Coronation Street Weekly Updates

After the excitement of the fire and explosion last week, , you’d think things might be quiet this week, but no. There’s explosions of a different kind as one of the biggest bombshells goes off in the Platt household this week. When a photo album arrives for Michael from his ex-wife Susan, Gail does her best to keep it out of Michael’s hands. The album contains pictures of Michael’s son Gavin from baby to boy to adult to the son who looks nothing like the Gavin that Michael thinks is his son. Michael of course views the photos and his whole world comes crashing down on his hand.

Andy tries to explain his deceit to Michael but Micheal won’t listen, he’s LIVID! Then Michael finds out that Gail knew what was going on and he’s UP IN AMRS! Then he finds out that David was in on the deceit and Michael is FUMING! Then Gail tells Michael that she met his ex-wife Susan. Michael is ENRAGED! (Hang on while I go to synonym.com as this could go on for a while). He wants to know where Gail met Susan and when he finds out it was at Gavin’s funeral, well, he’s FURIOUS! And of course he’s MIRED IN GRIEF to discover his real son is dead. And finally he’s INCENSED to find out that the secret about his son has been spread as far as Steph in the Bistro and to her brother, Luke. Michael RAGES against Gail for all the lies about his real son and he threatens to leave. Gail tells him he can’t, that No. 8 is his home. “This is not my home,” he tells Gail. “It’s just a house I tried to burgle.” He does leave, and spends the night in his car before Eileen takes him in the following morning. She cheers him up with a bacon butty and one of Sean’s old jumpers while Gail whimpers and wonders what she’s gone and done.

Dev returns from India this week. All is not well in the Alahan household as Mary and Julie continue to bicker over the bloke. Mary takes a call on Dev’s phone and it’s a woman calling from India, a woman who Dev has befriended while he’s been out there. She wonders if there’s something more going on and doesn’t mention the call to Julie. Meanwhile, Julie gets herself all ready for Dev to propose when he takes her out to the Bistro to ‘talk about their future’.

Maddie died in hospital this week and Sophie went into meltdown. This is not a story I care about and weeks of Sophie crying and weeping are not something I’m looking forward to, not one little bit. Sophie finally listened to her voicemail from Maddie from the night of the fire, warning her about Jenny. Kev still won’t listen to Sophie’s theory that summat’s up with Jenny. He’s not the inquisitive, or intelligent, type.

Kal’s funeral was held this week, a Muslim funeral where the men and women are kept separate. It was interesting to watch but that’s as far as I enjoy this storyline. I’m just glad Kal has gone, he was a complete waste of space who never fitted in. Mum Yasmeen (who I do like) finally welcomes Leanne into the family and gives her the engagement ring that Kal had chosen for her. “You’re our family now,” she tells Leanne. “Always.” I did a little shiver on Yasmeen’s final word.

Everyone, of course, continues to blame Carla for the fire and she’s doing her best to keep a low profile, along with Roy’s help. Why then, she sent a cheque (a cheque?) to Kal’s family to kickstart a memorial fund, and why Roy delivered the cheque to Kal’s family on his funeral day just doesn’t make sense. It’s not what either character would do.

Elsewhere this week, Beth drags Craig to see the doc as he keeps falling asleep in class. Craig says there’s nothing wrong with him, but he’s clearly up to something. Kirk wonders if Craig is spending too much time under the bed covers with his computer watching ‘Australian Football’. But it might be that Craig is helping Faye with the baby and he doesn’t want Beth to know. All will be revealed soon.

And finally this week, Jason smacks Todd in the face. It’s a well-deserved smack in the face. If Jason hadn’t done it, I might have had to do it myself. Todd lures Eileen to the Bistro on the pretence of her meeting ‘Jeff from Dubai’ for a meal. When she gets to the Bistro, Adrian’s waiting for her, ready to whisk her off for a romantic night in a forest hotel. Eileen’s not sure what’s going on, she was hoping to meet Jeff but doesn’t want to lose Adrian. Todd winds things up between his mum and Adrian and then reveals that he’s really Jeff from Dubai, and has been stringing Eileen along for months. It’s all a bit sick. Instead of Eileen getting angry with her son, she just gets upset. It’s left to Jason to smack his brother round the chops for what he’s said and done and Todd leaves in a cab with his what-nots in a hold-all as Eileen does a little cry. Todd might be a nasty piece of work, but he is still her little boy.

And that was just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Mark Burt and Simon Crowther (Monday); Martin Allen (Wednesday); Jan McVerry and Damon Rochefort (Friday). Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

Glenda Young
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