In a new interview, Corrie's producer Stuart Blackburn has stated that, deviating from the norm of "13 days for each block of five episodes", the cast and crew will soon be filming something "massive being transmitted early next year" which will take "about 22 days to shoot" which is "ten or 11 days more than we’d normally take."

For comparison purposes, the 50th Tram Crash the team took 10 weeks to film five episodes. And apparently the Rovers Fire took 3 weeks. I don't think they shoot on weekends (please correct me if I'm wrong), which would indicate this story will take just over 4 five-day weeks to film (22 working days).

By this logic we should expect something a bit more impressive than the Rovers Fire but not as spectacular as the Tram Crash (don't think anyone would expect something to top that, it was like a blockbuster film.)

As for the stunt itself I have no idea what they might do but I'm thinking it might be some sort of crash - perhaps a minibus or coach? Another fire or explosion would be tedious, a building collapse wouldn't offer much drama, we shall see. It would be pretty epic if they did a storm of some kind, with some serious damage. Perhaps the tree outside Audreh's could be uprooted in gail-force winds and come smashing down.

Either way I hope it's properly stripped across 5 episodes rather than The Rovers Fire which IIRC only spanned Mon/Wed with "back to normal with some damp squib aftermath" on the Friday night. If it's one thing Stuart Blackburn sucks at, it's pacing. We get it, you boring old arse, you're so conservative and dull you prefer to have each episode set on a different day, but sometimes we want a more focused view on a series of hours or a night, rather than the next day, the day after, when the momentum of the plot is lost!


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To be fair realistically, you can't have a stunt (excluding Tram Crash, which was massive) running for the full 5 episode block of a week. Besides the fact it would end up being tedious and boring for the audience by the 4th or 5th episode, is it really plausible that people can survive in a ferociously burning building for 2 and a half hours?

I'm thinking it could be a coach crash- perhaps it's Kirk and Beth's wedding guests on the way to their wedding venue?

Isn't their wedding supposed to be really comical?

and yes, it's definitely a coach crash.

You do know the Rovers Fire was Phil Collinson's story, as part of his big final hurrah.

And to be honest it is hard to comment on this new stunt as there isn't much to go on, what the circumstances are or who is involved. Although I have been impressed with the trial week and we haven't had a huge stunt in a while (apart from Nick's car crash) so it could be okay.

Clever timing. To coincide with the NTAs no doubt and steal some of EE's 30th thunder.

Or the Live reveal of "Who killed Lucy Beale"

I think this is due to broadcast in January and the live reveal will be Feb 19th so I think it's a ploy to get more votes for the NTA show asking for Best Soap votes during the broadcast.

I hate this tactic!!!

They will be starting work on the new Weatherfield to Emmerdale motorway. Coronation Street will be shut down for a year while workmen set up their cabins and portaloos, and stand around drinking coffee.

I Think the wedding, will be thevstunt, especially taking guests to it, or maybe they get married and it happens on way to reception.

We have heatd for months about Michelles wedding company, or whatever it is, something has to happen.

Maybe a Depressed Steve, is driving, and he looses control of the vehicle or something.

Surely it cant be any building on the street, would they really destroy a set which took ages to build, in less than a year of the move

I would prefer a stunt that happens away from the Street, as location shooting gives the show more opportunities to be visually spectacular and ambitious in scale. In the last four years we've had the Underworld explosion, the tram crash, Carla crashing into the bookies and the Rovers fire all occur on the cobbles; it makes more sense for this stunt to take place elsewhere. Too much is already confined to the Street- does anyone actually work away from the cobbles now? I'm hoping we see at least two deaths.

It will unquestionably be the week of the NTAs. They've done it every year since the awards moved to January.

Anyone old enough to remember the coach crash that put Ray Langton in a wheelchair?

I am!
I seem to remember that it coincided with ITV 'going colour'.
Incidently, if it's going to be a wedding-based tragedy they had one of those in the late sixties, too! ( Harry Hewitt got crushed to death on the way to Elsie Tanner's wedding ).

We're on the same page. Emmerdale will be taken off air on the night and they deserve something imo

Same thing ever year

I wouldn't get my hopes up, considering how hyped up 'Tina Week' was and then the actual quality, the stunt may take a long time to film and be cleverly hyped up but it won't be anything special I don't think.

They are OBSESSED with winning!

It's called competition. If EastEnders is so great why feel threatened?

This takes me back to 2010 when Corrie had the Duchess of Cornwall visit their set and the EE fans here were complaining about their poor soap having the spotlight taken away, even thought 2010 was a big year for Corrie as well.

Good point. We're talking about the contrived nature ITV tout for votes for the NTAs. If this stunt isn't on that week I'll be very surprised. Then Emmerdale is thrown under a bus as it is taken off the air.

Same with BGT week and another big CS storyline.

Same with EE and Christmas Day.

The story telling should be natural. When EE did that Den & Angie reveal on Christmas Day '86 it was not hyped up. Natural. Now it's all about out-doing the rival at the expense of quality. What do you think?