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Wednesday 17 April 2024

Preview of tonight's Coronation Street - Wednesday 17 April 2024

Wednesday 17th April 2024

DANIEL’S OLD JACKET ATTRACTS SOME FUZZ Bobby’s face pales as he receives a call summoning him to the station for further questioning. In the prison, Roy refuses his breakfast and refuses to leave his cell. DS Swain gives a shaken Bobby a grilling and reminds him that perverting the course of justice is a serious offence and carries a custodial sentence. Bobby returns home and tells Carla how under pressure he made out to DS Swain that the intruder in Lauren’s flat was wearing a balaclava and a dark coat with a fur-trimmed hood. When Bobby reveals that he’s changed his statement as he suddenly remembered seeing a man running out of Lauren’s flat, Cassie, Evelyn and Nina listen with interest. Cassie tells Evelyn and Nina that not long after Lauren’s disappearance, she remembers seeing a coat in the charity shop fitting the description Bobby gave. Evelyn and Cassie return from the charity shop and tell Nina that the coat has gone but there were some other clothes that came in with it and one of the jumpers has a name tag. DS Swain calls at the builder’s yard flat and tells Daniel she’d like him to come with him as there’s been a development in the Lauren Bolton case. Has Bobby unknowingly accused Daniel?

ALYA STEPS ON ADAM’S TOES Alya tells Yasmeen that she’s decided to accept the job offer from Rich. In the solicitors, Adam and Dee-Dee struggle without Alya to organise them. Rich takes Alya for lunch in the bistro, congratulates her on such a successful morning and tells her that she’s exactly what Fabian’s needs and she’ll go far. Adam receives an email from his biggest client informing him that they’re transferring their work to Fabian’s. How will Adam react to Alya poaching their business?

SEAN AND DYLAN MOVE ON TO PRECINCTS NEW Having borrowed the Underworld van, Kirk helps Sean and Dylan move their stuff out of No.11 and offers to drop Dylan and Liam at school. In the café, Mary tells Eileen that having called at Sean’s new flat, it’s clear that they’re very short of furniture and the place is desperate for a facelift. As Sean moves the last of his things out of No.11, Mary hands him a house-warming gift in the shape of a candle.

ELSEWHERE In the Rovers, Joel opens up to Dee-Dee and reveals that Emily has been in touch and she’d like him to meet Maeve, his daughter. In Speed Daal, Eliza admits to Sam and Hope how much she’ll miss them. Stu tells Yasmeen that he really wants to make things work, but it’s up to her.

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Tuesday 16 April 2024

Coronation Street Episode Review Monday 15th April

Bernie has appointed herself manager of the cafe whilst Roy is indisposed (surely Shona has more experience, but y'know what with that pesky brain injury that everyone's forgotten about....) Everybody expects Roy to get bail but what with his best friend being a 12 year old and him hitting Gary with a cricket bat by mistake, it seems that the world is safer with Roy in the big house. At least he'll be spared the phone calls and the online abuse?

Given how backed up the courts are, I think we should expect to see his trial in late 2026, although I'm still not sure how there can be a murder trial without a body. For all we know Lauren might be in Ayia Napa. Hope, Sam and Eliza (who's still here?) form the Monday Murder Club and hope to exonerate Roy. What do we think, gang? We know that Joel spent some money in a jewellers at the same time that Lauren received some expensive bling from her older man-friend. Or could this be the work of Nathan, Bethany's ex-groomer? He would be out of prison by now. I had thought Harvey was the perp but his storyline seems to be over now. Trying to help Roy, Bobby recants his statement and says he saw another man in a balaclava in Lauren's flat and was warned not to tell anyone. He drags Carla into this and she realises she'll have to lie to the police to back him up. I mean, she has form.

I'm also not quite sure what this storyline is for, except to win Best Storyline, Best Actor and Best Continuing Drama awards at the Inside Soap Awards. Also to give Roy something to do as, apart from the mobile phone story, he's not had that much to do since Hayley died and it is a waste of a good actor to just have him hand out pie and chips or a frothy coffee each ep. It's just a bit....samey. We know he'll (eventually) get off, we know Roy will be the latest in a long line of wrongly imprisoned people and yet D.S. Swain will keep her job. Perhaps the writers room was reminiscing about the good old days of Free The Weatherfield One and Tony Blair asking questions in parliament and they wanted to Make Corrie Great Again.

Alya and Rich sitting at a table in the Bistro in Coronation Street

Whilst Deedee sobs at her failure to keep Roy out of chokey, Adam is having a better day. Flipping off a meeting with boring old Fabian's, he meets an attractive new client, Rebecca, at the Bistro and soon is back at the solicitor's to mix a little business with pleasure. Alya meanwhile has taken the meeting with Rich Fabian and impressed him with her spreadsheets, so much so that he offers her a job. For nine months perhaps? Anyway, the two things collide and Adam is left frustrated and without an admin assistant as Alya storms off. You know how some actors come in for one ep and steal the scene so effectively (Beth, Gemma, Glenda) that you want to see more of them? Well, the opposite of that re: Rebecca.

Talking of scene-stealing, I love the way Debbie makes the most of every scene she's in whether it's wearing a natty little hat and talking about her lucky wraparound skirt ('80s kids will understand) or uncorking a bottle of red with a pop and an innuendo, she is great. More of Debbie please!

