i remember jack duckworth saying "i'm never setting foot in this place again" the buying it a year later

How many times did Betty leave the Rovers or get sacked, only to return the next day.

Who could blame her? Pa Nazir is a total silverfox and much more of a heartthrob than the other men on the street who are half his age

I agree. But don't tell Ken Barlow!

Yep JASE is back in the Rovers. All angry and sh*t!

Yep. Who'da thunk it?!!

Crikey could Corrie have overdone the gloom in Tony's flat any more than they did?

And isn't the Kylie bumping into people joke hilarious?

Ken and Audrey. Audrey and Ken. Awww. Will Freddie turn up and will Ken grimace?

Well, Freddie's arrived. Now we have lesbians out and about and no sign of Sophie Webster. That's a big SOR!

Have the RSPCA opened kennels in Coronation Street? There's a lot of barking going on in the background these days.

I thought tonight's 2 episodes were complete SoRs from start to finish. Dreadful writing, dreadful story lines. What was the vicar doing getting all angy and sorting out the protaganists? Ridiculous!

They're all barking!

Total rubbish - the flat Tony lived in previously when he was living in Wetherfield was beautiful and was immaculately kept. Why would Tony start living in the way that the state of the Birmingham flat portrayed?

We need another character like Hilda Ogden or Blanche - we are sadly lacking strong charachters ATM.

I think it's time the writers put that stick away. This pony is dead.

Barely watched the second episode as the first was so tedious.


Lacking 'characters' full stop.

They are either oddballs, or fiesty females who like doing it whenever, wherever. Where are the strong male characters? Where are the role models? I'd love to see Bethany or Craig heading off to university, but they'll no doubt be consigned to jobs at t'bistro or caff.

What made jason think he had any right to go into Tony's flat, and go through his belongings? How did he know the address, and have the keys?

Tony had a brother, he may have had a surviving spouse or civil partner. He may have had surviving legitimate children. All of whom would have a better claim than jason.

And what on earth was jason's OTT grief about? He saw his father for a few months in 2003, and then again for about 18 months in 2014 - 2015, during which he didn't see a lot of him.

Wasn't that Michelle and Liz?


Definitely lacking characters and in more ways than one. Oddballs and feisty females apart where were all customers in the Rovers? It was a Friday night and the place was empty.



Has probate even been granted?

Jason's reaction was typical soap OTT nonsense and he didn't even act it that well.

I thought Craig was at art college?


He did have the right, being next of kin. The hospital would have given him Tony's belongings.

Children trump siblings, and they dont do the "legitimate" thing any more. It is all the same.
We know Tony wasnt married because he was going to marry Liz, and I think Jason would have known about other relatives.

However close you were its a terrible loss and a shock and apart from the yelling in the pub i think it was portrayed very well.

You can tell tonight's episodes were written by that "quirky" scriptwriter who likes to add a humorous theme to his scripts, and tonight we had a food one with the smoothie, shepherd's pie and last meals convo. I suppose we are to find this all amusing......

That's just Anna Windass practicing her lines for another confrontation with Phelan.

I can't quite get my head round this Audruh/Ken/Freddie love triangle nonsense, only because weren't we all supposed to be appalled Ken had moved on from Deirdre so quickly with the awful Nessa. And that was clearly just a plot device so we'd be less appalled when he and Audruh get together as she wasn't the one besmirching Deirdre's memory.

Yet Freddie is sniffing around a new woman merely weeks after the demise of the sainted Sadie and no one has even passed comment it's a bit soon

And the drinks being spilt onto Kylie meaning she had to go home and get changed twice


If you mean us the viewers not passing comment on Freddie seemingly moving on so quickly maybe that is because we didn't know Sadie whereas with Deirdre we knew her for the best part of 40 years and Ken was married to her for a lot of that time so it felt more of a betrayal the way he moved onto Nessa so quickly.

Depression? there are a few reasons, dont forget he was humiliated and left with his tail between his legs,and he lost everything, it may have affected his character and he was perhaps spiralling down, the evidence showed he was drinking heavily too, the chap was just at rock bottom I expect.

Thats the impression it gave me anyway, it needed no words.

And as for Freddie's nonsense with the Bank about Sadie's accounts. I know that Banks can be unhelpful and difficult, but even so, it's never, (well rarely these days) as bad as was made out. It's obvious that the scriptwriter has never had to report a bereavement, so, once again: DO YOUR RESEARCH

You have to go through the deceased things and list all of the assets with their value in order to get a grant of probate so that any inheritance tax can be calculated and paid before it's granted and before the executors can sell what needs to be sold and carry out what's in the person's will. With my miser FIL, his place was so bad that everything except his money and house was listed as "no value".

Before then a bank will release any money to pay for a funeral on production of a death certificate.

Has Jason registered Tony's death?

Or in the case of Jason as he seems to be the only child of Tony and no other relatives have been mentioned, Jason could just take all the personal belongings and decide what to keep and sell himself, obviously he will need the death certificate and proof he is Tony's son to access any bank accounts and will probably need to involve a solicitor to be able to sell the flat