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Old 13-06-2015, 16:27
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That's hardly a little mistake too... that's pretty much unforgivable and a real kick in the teeth to Corrie die-hards. I'm hardly a massive fan, but even I remember Kevin losing his son, nutty Alison stealing Bethany Platt then running into the path of a truck! Hardly an insignificant little thing... surprised LeVell didn't pick up on it, you'd think he'd know having played it!

Terrible. One of many reasons Corrie has completely lost its way.
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Old 13-06-2015, 16:56
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What happened to his collaborator and Corrie 'expert' Kate Oates keeping him right? Like he does with her on Emmerdale?
Not a very successful partnership.
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:02
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Did anyone here notice though? Someone would have been bound to run here screaming to start a thread if they did.
He said 'viewers' - could be anyone.
To be fair, yes, the SOR thread has been alive with complaints about it!!
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:05
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As soon as I heard Kevin say the line I immediately thought 'hang on a minute what about his baby with Alison?' But then after hearing him say that I got it into my head that Alison miscarried rather than had a baby that died. So i assumed he just didn't count a miscarriage as losing a child. Glad it's been brought up and apologised for though.
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:09
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Huge mistake to make
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:13
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Must be really hard for people who had had a baby die in similar circs, especially if it had been around that time too, to watch. So insensitive.
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:19
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To be honest this whole part of Kevin's past has been widely forgotten and ignored for years.

I've always wondered whether the actor/s was forced into the storyline under duress and there was a lot of trouble behind the scene's with this one... Hence pretty much forgetting it ever since...
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:21
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I also thought about Kevin's son with Alison all those years ago. I suppose at least they've said that it was a mistake.
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:34
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As much Michael Le Vell's fault as the writer's, he's the one who's been there a million years and acted it.
But he doesnt know why the script writer would make him say a line. As far as he knew it could be part of a new storyline
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:36
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What happened to his collaborator and Corrie 'expert' Kate Oates keeping him right? Like he does with her on Emmerdale?
Not a very successful partnership.
When has Kate Oates ever been referred to as a Corrie expert? And the only thing they're supposed to "collaborate" on is making sure that both shows aren't running the same storyline ... despite some of them being mighty similar at times!

As to the actual script error, I didn't pick up on it as I very rarely pay full attention to Corrie dialogue at the moment. It doesn't have the natural flow that it used to for me, but kudos that they've actually issued an apology and pointed out the mistake. To me, this is a sign that the show is on far too often and that sensational storylines need to be scaled back more. If you manage to forget that a character has lost a child in their backstory, it shows that these kind of plots are happening far too frequently for the crew to keep up with let alone the people that watch it!
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:39
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But he doesnt know why the script writer would make him say a line. As far as he knew it could be part of a new storyline
You'd think he'd at least query such a line though, if he knew the character as well as one would hope he does. I reckon most actors on CS are just phoning their lines in at the moment, the show is a joke.
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Old 13-06-2015, 17:41
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Remember when Michelle had an argument with the second actor to play Ryan and she yelled to him "I carried you for nine months!!" -- Er no she didn't! He was swapped at birth remember Michelle
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Old 13-06-2015, 18:30
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To be fair, yes, the SOR thread has been alive with complaints about it!!
OK then. I didn't look there.
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Old 13-06-2015, 18:32
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Do they still have one?
Emmerdale don't now and it's painfully obvious.
Yes, Corrie's archivist is Helen Nugent.

The main role of an archivist is to read through scripts and point out any inaccuracies or continuity issues. But Nugent clearly must have got the job through 'connections' as there have been FAR too many of these screw-ups slipping through the net since she's been there. Sad times.
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Old 13-06-2015, 18:37
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Yes, Corrie's archivist is Helen Nugent.

The main role of an archivist is to read through scripts and point out any inaccuracies or continuity issues. But Nugent clearly must have got the job through 'connections' as there have been FAR too many of these screw-ups slipping through the net since she's been there. Sad times.
Surely she can't have turned up to work for the last couple of years.
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Old 13-06-2015, 18:58
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Yes, Corrie's archivist is Helen Nugent.