Coronation Street Soap Scoop! Roy in danger

Mason has done Toyah a big favour really. She loves going around counselling the cobbles folk, so Maria asking for some (free) informal counselling will keep Toyah in helpful suggestions for some time. I suppose Maria has had mental health problems before (when she was stalking Tyrone), so it makes sense that her anxiety over her son is getting the better of her. Leanne doesn't want her sister's help though, she's quite happy spilling her guts to creepy Rowan, who doesn't want her to invest in Simon's business (spite because Simon didn't sign up for any more modules, or because Rowan wants Leanne to invest in his scheme in order to increase her thetan levels?) To be honest, I thought Streetcars had done a deal with the Bistro to deliveroo their meals and Dev had Aadi cycling around with groceries?

And finally, there's some shenanigans with Stu and a tattoo and Eliza leaving. When is the tattooist going to get a set, a character and a storyline!?

Rachel Stevenson - on twitter

Spoilers for next week's Coronation Street - April 22 to 26 2024

Here are the major storylines for the week ahead on Coronation Street, all wrapped up nicely in 50 words or less.

Monday 22 April to Friday 26 April 2024

Toyah's secret is revealed and she sees red on the rec, Freddie's led astray, Joel makes his move, Eileen smells a rat, Asha goes on a mission, Carla tells Roy the truth about the lie, Leanne opens her mind to Rowan and Steve wants to hear from Demi more.

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Tony Maudsley interview: George discovers the truth about Archie Shuttleworth's will

This week, George chooses Eileen over Glenda as his power of attorney and really upsets her in the process! Why Eileen instead of his sister?

Why wouldn't you? I mean, the choice between Glenda and Eileen when it comes to legal business, you're not going to choose Glenda! I don't think he thinks anything of it. He just always sees her as his little kid sister. But on this occasion she's really offended. She's really offended that he's not thought of her first, but I can completely see why he's goes for sensible Eileen over fly by night Glenda! It's quite it's quite a responsibility to take that role on. And I don't think Glenda even realises is what it is, but she just decides to be offended and swans off. Unfortunately, this opens up a can of worms!

Todd does his usual meddling this week trying to suck up to George – how’s their relationship now after their tiff last year?

Well now that I’ve made him my partner, he’s quite happy. That’s a partnership made in heaven, me and Gareth Pierce [Todd] love working together. George is such a good guy. He wants to do the right thing. He's four years into his relationship with Eileen. He's four years of having Todd under his wing, and he wants to make sure that if he drops down dead that they're both going to be looked after. So, he hints to them that they will be looked after. But Todd being Todd, that's not enough for him. He goes snooping. He wants to see exactly what George is leaving him and he goes snooping around George's things in the Shuttleworth office. Then this will appears. It’s a will that none of us know about, it’s stuck at the back of a file. And this will very clearly states that Glenda should have been bequeathed 50% of everything. So it’s like – what do we do with that information? We don't know if it was Archie's last will because the date on it is smudged. So we don't know if he wrote this will and then died before he was able to get it to the solicitors. It's a bit of a quandary for everybody. It's a big loss for Todd, if Glenda gets 50% of what he thought he was going to get, so it's not in his interests. But it's sensible Eileen that sorts it out in the end before she goes off to Thailand to see Jason with his broken back. She says “I want this sorted now!” and she tells George that Todd has found this will, probably to appeal to George's better nature, knowing that George will want to do the right thing.

How does George feel to discover this will?

So he is half protecting his little sister, who he loves dearly. He's half protecting his dad's legacy, which he has diligently looked after and kept going since Archie’s death. So he's in this quandary of not want to short-change his sister but also not wanting to hand her half a business that she’s going to sink into the ground in five seconds, if she gets her hands on it! He's not about to do his sister over, he wants the absolute best for her, but he's also very aware that Glenda’s not the sharpest tool in the box and she gets her hands on money, she's gonna blow it on something and send both George and the company into an early grave. He tries to squeeze out of Glenda what she’d do with the money and of course her response is “I’m going to spend it all on Little Big Shotz. Singing, dancing and chasing spaceships around the community centre.

If Glenda discovers George has kept it from her, how do you think it will change their relationship?

As we all know, money does strange things to people, doesn't it? I think initially, she's just going to hold her hand out and wait for a big fat cheque! George, thinking of his own welfare, the work he's put into the business, and also Glenda’s welfare, thinking what will become of her if she had all this money to play with. He's thinking very carefully. So I'm not sure Glenda is going to get what she wants. straightaway. There's going to be a bit of a battle there. And she's in a position where she's not got much money. She's renting a little room off Jenny over pub. So life for Glenda, although she's happy, it's not great. It could be better. And if she sees these pound signs in her eyes, there may be no turning back!

Do you think George will wrestle with guilt if he doesn’t tell her?

Absolutely. I think from George’s point of view it was always odd that Glenda wasn't left much by their father. I think he understood why because Glenda has always been into high kicking on the high seas, and singing songs. She’s Little Miss Showbiz, she always was, she was never a responsible kid. She couldn’t even look after her pets properly. Pets died and she went and got another one or she’d wait for a new fad to kick in and say she wanted a terrapin. Things like that. So George knows that she's not a responsible person. He's just got to tread very carefully. And I'm sure George being George, he’ll want the best outcome for everyone.

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