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Carla and Nick get engaged this week after Carla first asks Nick-nack to marry her. He then pops the question back at her in front of their families in the Bistro. “I’ve survived the Barlows, I’m sure I can survive the Platts,” Carla muses while being given the evil-eye by Gail. 

Michael’s nominated for the Weatherfield Good Samaritan of the Year award by Dee from Station Road. It’s an address that Michael remembers well as he burgled it once and now he feels guilty as he’s the bees knees for Dee. This storyline threw up two mysteries for me. Number one – why have Gail and Michael not started divorce proceedings?  Number two – why did we not know until now that Fat Brenda has a husband. A husband! And by the by, we’re not allowed to call her Fat any more, it’s just Brenda for now.

That moment when Sarah Platt finds out she's pregnant

Sarah returns from Milan and goes on a date with Aidan in the Rovers. She gets very, very drunk, stumbles out of the pub and in front of Tim’s van that throws her to the cobbles. At Weatherfield General, the nurse tells Sarah that she’ll be fine, and so will the baby. The baby? Yes, Sarah is four months pregnant. Yes, it is Callum’s child.

Craig’s girlfriend Caitlyn sends him a text saying her dad is out and she has the house to herself and does he want to pop over to see her. Craig takes this to mean that Caitlyn wants to move their friendship on, you know, to doing it. You know, it. And he’s scared, is Craig. He confides in Faye that he’s not ready for you know, it, and sends Caitlyn a text to say he’s not well. She calls round to see Craig only to find him at home with Faye, gets the wrong idea, storms out, he storms after her, boy makes up with girl and some tentative hand holding goes on, which was sweet.

Over at Underworld, Jonny goes to the Annual North-west Haberdashers Christmas Dinner Dance and gets his picture in the Weatherfield Gazette.  When Sally overhears him and Kate talking about having lunch at the Bistro, she manoeuvres lunch with Sophie there at the same time, throwing Sophie and Kate together. We all saw this coming a mile away but for this fan, it doesn’t make it any easier to watch. When Sophie was with Sian, every time they came on screen together, a white noise filled my ears to block out the screech. I’d forgotten that white noise, I’d forgotten the screech. Last night it came back to me all over again. I slumped a little further down on the sofa and pulled a cushion over my eyes. At least Sally will be pleased Sophie’s getting it on with the boss’s daughter.

And finally this week, we end with a shot of Rob Donovan in his prison cell. He’s banged up for the murder of Tina McIntyre, you’ll recall, and it looks like he’s going to cause bother from the big house next week.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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This week’s writers were Susan Oudot (Monday); Damon Rochefort (double Wednesday); Martin Allen (double Friday). 

Glenda Young
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Corrie scriptwriter listed in UK's biggest rave anthems

Coronation Street scriptwriter Damon Rochefort is featured in today's Guardian in an article all about the UK's biggest rave anthems.  Damon was in a band called Nomad (which is his name spelled backwards) and their hit (I Wanna Give You) Devotion reached No 2 in 1991.  The Guardian calls it a pop-dance earworm that launched the careers of super-producer Steve McCutcheon, Olivier award-winner Sharon D Clarke and Corrie scriptwriter Damon Rochefort.

Damon telsl the Guardian about what happened after the record topped the charts.

“I made my first-ever record with Sharon Clarke in 1986 by borrowing five grand from an Iranian club owner. I think it got to about No 92 after Tony Blackburn played it. It was thrilling but precarious. I also did an acid tune called Don’t Believe the Hype by Mista E which featured Steve Coogan – before he was famous – doing impersonations of Prince Charles and Alistair Burnet. I liked the acid stuff but I also liked all those big vocal tunes around at the time, so I put all that together and I came up with Devotion. When it became a hit, my life changed completely. We toured for four or five years, we did America, we did Australia, we supported Kylie on her UK tour. It was great fun. Then I grew up a bit and became a producer, making records for all sorts of people – Bad Boys Inc, Michelle Gayle, LaToya Jackson, Kim Wilde – but by 1996 it had all become a bit workmanlike.

Damon Rochefort and David Neilson (Roy Cropper)

I decided I needed to shake myself up so I went on a scriptwriting course taken by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who created The New Statesman and Birds of a Feather. They took me under their wing and I ended up writing for Birds of a Feather. I’ve been at Coronation Street for 11 years now. I wrote Blanche’s funeral, which was lovely – it’s a great honour to bury an icon. A few years ago I went to Mardi Gras in Australia and they opened the parade by blasting out Devotion. You do feel a great surge of warmth. It was my 50th birthday party recently and as a surprise Sharon and I came out and did Devotion for about the first time in 20 years with half the Corrie cast pointing and laughing at me!”

Listen to Devotion here.



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