The main role of an archivist is to read through scripts and point out any inaccuracies or continuity issues. But Nugent clearly must have got the job through 'connections' as there have been FAR too many of these screw-ups slipping through the net since she's been there. Sad times.
Thanks, but if this is her, I don't think she can devote much time to it.
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Old 13-06-2015, 19:02
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It's hardly worth doing that. Yes, it's a clumsy slip and I'm not excusing it but how many viewers other than us lot will have even noticed? 5% max?
Enough that he had to issue an apology which, of course, has had the knock on effect of alerting even more people to it, lol!

No I don't think they'll put a recently recorded insert in but they better be checking things in future with a fine tooth comb and making sure Kevin saying anything similar in the upcoming episodes is edited out.

Rather amused by this cos in the 10 years + since Jake died, he - and Alison - have never been mentioned as far as I know, so it's been commented a few times that it's like, to Kevin, they never existed.

And of course there was much hoo ha about Kev and Sal celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary in 2006. I commented myself at the time that they seem to have forgotten that they got divorced for some years and Kevin had a new wife and son in the time in between that seemed to have been forgotten!
So they hadn't been married for 20 years.

Course, Corrie have changed history a few times in recent years so this is only another to add to the list!

My favourite is Adam Baldwin, who of course, was aborted when he was in Susan's womb back in 1987! No soap can beat that I don't think! lol
LOL, great post!

Remember when Michelle had an argument with the second actor to play Ryan and she yelled to him "I carried you for nine months!!" -- Er no she didn't! He was swapped at birth remember Michelle
Oh God that's a storyline that's best forgotten, even Corrie thinks so!
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Old 13-06-2015, 19:46
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A similar scenario on H&A from a few years back springs to mind. Cassie was leaving Summer Bay and drove off into the sunset. It seemed to have escaped everybody's attention, including the actress, that Cassie had been banned from driving just a few months before. At least with Corrie it was 15 years!!
I think H&A also issued an apology at the time. The funny thing was Sally left the following episode, where there was a Fletcher reunion and as H&A viewers will know, Sally's leaving storyline was linked to her very first story so they had explored twenty years of history in great detail but forgot something a mere few months old!!
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Old 13-06-2015, 19:48
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The mistake in the script and by the actor were both appalling.

http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.co.uk/ This week on Coronation Street, as we all know, the character of Kevin Webster remarked that "It must be hard to bury a child". Social media went up in flames as long time fans gave Corrie a virtual smackdown over the mistake. Kevin Webster lost an infant son 15 years ago *this week*. Had Kevin forgotten? Clearly the writers and producer did. They're supposed to have an on-staff archivist that checks things like that but in recent years they've been woefully slack and the fans pick up stuff like this all the time.
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Old 13-06-2015, 19:52
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I also find it confusing when Sophie asked Jenny Bradley who she had lost but surely Sophie would have heard about Alan Bradley her father being hit by a tram?
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Old 13-06-2015, 19:55
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That would have been an easy answer, but not the true one.
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Old 13-06-2015, 20:58
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Even if they don't have a archivist, I would have thought they had a biography for each character.
They do indeed, soaps call it the bible, it contains everything that has happened to each character and friendships,family past and present.

All new writers are meant to read through it BEFORE writing a new storyline for any character but as this clearly proves, some dont bother.
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Old 13-06-2015, 21:04
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Perhaps the period involving Alison Webster and Baby Jake is a bit like the non-season of Dallas.

Although by extension, surely Bethany shouldn't exist. Perhaps that's why they tried to SORAS her to the extent that she was nearly as old as her own mother
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Old 13-06-2015, 21:16
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This is where the show misses its long-running writers, there aren't many (any?) left now. Even Peter Whalley has moved on. The new ones don't know the history

To be honest you shouldn't even need an archivist to point out a such a big error, the actors should've flagged it or someone else in production who knows a bit about the show. However, if it happened more than 10 years ago they don't care.

Look at the massive retcon they sprung on us with Annie 'owning' the Rovers only to claim on Facebook they were going on about the lease. That didn't make things any better as Annie's son took over the pub after her and lost it, you can't give someone a lease on a building you don't own in your will, and we'd already seen Stella acting worried that she was going to lose the business when Gordon had no claim to anything. Doubtful he had a claim to anything even if it was ownership of the building as it had been so long.

Crossroads was the only one that was done with a separate writer for each story, so they had 3 or 4 per episode which prevented cock ups because the same writer did the same character.
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Old 13-06-2015, 21:40
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This would not have happened if Daran Little was still at Corrie
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