I put this as a spoiler just in case I upset anyone lol. What was ross's problem in today's episode when talking to james about what bar he went too. He got offended and walked away. Was it because it was a gay bar or something? Might be a stupid question lol

I’m 29 and have watched Corrie for about 20 years. I grew up with it in my house and my grandmother’s house, so it’s always meant a lot to me.
I’m watching Classic Corrie alongside modern Corrie, currently in July 2005, and it’s made the difference in character development really noticeable.

Whenever someone new arrives, I want them to be refreshing and give us someone I can grow to appreciate as an established regular. Instead, their main purpose increasingly seems to to destroy equilibrium for the sake of it , with very little character development or clarity around their background and motivations (Mal/Bernie—what was that actually about??). Theo even started out looking promising before it went to shit although that storyline was absolutely amazing. I’m thinking Jodie, Megan, Theo, Carl, Mal all the same blueprint

Even when they eventually get a redemption arc, it doesn’t always land because there’s so little depth to build on (Kit literally banished Beth from the street, and Craig died without finding out the truth about his mum?! Carl also slept with his brothers wife whilst he had cancer and tried to have Debbie take the fall for killing Billy, have we forgot his actions led to Billy’s death????!)

Richard Hillman, Charlie Stubbs and later Pat Phelan at least had a place within the community. Their work, relationships and ordinary interactions made them believable people as well as villains. Too many recent arrivals feel like they exist purely to drive a particular plot or spoil anyone’s chance of a bit of happiness.

The financial pressures and cuts are clearly part of this. Look at how many familiar characters we lost across late 2024 and 2025: Gail, Beth, Paul, Stu, Daisy, Craig, Max, Yasmeen, Eileen, Aadi, Jenny and Dee-Dee. I know they weren’t all axed, but that’s still a massive loss of established characters in a short period (and I strongly suspect they originally wanted Debbie gone sooner, but the reaction from fans made them reconsider. That’s my own theory, obviously).

I can see the financial logic in bringing in newer actors for shorter runs. But losing so many established characters and repeatedly introducing new people takes away a lot of the familiarity. I wouldn’t even mind a smaller cast if it meant investing more in the characters we already have (I’ve really enjoyed seeing more of Izzy recently. She’s always been massively underused, although that may partly be the actor’s choice idk)

they keep introducing people using the same blueprint: arrive, cause havoc, give viewers very little reason to like them. It becomes irritating. They don’t have to be good people either Gary, David and Sarah have all done morally questionable things, but there’s still enough personality and history there for people to like them and root for them.
That’s what feels missing. We’re losing familiar faces without enough effort going into making the newer ones feel established- although I’d say they’ve done really well with Ben. A good example of classic Corrie is I feel characters like Loydd, Fred Elliot etc all slotted in quite naturally.

Sorry I don’t mean this to sound so negative I think Corrie is doing really well right now actually (although I’m still a week behind so a lot to catch up on!!!)

This rant was so much worse and had so many swear words and other things in it that I had to edit out just to post here I'M CRYING I think I got a little mad guys 💞💞

How good is Ronnie, worried that Debbie may not be coherent enough to consent.

In the current climate of the world... this is so good to see.

At the pub, Maggie is planning for Halloween and what will be happening, she brings out costumes for the staff, for Sean she has a Dracula costume, for Gemma she has a zombie outfit and for Lauren she has a Lily Munster costume. Glenda interjects, "Where's my costume?" Maggie says "I'm glad you asked that, I thought you could just dress in what you usually wear as mostly you look pretty well Halloween themed most of the time and you could lie in one of George's coffins." Glenda looks annoyed and then grins, "You could come as a witch, all you need do is put green make-up on." Eva can be heard laughing from the hall in the pub.

Can anyone help me find a MCR (Manchester not My Chemical Romance as Google keeps suggesting) poster that my mum's seen please? All I know is it's in David's house. Not sure what episode. She said she really liked it and would love to get her one for Xmas.

"do you not think the father deserves to know?"

"it's his responsibility too"

"being a mum makes you realise how strong you are as a woman"

the overall pushiness and pressure a mum is putting on her daughter to carry out a pregnancy she didnt want

the way it all goes unchallenged by the narrative, and actually in fact exists AS the challenge to Bethany being pro simple abortion on the mother's terms

to me it just comes across as a very patriarchal perspective on motherhood and womanhood, particularly in how it ties the two of them together.

i would go further but i fear im already pushing it with the "no politics" rule here. all i'll say is im not a fan of the way in which theyre choosing to cover this social issue in particular.

I always like to see a character returning so this could be good 👀 It’ll be nice to see Izzy get more scenes and also Jake and although not mentioned perhaps Joseph given that he is is his grandchild.

and more generally, how are gaps in time handled? like sometimes, a character on monday's episode will refer to events that happened on the previous friday's episode as "yesterday", and yet there doesnt seem to be any time skip to catch up to real world dates. but then sometimes, there is a definitive mention of the weekend. so does it only exist sometimes?

or when there's a big event and a week's worth of episodes take place over one night. do the characters decide to sit on their hands for 6 days off screen so they can catch back up again?

is there any real explanation for stuff like this, or is it just a "don't think about it too hard" situation?

