Most of the time, making a purchase is in the Rovers is met with a "It's on the house" response, so he was probably hoping to get them gratis. It wasn't his lucky night for some reason.

That's one funny description of Jack. Gormlessly. I won't be able to watch that episode without thinking of your description and bursting out laughing. Even now I find it hard to stop. Now I can't wait to see it. I wouldn't be dead for dollars to miss it. 😁😁😁😤

Just in case anyone is wondering that was not a typo.

Mary swanning out of the florists for the last time but still wearing her work pinney. As if Tracy wouldn't have ripped it from her in a heartbeat.

The scene between Tracy and Mary in the florists was quite vomit inducing Tracy being nice to people doesn't' work, they need to get Tracy back on the vinegar and battery acid cocktails ASAP.

This puzzled me too - but I'm thinking now maybe they just told Si Leanne was at Janice's to explain her staying in hospital

It all depends on what you mean by 'scenes', how Janet has phrased her e mail to David Nugent and how he interprets the question and then replies.

Anybody who thinks the Corrie crew do not go 'on location' to use both the outside and inside of building for obvious economic and common sense reasons is living in cloud cuckoo land. Or do you really think they spend ages filling a huge area of the studio floor to build, for example, an old fashioned court room on set, complete with old fashioned seating, a raised bench for the judge, a dock for the accused and best of all the old stained glass windows, complete with Latin mottoes for the sake of letting someone have a few minutes in court?

They do it all the time - that is why the production vehicles can be seen all around the Manchester area and adjacent counties as the actors and camera crews are filming inside.

If you or any others insist I make these things up, it means that the set builders made a very good job making the set in this pic of the Platt family coming out of a building with its weathered stone pillars and steps and the old court room used in the same story episodes.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.u...ears/#gallery0

was a very silly scene.

Jack see's Anna is hurt, thinks "I must go to get help." gets outside, runs into the road, thinks "Where shall I go to find some... OOH FIREWORKS!"

Exactly true that you think you have missed an episode. Total mess just now, with half baked storylines reaching conclusions with no substance to them e.g. who ended up with the big TV, what about the investigation in to the new flats, hairdressers closed, all the staff are AWOL, and on and on it goes.

I don't bother to think any of the above out. A straightforward issue has been made far too complicated. I can see from watching Corrie that very occasionally they film on location. But I thought this was just a simple dispute about where Corrie hospital interior scenes are filmed. Is it on location in a hospital or in a studio?

Yes. Illegally with no regard to the distance between buildings people and so on. Currently the law seems to suggest around 100 or more metres. The little weasel has been hovering at just a few feet over the roof tops.

Anyone doing that round here would most likely be having multiple catapult attacks in the hope of crashing the ludicrous toy.


If the batteries ran out and, by good fortune, it landed in my back garden he would be welcome to the assorted and mis-shapen wreckage, of course.

Decide to go one day and leave the next day. That's our Corrie.






Well, quite clearly Eva did the early shift and Liz did the evening shift. What's wrong with that? Corrie are stupid they seem to have only one bar person no matter what.


That's why within minutes of the start, i was confused. I asked if we'd missed an episode!


Mary has proved her worth with children and will be a godsend to when it comes to raising her grandchild. Just look at the way those lovely Alahan kids turned out.


You'd think there'd be folk standing outside the bistro having a fag or have they suddenly discovered a beer/fag garden round the back?!!



Sorry I know that bit about it being a story to tell Simon. I just thought it was a stupid excuse. Simon's a bright kid and would wonder why Leanne had gone when Toyah's just turned up etc...

Where Corrie's concerned i'm feeing a bit like Nick this week -

http://www.dailyllama.com/spam/misce...sepad_mp4a.jpg

Actually with pub mark ups £105 is cheap for 3 bottles of 'good' champers. Was the label displayed as part of their Product Placement Payments?

Agree with everyone's "confusion" posts. My head is still reeling after watching Christmas Eve/Day/New Year's Eve episodes in rapid succession.

For such special events there should be a 3 line whip for the characters who would expected to be working on the most used sets for special occasions. There is no way the MacDonald clan wouldn't be in the pub and the Bistro would certainly need more than Robert working. I must've missed the bit where Steph got fired.

It was! It was me originally wondering about Phelan's latest ward appearing different to THE private ward he and all the others occupy. But a thread newbie deliberately misquoted me, took the pi$$ somewhat and others seems to accept his/her misquote as if I had actually said it and it became a bee in my bonnet and one where I had to make a point.

Your post was the only convenient one this morning for me to reply to and have my Mancunian four-penn'orth - nothing personal.

and it's always struck me that, given that the camper van disppeared without any apparent concern from her - she has a remarkable number of objects from her life still in her possession.

All of these type of irritants and giant SORs would be obliterated with just a few lines of dialogue between relevant characters, a simple conversation would explain rationally & believably many of the loose ends which infuriate & insult the viewers

Wouldnt Johnny have gone to a whole salers like Costco for his christmas drinks??? Then he could have put the receipt through his books for the tax man .

I would also have assumed that her passport was in the camper van....

Alcohol isn't permitted under Product Placement so if a named brand was visible you can bet OFCOM will rap ITV's knuckles. Things like the bar's optics, sweets in The Kabin etc are fine as no money has exchanged hands so they can dress the sets.

One thing when Anna fell down the stairs... where was that random shaft of light coming from? And did anyone else notice how both Steph and Phelan seemed to have more lighting on them... something to suggest 2017 is the year they meet their maker?

i think she was pushed by the ghost of les dennis.

a shaft of light in number 13?

wonder if they will have Jack having a dream about an old lady with curlers in his room asking what's happened to her Muriel

then Kevin gets the call about Hilda passing


one big christmas SOR is there has been no nativity, maybe nobody's parent turned up drunk or had a baby so wasn't worth filming

now all this talk of hospital sets when they film in schools they do seem to use real schools

I saw all that mess with the misquoting. The issue just seemed to grow. Beyond filmed on location in a hospital or filmed on a set, It was far too hard for me to follow! I tend to glaze over and drift off into a geriatric daze nowadays if anything gets too complicated!

And surely you mean nowt personal!

a fun story would be Kevin and Anna tying the knot and when Jack finds out he's so shocked at the thought of Anna being his step mum he begs Jenny to abduct him again

Reply from David Nugent at Corrie:

"All hospital scenes are shot on set at our studio complex, years ago(25) we use to use Manchester Northern Hospital but it became impractical.

Once again many thanks for your e-mail and may I wish you a Very Happy New Year. Best Wishes, David."

Overuse by Corrie producers of the call to Tyrone or Kevin for the vehicle breakdown service.