Classic Corrie - 2003 begins! Maxine’s met a sticky end, but dear old Emily’s on the mend, and Maria’s betrayed her dearest friend

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Place your bets for how many years out of date the storylines in the title will be by the end of the thread… 😁

Me too. I had to eat my dinner to Current Corrie 😳

Devastated!

Only one episode today.

Why aren't the episodes on itvx? I'm home ill and have just been sleeping. Thought I'd treat myself to a nice catch up and nothing since Tuesday!

I usually save all mine up to watch at the weekend, This has happened before when they suddenly removed a load of episodes I hadn’t watched from ITVX

Nothing since Tuesday on mine either. I’m having withdrawals. I’d actually stopped bothering with current Corrie as it’s so rubbish in comparison but now I might be forced to watch it again… perhaps that’s their intention 😐

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That’s rubbish. I record them as don’t want to rely on ITVx. There was one episode yesterday and two today. Hopefully they show up on the player.

Two recorded for me today but I note that they’re not on ITVX yet.

I think that the single one from yesterday may be the hour long NYE/NY Day special but I’m not sure.

I’ve had to get up early this morning to watch yesterdays repeat. Still no sign of Wednesday/Thursday episodes on ITVx

I can still see them on catch up itv via my sky.

Actually I can’t see the classic episodes from 2004. Today I recorded the episode on ITV3 and will continue doing so until they appear on catch up services. Today’s episodes were series 2004:episodes 4 and 5 so I can’t access episodes 1, 2 and 3

ITV have said there is an issue uploading the content but they are working on it and it should be fixed soon 👍🏻

Thats interesting Fridays edition of Stephs Packed Lunch is also missing from all 4

They have now shown up under Coronation Street when I do a search rather than Classic Coronation Street and are mixed up with the 'modern' Coronation Street.

Regular lurker on here 👋🏻 thanks @RhapsodyinBlue2 I found our missing episodes as series 45 in regular corrie section , thanks for your observations .

Me too, I’m glad they are on there. Thank you.

Thanks from me too! I was getting quite maudlin 😄

Not really part of the gang but do lurk , but just popped on to say only another year of the brilliant Karen McDonald 😭.

Really? She leaves so soon? I thought she was in it for years and years. But I suppose what seemed like years and years has just been squished down as we watch it now.

I loved Karen as a character. And I love Suranne Jones as an actress. Don't think she's put a foot wrong in her career.

Suranne is amazing. A successful Corrie alumna like Sarah Lancashire, Michelle Keegan, Katherine Kelly. The chemistry between her and Simon Gregson was insane.

Of course, others like Tracy Brabin were later successful in different ways.

Bill Ward is a great newcomer as Charlie but I’ve found it a bit boring recently. The Chesney/Rita scam and the kids breaking the window … tedious. And I say that as someone who thinks that Sam Aston was a fab young actor. The Fiz-Kirk-Ty thing is boring me too, I find Kirk one-dimensional although the actor is good. I fast-forward the scenes in the Battersby house, I CBA with them.

I am looking forward to Amy’s birth, the MacDonald wedding, Todd’s coming out, and Maya’s exit storyline. Also the arrival of the London Baldwins and the return of Our Leanne.

I‘m enjoying the Rita storyline. I find her token scenes a bit annoying in Modern Corrie so it’s nice to see her as a main character again. I LOL’d at Norris’s conversation with Cilla in the pub. I was too young to appreciate him the first time around. He was brilliant. RIP.

Poor Kirk. His proposal was so romantic.

Where did Peter Kay come from? He seems to know Shelley but I’ve not seen him til today.

Cancel that. He’s the drayman the older bloke was banging on about. Very cringey to watch, get out Shelley, while you can.