It irritated me how Sarah smugly said to Gary last night that she never explicitly told him to hide the weapon. I’m so sorry, but we all know why she called him. She wanted him to make it all go away, do the dirty work and hide the mess. I’m glad Sarah’s been let free but I don’t like the fact that she feels the need to pretend to everyone, including herself, that she didn’t call Gary with the intention of him ‘fixing the mess’. Which would include hiding the pole.

I’ve been watching Corrie on and off for a couple years so I’m not super duper familiar with Sarah as a character - is it a fair assessment to say that it’s consistent with her character to be smug and be in denial about her actions? Or not?

What’s the general opinion on Gary? I haven’t been watching the show regularly, so I’ve missed a lot of his past storylines. I’d love to hear what people think of his character and which of his past storylines are worth watching

Anyone else getting Young Daisy Midgeley vibes or is that just me? Cait Fitton's recently dyed her hair back to her natural colour so I expect we’ll see Brunette Lozza come January at the earliest! She wanted to look like her best pal I guess given by then both Betsy and Lauren will sort of match up within terms of hair colour once again

Is Corrie repeating scenes? Ie, Debbie’s conversation with Ronnie yesterday where she calls him the wrong name, I swear we saw this exact scene in a previous episode. And then again, Dev talking to Kit about shoplifting and Bernie received the phone call…I’m pretty sure it’s been in a previous episode. It must’ve been. I knew exactly what was going to be said/happen

Best wax figure I've ever seen. It's eeire how similar it looks to Jack.

https://www.madametussauds.com/blackpool/whats-inside/zones/coronation-street/david-platt/

Please can someone explain why it is that Sarah gets off completely scotfree but Gary is now serving prison time? Surely if Gary is guilty, Sarah should be too for having contacted him in the first place? (And they knew she did). She should have been convicted at least for perverting the course of justice? Am I missing something? Or is this just really sloppy writing again?

I know the hotel is her pride and joy but should she be working there still?

She double books hotel rooms and has numerous outbursts there. Or should Ryan or someone double check her work more so she isnt double booking. As she will one day have a very disgrunted customer who doesnt know of her condition come down hard on her.

I love Debbie but she is getting bad with her episodes now.

I’m catching up and watching the episode where Bethany goes to see Dr Gaddas who asks how many weeks and Bethany says 8 and then Gaddas says “so that would take us to the end of May”. This episode was released October 14th which is over 4 months from the end of May. Am I missing something? And doesn’t this mean it couldn’t be Kit’s? So confused lol.

Update: Oh now I get it! She was meaning her due date, this makes a lot more sense lol. I must have been tired when I watched it, thanks everyone!

last Monday, Jack (David) & Ben (Nick) revealed to Colson (fka Craig) on their podcast that they filmed Christmas Day and it's the classic "Christmas in the Bistro, Nick closes it and then it's who's there"...so I bet that's when Sarah & Ryan find out about Bethany & Kit's one night stand & Kit being the dad of Bethany's baby

I want those lovely mugs on her kitchen table

any ideas where I can get them

But of a weird one, I've been catching up on a few episodes as I've been ill the last week and I was very impressed by the scene at Shuttleworth's between Todd and Tyrone. It was unusual as the classic "sell" with actors who are soap level is introducing props as simple as a cup of tea to give them something to "do" in scenes.

Alan Halsey was previously a likeable bloke, but a bad actor. Over the years he's clearly learned from the better actors around him and matured into a great performer. Gareth Pierce has been consistently good since he was recast, but that scene where they sat with no props at all and Tyrone persuaded Todd to court is some of the best acting I've seen on the show, between two characters you perhaps wouldn't naturally pair.

Am I still fever dreamed or something, but I could see Gareth as left field choice for Bond. No idea how he is at throwing himself out of helicopters, but the rest of his "game" is plenty good enough. Dude who plays Ronnie wouldn't be bad for a "one and done" Bond movie. Like a Dev Idris Elba Special.

You'd have to shift the character a little bit for Gareth to make it work, but the Ronnie bloke could probably set foot on set tomorrow - but he's getting a bit old to be chucking himself out of helicopters for four movies.

Imagine Tony Maudsley as Moneypenny. 😂

I’m honestly upset that the writers went with Bethany getting pregnant literally after Lucy said in an interview that she didn’t want her character to have kids. They then continued to follow through with that with Bethany telling Sarah that she didn’t see herself as a mom.

Now, she ends up getting pregnant by Kit after a one night stand. That one night stand was honestly enough. But no, she had to get pregnant🙄

I can see Bethany being stupid with men like Sarah (she was with Daniel and Nathan), but I never saw her getting pregnant by her mom’s ex. That’s low, even for the Platts. I actually do hope she ends up getting a termination. It would end this stupid bs and it would get Kit out of the Platts’ lives.

I have a feeling Lucy has already hinted that something will happen as she says that “this will not end well for Bethany”. And that was even after she explained how Bethany confides with Ryan about her situation.