Coronation Street ripped from ITV schedules tonight at the worst possible time
It might sound like we’re angry at ITV for denying us our Friday serving of Coronation Street, especially on the day after the soap wedding of the century and the discovery of a corpse, but…
Yeah, actually. We are pretty angry.
It’s been one hell of a week in Weatherfield and we know the upcoming week is going to be killer. Okay, I know, cheap pun.
There’s no Coronation Street tonight, as I’m a Celebrity…South Africa will be airing it’s live finale in lieu of the ITV soap ‘power hour’ and our next jaunt across the cobbles will come next week, starting on Monday, for the shows ‘murder week’.
One of the street’s vilest five characters, Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon), Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown), Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard), Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) and Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn) are guaranteed to meet their maker.
Each episode from Monday to Thursday will see them pushed to their most despicable, before we learn who’s body Betsy (Sydney Martin) discovered on the evening of her mum’s wedding.
The Swarla wedding gives way to tragedy
Yesterday’s episode finally saw Carla Connor (Alison King) and Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers), after everything they’ve been through, exchange vows, rings, seal their commitment to each other and get married, officially becoming wives.
When we say ‘everything they’ve been through’, we don’t just mean disagreements of which order their surnames will go when they double-barrel it, squabbles over where to live or disagreements about the wedding favours.
No, Swarla had plenty do deal with, primarily in the form of Lisa’s dead ex-wife, Becky Swain (Amy Cudden).
Becky’s shadow hung over the fledgling couple as Lisa continually discovered crumbs of information that led her to believe her former flame had been deeply corrupted prior to her violent death in a hit-and-run, and just as she decided to finally let her suspicions, and Becky, rest, her not-actually-dead ex-wife returned from the grave, or, more accurately Spain.
Becky, as it turned out, was corrupt. She was also completely insane and framed her ‘death’ as a desperate attempt to escape a particularly vicious group of gangsters who wanted her head, while doing anything in her power to undermine Lisa and Carla’s relationship.
When that didn’t work, barmy Becks leapt from insidious manipulator to crazy kidnapper, and locked Carla in a closet, while curating a social media presence from her phone.
As Carla became more and more unwell without her anti-rejection medication, Becky left her to die in a shipping container when it seemed that her plan to flee the country with Lisa and Betsy in tact was about to bare fruit.
It didn’t, though, because Carla managed to escape with the help of Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) and tell Lisa everything. In the midst of the Corriedale crash, Lisa slapped a pair of handcuffs on Becky and sent her off to the clink for a lengthy stay at His Majesty’s Pleasure, where we’re sure a bent copper will have a whale of a time.
Ever since, Lisa and Carla have encountered hurdles. They navigated the arrival of baby Connie, and the flooding of their wedding venue, necessitating Lisa to come up with a, frankly adorable, plan B.
It was beautiful. It was perfect. It was everything we wanted and need it to be.
Until Betsy found that corpse.
Murder week
Monday focusses on Theo, who’s lost all semblance of appearing normal and let his inner beast out for all to see, as he tries everything in his power to stop Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce) from escaping his abusive grip.
Tuesday sees Carl take centre stage, as he takes a final tour of the cobbles, determined to pour buckets of salt atop everybody he’s already wounded, namely Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) and Abi and Kevin Webster (Sally Carman-Duttine and Michael Le Vell).
Wednesday is the turn of Jodie, who’s house of cards looks set to finally tumble when her sister, Shona Platt (Julia Goulding), is finally given a glimpse into just how twisted Jodie truly is.
Thursday sees two baddies go head to head, as Megan and Maggie clash, before Friday finally reveals who’s breathed their last.
