the rolling Coronation Street thread.

Also they've had to revamp a lot of the sets since going HD apparently.

ah right, i imagine that's why it looks a bit different now. not that i'm watching on HD but they do jazz things up a bit when they do that.

xpost i had forgotten about the upcoming crash.

The Corrie/Eastenders thing on Children In Need was fun.

the young lady who plays Sunita was on Loose Women yesterday and said that the 50th anniversary episode would feature 'live CGI'. Sounds, interesting?

I reckon Ken and Deirdre would look great in those motion-capture suits.

the "big event" is being trailered as "four funerals and a wedding".

i thought it was supposed to be, like, 20 funerals?

also, another wedding??? put the brakes on ffs.

Who's getting married - Peter and Leanne? I was trying to work that out earlier when I saw the advert. Is Jack one of the four funerals - are we only losing three folk then?

Eileen in the Children in Need trailer said "I also said those trams would be the death of me." - spoiler or red herring?

also = always

I hope that was a red herring because her 'nicking money off boss' storyline could be fun.

Gotta be Ashley or Clare to go? This moving to France thing is pretty rubbish so must be leading up to something.

My money's on Molly. Hopefully Dev as well.

If the wedding's on then that rules out Peter and Leanne, am predicting Nick instead of either of them. One out of Molly and Kevin (Molly probably), one out of Ashley and Clare (please god Clare), and one more (Janice?)

just four? we need a bigger clear out than that.

i can barely look at eddie windass.

but please, yes, dev.

They couldn't kill off Eddie Windass with the whole Gary-back-from-Afghanistan storyline, poor Anna :-(

Don't think Peter and Leanne can be ruled out - they could be having the reception in The Joinery.

Nearest businesses - the Joinery, Streetcars, the corner shop, the Kabin. Nearest houses: the Websters. Who lives in the flat above the shop just now - Tina?

Oops, when googling for who lives where, I just came across a list of who is due to leave, including a spoiler on Wikipedia about Charlotte which had better not be fucking true. Please can we just get rid of Stape now?

Never mind Coronation Street, can we talk about Eastenders' Glenda turning into an uber-GILF and shagging her nephew, the ever-unnattractive Phil Mitchell, after letting Ian Beale think he was going to get his? She is fast becoming my current favourite soap character by a long way - between this and her leaving weed out for Carol Jackson to get stoned on, she is holding the show together. Not even Janine locking Ryan in a fridge, or Rosie Webster generally being amazing, is coming close.

We can. ON THE EASTENDERS THREAD :-)

Yesterday's EastEnders

Ugh, I knew I'd posted on a thread before about Eastenders, I don't know why I thought this had become a de facto soaps thread.

Nice wee article by Grace Dent in the grauniad: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/dec/03/coronation-street

I particularly liked this:

A good rule of thumb in life is to think, "What would Deirdre Barlow do?" then act utterly to the contrary.

Yeah I loved that line, it's a great article.

So, have they done the *thing* yet?

Next week.

Starts Monday.

My death wish list is: Fizz, Kirk, Molly & Tyrone, Izzy, Nick & Leanne, Julie, Pam and Mary

Mine is Stape and Dev. And Nick.

Is the *thing* on Monday, and the live episode on Thursday?

I don't mind John Stape, I think the Colin Fishwick storyline is quite funny if stupid, I think Charlotte is solid gold and think he's great at being a gormless idiot.

Charlotte has a really scary mouth.

I loved Sophie's comment to Rosie the other night "maybe its Santa and he's brought you some clothes that actually fit you"

I think the passing of Maggie Jones has meant they can spread the comedy bitchy lines around more cast members. Sophie is great, they had better fucking not even be thinking of splitting her and Sian up via the medium of crashing trams.

http://www.itv.com/coronationstreet/videos/backstage/50thpreviewspecial/

I am unreasonably excited about the tram crash after watching this.

o0o00h indeed!

Holy shit, that looks proper. So, Ashley, Peter, Simon, Max, Molly, Jack, Sunita, Nick, maybe Ciaran all in danger?...looked like the Peacocks house going up as well?

Not Peter and Simon! One of the greatest double acts in modern Corrie?

I don't mind John Stape, I think the Colin Fishwick storyline is quite funny if stupid, I think Charlotte is solid gold and think he's great at being a gormless idiot.

I have a very, very different opinion of this storyline.

Have rewatched, Jason and Rita also in peril! Internets have revealed three deaths to me (one unrelated to tram). How many are going?

I'm with trishyb on the Stapewick thing. I believe I have mentioned this before.

Rita cannot go. Who will take care of everyone? No, no, too much trauma there.

it would have been good to introduce the trams as part of the weatherfield geography prior to this episode.

I am a bit too excited about this - all the "you better be here when I get back, Clurr" foreshadowing is making me nervous, Corrie is pretty much a member of the family.

I haven't watched this for about three or four years -- is it worth trying to start to watch again?

Probably, all the old characters are still there and still the same

it looks amazing tonight. fantastic lighting.

The trams have been rumbling about for the last few weeks.

This first episode is marvellous stuff. Ken Barlow!

i know, incredible! elsie tanner!

hard to believe it's the first episode let alone the first of its kind of an entire cultural keystone.

I'm really liking this, time to buy that five storey high Complete Corrie DVD boxset and get going.

oh i want to watch episode two now, not the tram crash.

"Are those fancies today's? I'll take half a dozen - and no eclairs. NO eclairs."

I do like that new doctor, continuing the tradition of Matthew Ramsden and local hot doctors.

Rita being rained on by gobstoppers! Nice touch!

Wowzers, that was epic.

that was incredible although the rollercoaster tram driver shot was a bit gratuitous.

but wait, why did the nightclub explode?

I presume related to the gas problems that Ciaran had mentioned about why he was serving sandwiches rather than steak and chips to the stags?