Corrie

alece10 there was a line a couple of months ago about his secondment (or whatever it’s called) coming to an end.

The lady detective’s been bumped up to a regular as well so more expect more of the CSI Weatherfield stuff. I get that the ‘free Deirdre’ plot was huge but they really need to lay off sending the wrong person down, it’s beyond ridiculous now how often they do it.

She’ll be moving into the street before you know it.

Yes it was, although I had to check as I don't know who Gemma Wardle is!

I thought I recognised her but didn't notice her name. The girl who was attracted to Tim I recognised and was looking for her name she was in Fame Academy - Pippa Fulton.

I can remember Gemma in Les Mis Birmingham summer 1997. There was another Gemma - Gemma Sandy I think playing Cosette. Never really heard of her in much after that.

The Corrie humour is still there with scenes like that group date.

The storyline is entirely undeserving of the BGT week treatment but last night’s episode was actually pretty decent. An improvement on Monday’s, which was the first of several ‘same day, different perspective’ episodes this week.

It’s going through a very rough patch and has been for years to be honest. I think fans like me are clinging to the hope that the new producer will be able to turn think around for a creatively point of view, although we won’t see her work on screen for a few months yet.

The highlight in recent weeks was Sally at the dinner party. Criminally underused.

The new producer will be under the guidance of MacLeod as EP but I’m hopeful his role won’t encroach too much on storylining.

The first thing I’d do is demolish the police station and hospital sets and tell my storyliners any prison or mortal peril storylines need to be justified editorially and financially!

A big issue has been the fact Classic Corrie running on ITV3 has been so good.

What are peoples thoughts on what happened to Lauren? I don’t trust DeeDee’s fella Joel. He has come in and done so little which is a classic whodunnit/horror film play…they disappear for the middle third only to reappear as the villain at the end? Stayed close to the situation throughout through DeeDee? Thoughts?

…and there was me thinking I was Benoit Blanc 😂

Gail is leaving after 50 years. I'm gutted.
Hopefully one last fight with Eileen on the cobbles before she goes off to live with Mavis.

I was surprised by the news too. But to be fair they don’t really give her much to do any more, mostly just written like a daft old woman that’s always the butt of the joke, then disappears for months at a time.

I saw the producer on the news talking about how she’d been at the centre of many of his favourite stories. You wouldn’t know it from watching. Off the top of my head I can’t think of her having a proper storyline of her own since Les Dennis. Even Gail’s dad dying was treated like a joke.

 And it’s such a shame because that monologue after Aidan’s suicide really was great. As was the scene of her and Eileen meeting at the tribute to the Manchester bomb victims.

The family have almost stopped mentioning her now so can't see her coming back.