Corrie

In my opinion 6 episodes a week are too many. Four well written episodes would be much better as a busy schedule means a bigger cast especially as a number of them are elderly now. How they write Todd out I don't know?

When someone in their mid 80's takes a 6 month break, you always wonder if they will return. I'd say personally if it was going to happen it would have done so by now as Corrie wouldn't have given her big storylines. They could have filmed her scenes in blocks, had her sitting down etc if she cannot be on her feet for a long time, you can hide a lot on screen.

I liked Emily. Emily Twin-set, Vera once called her! Upright and moral with her strong faith, she was never afraid to open her eyes, her ears and her mind to ‘new ways’, as long as she saw good in someone or something. We’re bereft of someone like this in the street now.

If she has indeed retired, I wish Eileen Derbyshire well, but it’s a little sad that such a Long Server wasn’t given a farewell episode or has not received a special tribute programme.

I am sure that within the past few months Emily's return was trailed in one of the many announcements about Corrie that intrude into my Apple iPhone via Google from Digital Spy and other such publications, but some of these events just never seem to happen.

Emily will have to die, as a character, at some point and I just wish that could be on-screen, as the character has too much history to be off-screen. Even if it was to be the standard coming back from travels and passing away (as with Deidre and Blanche), it could be as simple as the taxi arriving on the street, people going to greet Emily and initially think she's sleeping and has passed away quietly on the way home.

After Luke's sad demise, leaving the garage with staff shortages, not to mention a further health and safety hazard in the form of his shrine in the corner (is it a good idea to light candles in a garage with all that fuel? You'd have thought there have been enough catastrophic fires in one street by now but anyway...) Tyrone was left in charge of recruiting a new mechanic on Friday. The interview was conducted in the Rovers' back yard so you knew it was going to be a tough one for the only candidate. "Boxers or briefs?" Tyrone asked, and he was given the job based on his preference for boxers. 

I'm still not sure whether Tony Warren is smiling or cringing in his grave...

And the fact that Claudia had a dog called Madison! Some of the lines are still brilliant, though not as many as in years gone by.Still I will keep watching it.

I agree totally with drowseychap and the theatremonkey. The current writers and producers of Corrie don't seem to be too bothered about continuity or facts or even common sense with some of the story lines they have foisted on us recently. I still continue to watch in a half-hearted manner but I am sure it is getting worse and it makes me very sad.

As to epileptic David going into a boxing competition, well that's just to set up a storyline about male rape (sorry if that's a spoiler – it has been trailed endlessly for the past few weeks in the media) which I rather feel for a soap that goes out before the watershed is a totally unsatisfactory subject anyway.

I read somewhere that the arrival of a Co-op in Weatherfield is going to be a major blow to the Kabin, but surely it is Dev who will suffer most, particularly as it is intimated from time to time that his prices are rather high. And what about Roy's Rolls when Costa arrives? It has always seemed to me that the whole idea of Weatherfield exists in a kind of time warp – take the Rover's Return for a start! Have we ever seen Freshco's? I remember that nasty manager woman was frozen to death inside a freezing room at the store but I can't ever remember actually seeing the shop itself. Nick's Bistro has never felt entirely comfortable to me and to bring in real shops like the Co-op and Costa is surely allowing reality to infringe unnecessarily on what is otherwise a world of its own! Do we ever see real life in EastEnders? Even the tube station looks like a fantasy. Just wondering!

Well-remembered Caiaphas. I have had long periods when I never saw Corrie for years on end so I am sure you are right with all that detail about Freshcos.

As to the sets, yes, they are indeed getting bigger and bigger. I believe they moved the basic filming set several years ago and they are now in the process of enlarging it, as you rightly say.

As to the Bistro, I feel uncomfortable because it can't quite decide whether it is a restaurant, a bistro or a kind of drop-in bar that is happy to serve glasses of wine or cups of tea and coffee at any hour of the day or night when we already have the Rovers and Roy's Rolls for that. I am also worried at the small tables that sometimes have four people struggling to squeeze into a space barely adequate for two diners, but I suppose that's dramatic licence.

Because that would be bizarre.