yeah classic, the characters and the stories were believable and whilst Corrie does still have great characters a lot of whats written is sometimes out of character and truly dreadful. Yes were not going to like all the characters all the time but at least treat the viewer with some degree of intelligence, this is 2014 not 1965,

Oh how I was amazed at Kevin's face when Tim and Sally went off into their house together...hang on arn't we back to square one here? I've watched this part.... why not flash it up on screen in text that Kevin still loves Sally, no better still get Kevin to tell someone that he does and to look lingering as they go indoors, just incase we at home don't get it, next week we'll be looking through the arched window!

Yeah I'm sure the Corrie writers intended it to be funny, but due to poor writing, it was just silly.

Blackburn out me thinks tried watching tonight only lasted about 15 minutes. This slump reminds me of Enders last year, with change Corrie can get back up there where it deserves to be.

I'm afraid SB and some of the writers just don't know how to write comedy. The ladder (Beth and Kirk), was just ridiculous on a drama like Corrie, a children's comedy show and it would have been funny!

You did better than me - I only lasted 5 minutes - Kylie's (non existent) drug problem with Max's (non existent ADHD) medication was too much for me to contemplate so I switched off. Will stop recording it for a while until they improve the writing.

i am sure the fickle will be back when there is a juicy storyline, or something written in the red tops.

Coronation Street certainly hit a new low last night; the writing for Tim was abysmal. He was given a job application form - which he couldn't read; he was given a shopping list - which he couldn't read; he was asked about books in the cafe - ditto; the family played a board game about spelling - which he couldn't take part in, because ..........and all this to push Muddie into the limelight. I wish this producer would leave and take Muddie with him.

It's quite ludicrous, making out that Tim is illiterate - we all know him and Faye met through social media so how would that have happened if he could read or write?! And we've seen him reading the newspaper and writing notes to Faye more than once!

It does seem a little silly, but the background story could have been he was living with a mate who set up the account and then read him the messages and helped him reply?? We can assume that he was in shared digs at the time.we don't have to be spoon fed everything in soaps and sometimes it's good to think of our own version of events off camera.

Maybe he isn't completely illiterate, most people who say they cant read can read a little.There aren't many people who go through school and don't learn to read just a little bit.

Blackburn thinks the new Tina is Maddeh. Wait until she is forced into every storyline and until the entire audience wants to straggle her.

Making her more unlikable by shoehorning her into storylines to see some gentler side.

Nothing organic, her development as a character is so forced. She's no Kylie mark two.

Tonight was pretty awful.

Tonight was probably the worst episode I have seen in ages.

That was pisspoor.

Endless man on roof or chickengate

What's worse? Fight!

Corrie was good tonight

A truly awful episode tonight!

I would happily wring those chicken's necks. And the rest of the dreary Nazirs.

I don't think there was one redeeming storyline in tonight's episode. Normally with Corrie, there's something to stay watching for but, tonight I didn't believe a single scene or word of dialogue. The only thing that reminded me that I was watching Coronation Street were the credits.

Very, very poor episode.

It's was shite to put it politely, just dragged on and on mindless mumble of a mash up of storylines.

Haven't seen tonight's episodes yet but the spoilers mentioned Nazir chickens so I knew it wasn't going to be great. They are so dull. I'd get rid of the grandparents and Kal.

The most believable scene in CS this evening was those chickens clucking in their coop.

The rest is away with the fairies, or simply too dull to care a jot about.

It was pretty bad tonight.

I haven't seen the second episode of tonight's Corrie yet, but the problem with the Nazir Chicken storyline apart from it being crap is that it has gone on for way too long it should of lasted maybe 2 or 3 episodes a maximum a nice filler story but instead it has gone on for weeks, knowone cares.

Glad I'm not alone, tonight's episodes were abysmal, there's absolutely no excuse for this dross. I was losing the will to live watching it.