Corrie weekly update - giving Erica a hand upstairs

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As we bumble towards baubles, teeter towards tinsel and (get on with it!) career towards Christmas, there’s not much on Coronation Street this week that has me looking forward to any festive Corrie cheer. I know it’s early days as far as Christmas goes, but this week has been dull for this fan, Corrie-wise. Anyway, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

Simon isn’t settling well at No. 1 with Ken and the Barlow crew after Leanne dumped him last week. Robert’s the one who comforts Simon and there’s a lovely scene where Simon cries in Robert’s arms in the ginnel. Robert’s clearly taking on the role of our much-missed Deirdre in this storyline.  But Simon continues to lash out, torments Amy and ends up being taken back to the flat with Leanne. She finally does what she should have done months ago and seeks advice from her GP who puts her in touch with a counsellor and the two of them go to their first session. So far, so truculent.

However, Tracy isn’t best pleased that Robert’s showing concern for Simon and especially for Leanne. In her jealousy she accuses Robert of having an affair with Leanne and he chucks her out of the Bistro with “You poisonous little bitch!” before spending the night at his mate’s house and giving Tracy a wide berth.

Erica moves into the flat above Dev’s shop and Dev falls over himself to help his new, blonde, female shop assistant and tenant settle into her new life. “I’m just going to give Erica a hand upstairs,” Dev tells Mary, who’s not best pleased that there’s yet another woman taking Dev’s affections. “I don’t think Erica needs your hand upstairs!” she retorts, a wonderful line.  Mary really does get some cracking dialogue written for her, and Patti Claire who plays Mary is a comedy genius, I admire it all but I really do not like Mary one bit. She’s a nasty piece and no mistake.

Someone who has taken a shine to Mary is Brendan, who asks Mary to go away with him to a convention of The Inexplicable magazine that he edits. Mary accepts, until Brendan tells her that he’s only asked her as it’s not his wife’s cup of tea. His wife? Mary rushes to the ladies loo in the Rovers for a cry.

Luke races, Jamie threatens to post Steph’s nuddy pics online. Steph calls his bluff, Jamie posts them anyway.  Yup, I’ve skipped over what has been the most tedious part of this storyline this week.  However, Tisha Merry has been wonderful to watch as Steph reacting to Jamie posting her pictures online. She calls the cops on Jamie and he’s arrested. I hope it’s the last we see of Jamie and this contrived storyline. However, more storylines for Steph would be great.

Gary’s back from Germany with a steely glint in his eye when he turns up for work at the gym. Sharif and Zeedan tell him he can’t work there, not after he dumped Alya but Gary reminds them that he’s signed a contract that they gave him and he’s a partner in the gym.  Cue ensuing bit of friction before Zeedan tells Sharif he wants out of the gym anyway as he’s not happy working there and Gary throws a guy out of the gym for dealing steroids, proving his management potential.

And at Tyrone and Fiz’s house, Tyrone gets himself into all kinds of debt and ends up ringing a payday loan company. Oh dear.

And that’s just about that for this week. Remember, you can sign up to get these Corrie weekly updates by email - click here to find out how.
   
This week’s writers were Ellen Taylor and John Kerr (Monday double); Mark Wadlow (Wednesday); Perrie Balthazar (Thursday); Jonathan Harvey (Friday double). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team.
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Coronation Street weekly update - sitting soft with Sally

Corrie weekly updates from 1995 - 20 years in 20 e-books
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Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street - 2015 official ITV book
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Sally and Tim set the date of their wedding for October 5 which fair puts the wind up Tim’s window cleaning round. How’s he going to afford a posh do and a honeymoon on his Window Enhancement Executive wages? Sally pretends she wants the full wedding works before coming clean and telling Tim all she wants is him.  She buys a wedding frock in town and can’t wait to try it on again at home. Zipped up in her frock and unable to get out of it when the zip sticks, Kev comes knocking at the door. He ends up helping his ex-wife out of her wedding dress just in time for daughter Sophie to enter the room to find her dad ripping the frock off her mum.

 

Maddie’s memorial auction takes place in the Bistro and a signed picture of Lorraine Kelly goes for a small fortune. Carla gets falling-down drunk in merlot meltdown and has to be helped home. The horror of the guilt, thinking she caused two people to die in the fire, is proving too much to bear.  I’ve empathised for weeks with the woman but there’s a point, you know, at which you just want to shout at her and tell her to pull herself together.  Especially when she nicks Nick’s credit card and starts gambling away his money. Even Michelle’s exasperated and tells her friend to call a counsellor for help.  Meanwhile, Tracy starts to show chinks in her armour and Robert manages to get a confession out of her about accidentally setting fire to Victoria Court. He tells her she must tell Carla the truth - but that’s step too far for Tracy for now.

 

Heartbreak story of the week is little Hope being diagnosed with stomach cancer.  I was stoic about this storyline until Fiz broke the news to Roy. That’s when the tears welled up and the lump in the throat came.  With Cathy’s help, Roy determines to be supportive to Fiz and Tyrone as they go through their nightmare and pops round to read Goldilocks to Hope and Ruby. He does point out however that it is a tale of dubious morality and Goldilocks is a burglar. 

Lloyd and Liz aren’t love’s young dream but they’re good fun to watch. Steve thinks Lloyd is into his mum and encourages him to take her somewhere nice so off to the Bistro they go. The only problem is that Lloyd doesn’t want a relationship, and neither does Liz. They skirt around the issue for a bit over their starters at the Bistro, mull it over during the main course and then skip back to bed for dessert.   Andrea returns and finds out Lloyd’s been sleeping with Liz and she gets a bit upset and all that but to be honest I’ve never liked Andrea and I don’t really care.
 

It’s Kev’s 50th birthday this week and Sally throws a surprise party, sitting soft. Tim buys Kev a bracelet which Kev doesn’t like and their bromance thing starts to feel a bit forced.  Little Jack starts his first day at Bessie Street School. Speaking of which, Amy also starts her first day at Weatherfield High.

And finally this week, the tension between Simon and Leanne escalates when they fall out and fight in the flat. Leanne falls and hits her head which knocks her unconc… uncosh… unkon… out. She’s rushed to hospital when Dev notices water coming from Leanne’s running bath seeping through the ceiling tiles in the kebab shop. Leanne confides in Zeedan about Simon, she’s at her wits end.

And that's just about that for this week.

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This week’s writers were Susan Oudot (Monday double); Jonathan Harvey (Wednesday and Thursday); Jayne Hollinson (Friday); Mark Wadlow (Friday).  Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://cacatopnews.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

Glenda Young
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