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OMFG!
Corrie has got Much better! I Love it. I NEED to keep watching it when I go back to America. I Hope someone believes Maria. |
Aye, the new producer has really fixed up the show
Just look at fridays episode, the mixed comedy with drama when Maria spelt "Murderer" wrong I hope it continues being this good :flower: |
Former Coronation Street star John Savident has admitted that he was reluctant to leave the show.
The actor, who played Fred Elliott on the ITV1 soap for 12 years, decided to quit in 2006 because he wanted to spend more time with his family in Hertfordshire. However, Savident has now revealed that he would have been willing to stick with the role if producers had given him a lighter workload. "I did think they might find some way to accommodate me," he told The People. "Quite honestly I was surprised and disappointed that they didn't try a bit harder. "I told them a year in advance that I was going and then they took me out for dinner and said, 'We're not going to insult you, John, by trying to make you stay'. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'Please, go on, insult me'." Savident has also claimed that programme makers Granada had angered the show's cast by cutting back on bonuses. "Granada were becoming increasingly mean. All the nice little extras that the cast enjoyed were being whittled away," he explained. "The subsistence allowance - basically for working away from home - only got paid for the first couple of years you were in the show, not for five, as it had been. "Holiday pay was slashed. I think Liz Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth, was in floods of tears and someone like Bill Roache (Ken Barlow) must have lost a small fortune. And then Granada reduced the weekly retainer we got for showing 'loyalty' to the programme, from £470 to £100 a week. Loyalty clearly doesn't mean a thing now, especially in television." The actor will return to screens with a new role on ITV1 crime drama Above Suspicion next weekend. Digi Spy Really John? I thought they killed off Fred after you insulted the producers... |
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ooooh looks good
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Aye, I have a feeling it might be more comical than serious, but it still looks good
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I wish Frank Gallagher accepted the role of Papa Windass..ya can tell the role was built for him
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Coronation Street's Lloyd Mullaney has really come into his own over the past year. His friendship with business partner Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) has seen Lloyd caught up in Steve's ever-dramatic love life. However, 2009 marks the beginning of Lloyd's very own love affair - with his best mate's mum, Liz McDonald (Bev Callard). Here, DS chats to Craig Charles about finally being given a screen relationship, a potential family for Lloyd and Eileen's Rubix cube.
I bet you're pleased that Lloyd's finally been given a love interest! "Yeah – it's been a while! I thought he was going to be a closet gay guy and end up with Sean!" What was your reaction when they told you it'd be Liz? "[Bev]'s a friend of me and my wife's, so it's all quite comfortable really. We get on really well, too. The relationship just opens up the whole scenario of Lloyd going out with his best mate's mum – and Steve definitely doesn't like it!" What's Steve's reaction? "He's not impressed in the slightest – he's just underwhelmed. There are some fantastic scenes between me and Simon [Gregson] in Lloyd's flat where Liz is hidden away behind the sofa, but Steve eventually finds out. There are some great lines being thrown at each other. It all ends quite tragically, though - but I won't give that away. It all ends on a sour note." Do you think it's built to last? Do you think Liz has finally found the right man in Lloyd? "I think Liz very much likes Lloyd and Lloyd's walking around with a smile on himself, too. I think they're both genuinely fond of each other and their friendship's been growing for a while now. It's one of those relationships that's been borne out of friendship." She's been around the block a few times, hasn't she? Does that not put Lloyd off? "I think that's what attracts Lloyd! In the Corrie world, he's very inexperienced." What can we expect from Lloyd going into the New Year? We've not seen a lot of Lloyd over the past couple of years… "I think a lot of that was to do with some of the problems I went through a few years ago. It was just a case of coming back and taking it easy and making sure I was well again. Then when I signed this new contract, Kim [Crowther] told me that they were going to bring Lloyd more central to the drama – and that's what she's done. I'm really enjoying it. It's exciting times for Lloyd." Would you like to see any of Lloyd's family turn up in Weatherfield? "Good question. I'd love a scally cousin or something like that who's on the run from the police. Him turning up in Weatherfield at Lloyd's flat would be an absolute corker story for me. It'd be nice to have a bit of family around Lloyd, but these things are all very much based on establishing the character first. That's how families in soaps have always worked best – establishing them one by one, as opposed to bringing in a load of new characters in at once. I wouldn't rule it out for the future because it's be great to see some of his family – a couple of 'fros on the Street wouldn't go amiss!" Do you think Eileen's ever going to finish her Rubix cube? "I can't give that one away! It's getting a bigger and bigger part, this Rubix cube…" |
SCORNED widow Maria will stop at nothing to make Tony pay for Liam’s death — and even tries to KILL the factory boss.
