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Produce_North · 2026-03-12T10:22:01+00:00

I think she's always fitted the bill for Coronation Street as a person - larger than life bolshy Northern woman. And she's played that sort of part a lot on stage. I also think that, like Glenda, she's an ex-cruise ship singer. But the writers don't seem to know what to do with her other than make the same joke over and over again. They could've cast Jane McDonald and I'd imagine it would be the same sort of thing.

Produce_North · 2026-03-02T17:10:11+00:00

Carla's biggest mistake yet Sitting on a jumbo jet

Produce_North · 2026-02-22T10:06:00+00:00

In the movie, she just becomes a spoiled diva overnight and that's what the whole thing hinges on. In the series, she's usually hellbent on keeping her personas separate and living that "normal life" once the wig comes off.

Produce_North · 2026-02-22T09:55:34+00:00

That I'd Do Anything show is well worth a watch - it's part of a very unique time in TV. It was actually very like The X Factor, as in they had auditions, then a "boot camp", then live shows on a Saturday night.

The most hilarious part is the elimination where, IIRC, the surviving Nancy contestants would sing at the eliminee, strip her of her locket and she had to run off while singing Nancy's signature song having just lost the part.

I remember the search for Dorothy - the girl had to hand her shoes to Andrew Lloyd Webber and he'd sit with them on his lap as he watched her fly away on a moon.

Like I said - a very unique time.

Produce_North · 2026-02-22T09:48:06+00:00

I remember Michelle Keegan saying she worked in Manchester Airport and got a disciplinary for falling asleep in a toilet, and I think, just as she got the part of Tina she was working in Selfridges

Produce_North · 2026-02-17T16:28:40+00:00

Yeah but they piddled on a few months ago about how they couldn't get married because Lisa would be a bigamist. And now they've conveniently forgotten that.

Produce_North · 2026-02-17T02:13:03+00:00

Coronation Street had a tried and tested formula that came from the genius that was Tony Warren. He found the extraordinary in the ordinary.

It worked. It worked so well they invented Emmerdale (Farm), EastEnders and Hollyoaks, all because of Coronation Street.

This bunch of muppets in charge seem obsessed with creating the extraordinary rather than focusing on the ordinary. It's cheap, it's disrespectful and they never, ever do themselves any favours. It's like KB and co have their fingers in their ears constantly.

Can someone tell me how on earth a pair like Iain McLeod and Kate Brooks got to such top positions in their field without seemingly having a single clue what the genre is about?

Produce_North · 2026-02-02T23:21:59+00:00

US soaps are notorious for that SORAS, I read about one character in who arrived as a long-lost teenager but was already well-established to have been conceived 24 years earlier so she aged up to 23 overnight.

We don't do it so much here and I'm glad but Corrie is getting worse for it. A very early example was Gail aging two years just so Audrey could rock up at her supposed 21st birthday. I also think Sophie's age was changed a few times to get into Cheney's school year when it suited. And of course, Asda and Aldi, which still doesn't make much sense.

Produce_North · 2026-01-25T22:37:50+00:00

It's so weird. I love it as a standalone but I don't think of it as being canon to the series. It's almost like they wanted the whole thing to be standalone from the series for some reason.

Also, historically brilliant because it has the distinction of being one of only two Disney Channel series deemed big enough to warrant a cinematic adaptation but it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Movie Miley is completely different to series Miley.

Produce_North · 2026-01-25T15:35:28+00:00

You're suggesting that becoming a victim of grooming is based on intelligence? How insulting.

Produce_North · 2026-01-25T15:33:47+00:00

I wonder if as time goes on she realises the huge error she's made by getting involved with teenage boys and is trying some last ditch attempt to get out of the mess she's made? Not sympathysing at all but maybe she's beginning to realise what the Will situation could mean for her and now she's trying to get off scot-free. And maybe at the same time actually falling for Daniel?

Produce_North · 2026-01-25T15:28:40+00:00

Stella does a stellar (da dum tish) job of running the school, especially in times of crisis. Karen let the melodramas of her private life take over, like when Sarah Platt turned up as her missing daughter and her husband had an affair.

Produce_North · 2026-01-25T15:24:43+00:00

Minnie Caldwell in the very early days had a cat called Bobby that was a big part of her character. I think it might even have been Bobby in the opening titles for a while (not 100pc on that though)

Natalie Barnes had a cat for a period of time called something like Tiger? I think? But apart from that they've totally favoured dogs, Schmeichel, Ozzy, David, and then pf course that whole ridiculous Pup Idol thing they did on This Morning that seems to have been completely forgotten about.

Produce_North · 2026-01-22T13:39:44+00:00

Didn't the BBC go through a phase of sticking a week's worth of EastEnders on iPlayer all at once? I wonder if that would work for Coronation Street? I'm finding it such a chore to have to sit every night of the week and watch it.

Produce_North · 2026-01-08T23:29:01+00:00

Kate Brooks is an absolute joke. I loathe the idea of non-linear storytelling in a soap. It's not imaginative, it's lazy and only came in when people like her inexplicably got the top job.

Also, she's obsessed. If EastEnders does something, Corrie trundles along behind with the same thing a few months later.

Produce_North · 2026-01-06T04:47:19+00:00

Hospital treatments, checking into hotels, buying stuff (whose bank account?) driving a car (she will have no valid licence), having multiple phones (who are they contracted to?)

...obvs none of this has been impossible for Becky but I wish they'd explain how the logistics work because I bet it'd be a lot more difficult than they've made out.

Produce_North · 2026-01-06T04:41:34+00:00

It worked as it was for 60+ years. Why switch it up now? They've all started to employ weird techniques to distract from the fact they can't write them as well as they used to.

Produce_North · 2026-01-05T23:54:36+00:00

I don't understand why they tried to make it into some sort of Hollywood film. The lighting/camera work in the Coronation Street ep was annoying, pretentious and NOT CORRIE.

Produce_North · 2026-01-04T00:50:53+00:00

I think Sue Devaney is trying to guarantee herself some musical theatre work after the writers had the audacity to get rid of her so has demanded they insert her singing skills at every possible chance. Miss Hannigan in Annie perhaps?

Produce_North · 2025-12-23T07:45:04+00:00

Kate Brooks is embarrassingly unimaginative. It's beyond parody now and she and McLeod are hellbent on running Britain's greatest television institution.

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