Corrie Thread - you know it is bad when the best storyline is about a dog

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Time to start a new thread. Hopefully by the time this one has finished there will have been a terrible disaster and half the current cast will have disappeared.

At least Jazz-hands-Andrea is on her way out. I'd be grateful if she would take a coach-load with her.

Just checking in

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She's georgeous. What do you think will happen with Tracey's fella?

Might skip tonight's episodes... Callum, Bethany and Sarah bore me to tears.

Not impressed with tonight's episodes. There's been hints in Inside Soap and on Digital Spy that Callum dies in the live episode next month so fingers crossed. The man is about as scary as Bagpuss strolling round a marshmallow factory.

I liked Kirk's nightmare line; "Stuck in a lift with Nicola Sturgeon."

Fingers crossed!

I was pleased to see Hope and Ruby had at last been collected from the taxi they've been in for the last few weeks. Perhaps Lily will make a guest appearance on her birthday! Thought it was a bit silly of Sinead not to take her crutches. She uses them in the factory, so even more necessary on an uneven field.

The man is about as scary as Bagpuss strolling round a marshmallow factory

Isn't he just.

Lily? Who's Lily? Not being funny, I genuinely can't remember.

Jilted not surprised you can't remember, but Kylie and David have a one year old daughter called Lily who seems to live upstairs silently, and never needs babysitting when everyone else is out and about.

Sinead seems to be a medical miracle - not only has she now ditched the crutches, but she was talking about going on the 24hr 'back to nature' trip with them all - I bet she'll be climbing over rocks with no trace of even a limp

It's all that fresh air, innit, very healing.

It's not just us then Corrie lost the plot

Good article, WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes

"After months of poor plots, stunt casting and increasingly bad acting, it is in serious danger of turning off viewers. Ratings recently fell to 4.9 million, believed to be a record low."

That, if anything should be making the bosses sit up.

I used to swerve spoilers because I wanted to see how things developed. Now I couldn't give a stuff as there is no development, just a series of debacles. The one linked from DM is just excruciating.

The camping week, which could have been great fun, is appalling. The 'nature is my mistress' could have been funny if done with a lighter touch and with a better actor. But it was laboured the first time (saved only by Kirkie) and just unwatchable the second.

Even DD (aged 11) spotted the plot hole about Bethany's 'dealing'.

Totally agree about Sinead and her crutches, another example of a storyline being just forgotten about as soon as it becomes inconvenient.

Yes, like the writer of that article I started watching around the time Ernie Bishop got shot, and with the exception of university years have stuck with it ever simce. But this year I have found that increasingly I'm not bothered if I miss it, but then I
lose the thread of what's going on, which makes it even less worthwhile watching.

It's had bad patches before, families that really haven't worked etc, but they've always turned it round again. It feels as though it's gone on too long like it this time though.

Good article, although Carla is, IMO, one of the few who can act, and gives it her all, despite the sh1tty storylines.

I'm watching for 35 years, and completely agree, and have said over and over again, as have others, that the strength of Corrie, in the past was its characters. We truly cared about people like Hilda, Mike, Rita, Bet, Jack, Alma, Percy, Vera, Deirdre, Ken, Mavis... Too many to mention.
They carried storylines effortlessly, their characters didn't change to suit storylines.
No tram crashes, or minibus crashes required. Theirs were real life tragedies, good times, and sad times that we the viewers could relate to. Relying on the likes of Sarah, Bethany, Callum, and Random Popstar/ Comedian, to carry storylines has brought Corrie to its knees, in my opinion. Especially as the storylines are weak to begin with.

I was looking forward to the camping and haven't seen the 2nd episode yet but the Paddy McGuinness character was AWFUL! Such a wasted opportunity! I don't know if it was down to the 'actor' or the script but a failure all the same. Maybe he gets better, I'll have to see after the 2nd one.
The article was good, just what we've all been saying for ages.

Excellent article, Whoknows. I agree wholeheartedly with all of it, except the bit about not needing a helicopter crash. We really could do with one.

Can someone pm me the spoiler everyone is referring to on here? I missed the dm article.
Thanks!

www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/coronation-street-set-tear-jerking-6266263

I'm guessing this is it, desperatehousewife.

Oh that wasn't the one I saw. That is awful because the main protagonists can't act.

The one I meant is this which I think is also the DM one.

Not the same as that linked by AgathaChristie01 - an upcoming storyline which is another one I do not want to see, as the current writing and attitude to characters is not up to handling this sort of thing.

I used to watch nigh on every episode of Corrie. Not bothered about missing it at the moment, and when I do watch it's in the faint hope it'll have improved a bit.

Oh no, me neither. And the reference I made earlier about it being a non-event wasn't about this one.

Thanks for new thread Anne

I agree with everything in that Guardian article apart from the criticism of Alison King. As I said on the previous thread, the sharp decline started 2.5 years ago when the current boss started, bringing in useless characters and ill-thought out stories, poorly handling the immediate aftermath of Deirdre's death, and authorising some bad casting. There is also a lot of deadwood that he refuses to remove and I don't think it's a coincidence that so many strong actors have left of their own accord during this time. Even these days, 4.9 million is a poor rating for a long-running, internationally famous show like Corrie.