Happy New Year Corrie fans. New thread to take us into 2025...No Spoilers Please (added by MNHQ at request of OP)

[SabreIsMyFave]

So many women pregnant, is there something in the water?
Wonder if they'll have a son or a daughter?
Joel's story lingers on, that's really too bad.
And now we have to put up with his mum and his dad.

Lauren's gonna do time, I wonder how long.
I guess she deserves it as she has done wrong.
Gail's gonna leave soon, after 50 whole years.
It'll be such a shame, there will many tears!

Bethany's putting on a brave face, though she's had a tough ride.
Daniel's still boring, and Kit's always snide.
Daisy's always got a snooty little pout.
And looks like she might just knock someone out..

Toyah and Nick have been secretly smooching.
Leanne knows all about it though, as she's always mooching.
Debbie's so funny, and Eileen's so droll
And Roy, a real favourite, is one of the best characters of all

Carla and Swain are getting quite close.
Not such a secret now, and nearly everyone knows.
Mason the baddie has gone quite good.
And Betsy always acts like she's Queen of the Hood!

Not much more to review for now.
But it's happy new year to us all.
I wonder how the Corrie cast will celebrate?
I bet they will have a ball.

Happy new year everyone. Have a cracking 2025! 😄

No-one would do it when they are almost 80 though, seriously. No-one! 😆 24 is nothing really. Only 4-5 years older than most of them at Uni would have been.

Both of my DD went at 18 and 19 to different Universities - (they went at the same time as DD1 had a gap year,) and they had a few friends there (on the same course as them) that were 20-22 at the time.

They also knew quite a few people in their mid 20s at University. (Even a couple of people were 36-40 on their course.) But the idea of someone doing a University Degree at almost 80 is bloody ridiculous.

I know a lady who was doing a PhD in her eighties, and people do open university degrees when they retire.
But semester one in January?
Why didn't a cousin need visiting?

Yes I agree with you @SabreIsMyFave

I meant that even at only 24 no way was I living in halls, I had been working for 7 years and had a completely different mindset to 18 year olds. Evelyn is 78 and not exactly the most tolerant - she'd implode!

They will never show her at uni, they don't even show people going into t'Kabin!

It's not an extra one. It's Fridays episode - moved to tonight because of football! Guess we should be thankful it's not been postponed until next week as it normally is!

I don’t even know many people my age that watch (45). I started watching Eastenders when I was 5(!) because in those days there was only one tv in the house and you had to just watch whatever your mother was watching. Lots of my friends used to watch when we were younger for same reason but have stopped over the years.

I think with young people these days there’s obviously so much choice and multiple screens and no one is forced to grow up watching it with their mum!

I dip in and out myself but can never quite quit!

I was in Halls when I started uni when I was 17. We thought the people in second year were old - as in the 19 year olds!

I know a few people that did degrees when they retired, but it was open university.

Going living in halls because two teenagers at home are noisy doesn’t make much sense! A load of 18 year olds would be much noisier. And what kind of degree starts this time of year?

So Rob has been in the local prison all this time - we never saw him when Roy, Damon, Harvey, Griff, Nathan, Clayton were in.

Apart from Roy, are the others all still in there?

What happened to Clayton in the end. What was the point on bringing him back for 2-3 episodes.

I suppose he was brought back to rock the David and Shona boat, to make her fling look more realistic

I don't understand Evelyn going into halls either, I keep waiting for Roy to offer her to move in with him, or at least the option to use his flat as a study place.

I agree with a PP who said Betsy was acting a bit better, I liked her scenes with Nina last night

Shona needs to call time on her relationship with David, while her self-respect is still reasonably intact. She's clinging on and it's embarrassing.

I feel a bit sorry for some of the actors as they’re only as good as the lines & direction they’re given. Sean, given the right script, is a good actor, but for some reason they turned him into the pantomime dame.

I feel Dev is way past his sell by date with his ridiculous over acting that isn’t remotely funny.
It’s been going on for years and actually getting worse.

Bobby is a great addition to the Street even though he’s not a main character - he has some great lines & has good comic timing.

Fully agree.
And Mary is a joke at this point. As an actor, why wouldn't you just leave?!

I agree with most, but can't bear Bobby. I thought actor Rob totally outshined (outshone?) him last night in that prison scene and showed what a poor actor he is.

I think Bobby is hopeless, he has some funny lines but he isn't very convincing. I wonder will Rob come back into it? Anyone know how long he has left to serve in prison?

I'm not sure Sean's performances can be blamed on the scripts. All the cast get the same writers, and most of them put in decent performances. And he has been terrible for years anyway.

He is good at light-hearted stuff, which worked well when he was young. But he's now a middle aged dad and he's very limited and cannot carry serious or sad storylines. He had a homelessness storyline about 6 years ago and was not good in that.

I don't rate Bobby as an actor and didn't as a comedian either 🙈

I think Sean looks like Keir Starmer from certain angles 😆

Sean looking like Sir Keir has given me the giggles.

Dev was dreadful last night

I still can't get over Evelyn and how easy everything was

Students can barely get halls in September.

Also isn't a law degree longer than 3 years and who would employ her

Agree that Bobby couldn’t play Macbeth, but he has a certain charm I think? ( although I’m clearly on my own with this 😂 )
Im not sure who’s the best, all round most versatile actor, maybe Abi?

I would employ her. Not to fight my case in court but just to be in my life 😂 I love her!

All this Evelyn degree stuff has reminded me of her ads "you've got an ology? You get an ology and you're a scientist!"

Christ I thought she was old then and that must have been nigh on 40 years ago 🙈

Totally agree about Dev, made me squirm when he overreacted in the cafe.
I did an OU degree in my forties, did it around work and raising young kids. Loved it. The thought of a brick uni and living in halls…would be much more plausible for her to do OU (modules start in Feb and Oct) and study for a few hours a day at Roy’s. Suspect ML wants more flexibility filming.

Abi’s good actress, Jenny’s ok, as is Tracey, Tim, Sally, Steve, Carla.
Rest are meh.
Knew someone who knew Sean years ago, she wasn’t exactly impressed with his attitude, to say the least.