Hooray, it's nearly Spring (2026,) and it's getting a bit warmer! CORONATION STREET THREAD. **No spoilers please.**

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Following on from the last thread...

Carl is still awful.

Mal is dreadful.

Bernie is panicking.

Ma Driscoll is horrendous.

Kit is still fit.

Ronnie and Kevin's new double act is quite entertaining!

Debbie is still in prison.

Hope is still as cheeky as ever.

Brian has lost one of his favourite books!

It's all happening in t'street

I am sure there is more.......

which is why she needs Kit to kick his arse back to Inverness

Kit who didn't see him sneaking out of the cafe only a few feet away ? - that Kit.

I think there’s one you may have missed out 🤣

see this is why we really need 😀😀😀😀 back

Mal 'creeping out of the door' was so panto!

I don't know why Bernie doesn't just tell Kit. It isn't as if he's going to blab to Dev.

Although Mal is so psycho he's clearly not going to be put off until he's thrown over a cliff.

@JewelleryCat thanks for the link above. I'm glad Sally Ann has got other work. She's right about what has gone wrong with Corrie of course. I read another article with the producer who 'explained' the reason for the direction (it was absolute bobbins), I'll see if I can find it.

This was the article. The producer seems obsessed with 'how it looks' rather than the storylining. There are no spoilers, just waffle!

https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coronation-street/a70417807/coronation-street-emmerdale-2026-overhaul/

I must admit the photo thing was actually quite scary 🫣

@Shellingbynight that is a load of waffle. Who cares about how it looks? Do what Corrie is best at, strong friendships which they are trying to do with some of the women rallying around Debbie but it’s still better in Classic Corrie if you watch that and the writers need to take inspiration from it though I think we are in 2007 so not that classic lol but still better than Corrie now

I’m still confused by the scene where Bernie came out of hospital after spending night in hotel room with Mal. What was that about?

I‘d really love Dr Harper to make a reappearance in it. I enjoyed his scenes and mystery surrounding him.

Mal - very odd but why did Bernie just not tell her policeman son to have a word . Always the thing in soaps when people fail to do the most obvious thing! Lots of mentions of big Jim Mac .. well done to everyone who saw the implausible link between him and Ben Driscoll .

No, of course I don't mind you calling me Sab! @AmusedMaker 😘

So Mal sneaked into Bernie and Dev's home and careful cut Bernies head from the wedding picture? Or did I misread what was happening (not unheard of)?

Exactly. I do see them now and again, (secnes of distress!) but not often.

On Corrie and other programmes. I don't watch Emmerdale.

I know right. I think everyone in the street has a key to everyone else's property!!! 😆

Where was Dev? There’s always someone around in that house!

He’s gone somewhere with Asha - Asha was packing a bag and he said something to Bernie like “see you tomorrow at 3” - though I could be misremembering that line! But whatever was happening he was leaving for the night.

She went out afterwards clubbing and she slumped down in a toilet cubicle and some young women found her - the next episode was the hospital scene. So I suppose she had alcohol poisoning or the drugs she took effected her and she had her stomach pumped. I think she left Mal sleeping in the hotel room.

Or are a skilled burglar who can enter any premise, do something and leave without needing any keys or leaving any trace - apart from something creepy.

I can't even walk to the kitchen without knocking something over and I live here.

No doubt they all leave their doors unlocked like emmerdale. I thought he was going to creep up behind her.

Yes the Debbie friendship group was brilliant and what Corrie should be about, also the glimpses of Rita last week.

I agree 2007 is not total classic but it is so much better than 2026! For a start, there's 4 years of John Stape the accidental killer to look forward to, rather than a few months of Psycho Mal and Psycho Theo. Oh and Psycho Jodie and Pyscho Ma Driscoll....

Dev has gone to stay with Asha for some quality time before she starts her new 'driving patients around' job. He said to Bernie 'see you on Wednesday'.

Imagine quality time with Dev, you'd be murderous by the end of it!😆

Mal has a big toolbox so could break in quite easily using some tool? He has probably been in prison too which means he knows the tool...we needed a credit card for a previous house.
Mal also has a Stanley knife to slice out faces.
What was the outcome of the Alice bit?

And psycho Megan, and psycho Carl

Oh yes, psycho Megan. How could I forget (I'd like to!)

I can forgive Psycho Carl because he's a good actor. I wish they had redeemed him as I wouldn't mind him sticking around.

@Shellingbynight I agree that 2007 is not totally classic but still better than today. Oh yes, how could I have forgotten John Stape. We need someone like him in Corrie instead of these people we don’t care about