mrs Warboys it felt David Renwick had been bought in as a writer.
Hehe. He was just making sure she didn't scream. He didn't meeeean it...
Everything involving John Stape has been comical imo.
Surely nobody can get it so wrong like he does.
Yeah, I like him. He should stay and not get caught for years. He could keep half-accidentally knocking people off for ages.
He'll probably sit on his own flipping baby if he gets the chance.
Has anyone got any ideas about what songs to have in Coronation Street the Musical? Ken Barlow singing the Prodigy's Firestarter, for instance...
No. No. And Never. Not funny.
Ken Barlow, if I remember correctly slept with many women on the street. Play on that. Unless he recently started a fire. But even then, him singing Firestarter will be mournful.
Quote: Leevil @ December 8 2011, 1:57 PM GMTNo. No. And Never. Not funny.
Ken Barlow, if I remember correctly slept with many women on the street. Play on that. Unless he recently started a fire. But even then, him singing Firestarter will be mournful.
Surely that's the whole point of open forum, if you don't like my idea, suggest something better. No one's going to take notice anyhow.