But when mum-to-be Maria tries to bump him off she puts her own life and that of her unborn baby in danger. Carla begins to wonder if her husband did kill Liam, could she also be at risk from evil Tony? Meanwhile cheating Steve loses everything when his affair with Becky is rumbled. After Michelle walks out on him, his dithering also makes Becky dump him — and she finds comfort in the arms of ex, Jason. Can Steve win her back from his love rival? Weatherfield bad boy David ends up in hospital after a fight with Gary in front of girlfriend Tina. But he tells police it was Gary’s fault, stirring up the feud between the Platts and Windasses. Tina agrees to lie for her man in court — but can she pull off her false version of events? Elsewhere, Tyrone puts his wedding to Molly in jeopardy when he gets arrested on his big day. The Sun |
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I wonder if she actually does it?
I mean....Grey O'Brien said his contract lasts till this summer |
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Aye, its possibly Maria kills him....then Maria is named as the murderer, and Tony is remembered as a good guy :shocked:
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Coronation Street's Alison King has revealed her character Carla will never help Maria catch Tony.
Carla's husband Tony (Gray O'Brien) murdered Maria's husband Liam when he found out he was having an affair with Carla. But Alison revealed that even when Carla starts to suspect Maria (Samia Smith) might be right to suspect Tony, she doesn't show her support. Alison said: "Carla gets suspicious of Tony and starts to ask questions. She does come round and think maybe Maria's not so deluded after all maybe she's got a point. "So she goes round to see Maria but she doesn't let it slip to Maria that she's having doubts herself. She just asks why Maria thinks what she does to get more out of her so she can carry on her own little investigation." But at the moment evil Tony has Carla and everyone else on the street thinking Maria is mad. Alison said: "Carla just gets really mad with Maria because she just thinks Maria's making it up and she's going bonkers and accusing her husband. She can't see any reason for that to be true at all and he's being very nice to Maria so he's kind of fooling everybody to an extent. "She just thinks bonkers brain hairdresser woman is just aggravating her so she's really against her and that helps I think, with Tony." |
Yay! they found Sunny Jim!
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did they..... oh the cat
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Lol yeah
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ooooh steve and lloyd ^_^
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Thats the episode where Steve finds out about Liz & Lloyd
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Does anyone else want an epic romance between Lloyd and Steve..?
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Loooooooooooool not me
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Coronation Street has had it's ups and downs this year, everyone will certainly agree on that. Sue's posted her highlights of the year today and I thought about doing that as well but instead I'm going to focus on more recent events and look to the future. for me, this December has been outstanding. I started thinking about this after I finished watching the double episode on Friday, December 19 which showcased Peter Barlow's drunken rampages through the Christmas Nativity at Simon's school and his inebriated tirades against his father, accusing Ken of being the worst father while simulataneously swigging from a bottle of booze. Irony, anyone? The episodes showing how his alcoholism was affecting his work relationship with Leanne, his family members including a rarely seen vulnerable Blanche, and how booze is affecting his social interactions by getting thrown out of the school and the bar were really powerful. They are really examining this issue more closely than they ever have in the past and it's about time, too. A show that has a pub as it's heart that has not really delved the depths of drink problem for more than a brief moment or two seems out of touch.
