the rolling Coronation Street thread.

I think that's Susan Barlow!

"But what about the poor little twins Ena?"
"Their Peter and their Susan?"
"Off up to Scotland. Coming back after twenty years without so much as a Scottish accent." pic.twitter.com/1WzuVPFNdB

— Victoria Wood QOTD (@VictoriaQOTD) December 9, 2017

Vera's pal was Ida Clough. I have no idea who the other randomers are either.

fucking hell at what's coming next week, Corrie has gone dark

(I won't spoil it directly but Shayne Ward is leaving and it is not by taxi)

It's a good topic, I think, quite an unlikely/unbelievable character to use for it.

They've been hinting towards it for quite some time with Aidan's recent storylines, and Shayne Ward's been playing it surprisingly well. I suspect it's going to tie in with David's storyline as well. Be nice for a bit of continuity if it affected Steve in some way, but it'll probably end up being all about Michelle, like everything is in Corrie these days.

Well, this continues to be utter dreck with a bit of decent stuff hidden away. And, as discussed on the Stenders thread, there is an utterly terrible nonsensical and downright offensive storyline coming up for Jim and Liz which will finally have me giving up.

Aidan's storyline passed over in favour of driving Johnny into a pointless affair, more misery for Bethany (good wee actress, sick of the sight of her tied up and whimpering now?, Phelan aftermath done and dusted in about ten minutes ("so, Anna, you stabbed him? Ok, we'll be in touch", Nicola and Michelle both shot with no ill-effects and I don't think the Bistro where two shootings and a fatal stabbing took place was even closed as a crime scene for a full day, Harvey/Vinnie's mum as comedy character who profited massively from the proceeds of his crime with none of the people ripped off in the flats scam seeming to care), blah blah.

Susie "kidnapped" by her own grandfather leads to a police appeal and a nationwide manhunt after less than 24 hours.

Don't get me started on the shite with Jude and his fake job.

So, if this McDonald storyline is true, that'll be one retconned aborted baby and three hospital mixups all on the same street (I assume Ryan #3 is coming back at some point)

oh, that is bad. so the storlyline is that Jim comes back with Liz's daughter who she thought she had aborted? ffs, that is gross. But also there seems to be another storlyline where the mixed-race girl that works in the salon is supposedly Steve's daughter?

You're not seriously telling me Jim McDonald's back are you?

lol! talk about scraping the barrel!

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Katie wasn't aborted, she died. She was born prematurely, she couldn't survive, and died at a few days old. Apparently it was a mix-up and she was adopted and went to live in Australia. Not sure how the mix-up came to light or how she was adopted, presumably the parents of the other premature baby that did die just took the wrong baby home unaware their baby died then, um, something something THIS MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL.

There were rumours that Emma might have been the daughter of Fiona Middleton who had slept with both Steve and Jim. But I think that's just because the actress is mixed-race and a hairdresser and looks a teensy bit like Angela Griffin (in that she's mixed race and has curly hair). The Katie McDonald thing has been confirmed and an actress has been cast. It's just awful.

Adam Barlow is the retcon abortion, Ryan and Ali are the existing mixed-up-at-birth pair.