03_12_maria-rosie-sally.jpgElsewhere we have the pressure on Tony Gordon increasing. After a sumptuous wedding after which a drunken and belligerent Sally Webster spilled the video pixels to the Widow Connor, revealing that her late husband was caught kissing the Black Widow Connor-newly-married-Missus Gordon, Maria (Samia Smith acting her little socks off) has correctly figured out that Carla and Liam had an affair, Tony knew about it and had Liam killed. Everyone thinks, with plenty of help from Tony, that she's just mad with grief. (I do think we need to see what Ryan's reaction to Maria's ravings is, but he's hardly been seen since the funeral.) Add Jed Stone to the mix, a substantial thorn in Tony's side, one whom people *will* believe poses a greater threat and had to be silenced. Tony is starting to unravel at the end of a long tightly wrapped storyline. Carla seems to believe his assurances but she's skeptical enough that she will start having suspicions of her own before long, especially since she knows that her affair with Liam really was more than just the one night stand that she's admitted everyone, including Tony. The past hasn't been forgotten either, when Michelle called her on the carpet for dishonouring Paul's memory. An absolutely classic moment had an apparently lifeless Jed Stone packed into a hamper which the unaware staff used as a drinks table for the Christmas party while Tony sweated in the corner was sublime! And with Tony's composure threatened, is Maria going to be the next one to find herself in a morgue? I think probalby not, since she's pregnant and Tony seems to be reluctant to cross that line but you never know! CarlaandMichelle.jpg Jed's not dead, though. Or is he? Tony was seen cleaning out the van. Was he getting rid of crucial evidence that could convict him of another murder? Even if it did seem to come out of nowhere, Steve and Becky have a growing chemistry and a very big secret. In his usual bumbling style, Steve is trying to let someone else take the responsibility for doing the hard thing and he's trying to push Michelle into breaking up so he doesn't have to do the dirty work. He hasn't really changed much in all these years, has he? Lloyd is the only one that knows their secret but secrets on soaps have a way of oozing out. Liz will find out and blood being thicker than water, her loyalties will be with Steve and she'll keep the secret. For now. But she'll not let Steve take the easy way out either. Liz will have a secret of her own to keep when she and Steve's best friend will realize that they have a strong attraction. It's the stuff of classic soap opera! The wonderful romance of Molly and Tyrone has hit the skids. Tyrone's antics with con woman Auntie Pam were meant to finance a fairy tale wedding as a surprise. Not everyone has enjoyed Auntie's Antics but I have. Thus, the lies meaning to conceal the plan were of course, uncovered by Molly who was royally pissed, moreso, I think, because she thought Tyrone was having an affair. If that hadn't been part of the logic, I think she might have been more likely to have given Tyrone more of a chance and more readily accepted his apology. Still, we know she'll forgive him eventually and we look forward to the wedding in January (just about at the one-year anniversary of Vera's death, by the way.) 46iii.jpgGail has finally found a nice fella but even he's keeping secrets from her. First the business over the Windasses and now he's keeping his financial woes from her. The road to romance is never a smooth one for Gail. Tina and David are never boring and throwing the neighbours from hell and the divine Graeme into the mix is a touch of genious. Graeme is an enormous asset to Corrie! He's quirky, street smart, unpredictable and sweet. He'll go far, that lad! Putting him in the butcher shop gives him interaction with more of the neighbours, as well, and with David turning 18, they'll be in the pub more and that brings in even more connections and chances to mix with the residents. Having Tina in the Kabin and in the kebab shop does the same thing for her character, no longer just isolated to Gail, David and her father. When you isolate a character, you restrict how much you can do with them and it limits their lifeline on the show. That was one of the main problems with the Mortons. Darryl had David and Jerry had a few friends but that really was the extent of it for a long time. Too long, and the momentum was lost. The return of a classic character rather than making Tony's eviction to a generic old man was a stroke of genius as well. It allowed them to bring him back to be the thorn in Tony's side and also, be a foil for Norris. Norris' competition obsession seemed to be a short, old-fashioned style Corrie storyline but it's blossomed into a shy, sweet romance and it's about time Norris found a nice woman who's going to treat Norris kindly rather than the rottweiler that was Angela Hawthorne. We've got a new barmaid and assistant manager which has put Michelle's button nose out of joint, when clearly, her mind's not been on the job all year! I don't know where it's been but it's not been on her vanished biological son Alex nor on her in-house one Ryan who seems to have gone walkabout too. Rosie's kidnapping by John Stape was a bit daft but seeing her blithely selling her story to the tabloids and aiming for glossy-paged celebrity is typical of our shallow Miss Rosie. And her part in revealing to Tony the affair between Carla and Liam via a mobile phone video has resulted in one of the best lines of the year, Carla grabbing her by the scruff of the neck and hissing "I'll make you into a handbag!!!" Marvellous stuff! So Coronation Street is ending 2008 on a high note for me. Kudos to Kim Crowther for pulled up Corrie's socks and setting it on a straighter course. The road to the 50th anniversary in 2 years' time could very well be paved with gold cobbles. Don't expect perfection, there's bound to be a few potholes, but I think Coronation Street is coming out of a slump and is better than ever! Corrieblog |
I'm going to the Cardiff pantomime tonight and Peter Barlow's in it! :bigsmile: It's of Aladdin, and he's playing Abanazer. :bigsmile:
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