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a few times people have commented on whether actors have a say in how their character is portrayed. Read in interview that sally was going to be a punk originally until Michael Le veil said that kevin would never date a punk so they ditched that idea
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Now they are poor, Fiz will probably get Roy to save all the accumulated bacon and sausage fat from the cafe for Ty's butties. Mind you, she's probably got a few decades worth and an endless supply of assorted and congealed fats on the bottom of her oven. So she can just scrape some off and slap that on a bit of bread.
Even better, if she's had the oven on, Ty and the family can just dip their bread straight in. Yum yum. They really are a disgusting pair. The sort of people who might be on Jeremy Kyle's programme. Fiz is a good harpie and she's certainly got the teeth for it! And Ty certainly has the in-bred idiot look. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm looking forward to seeing skint Fiz and Ty try to make ends meet. I don't suppose we'll be seeing them in the cafe or pub for months while they're economising
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I've read, though I'm not interested enough to check, that at the time of MM's (admittedly brilliant) question, Paul Daniels wasn't yet a millionaire, but Caroline Ahern was herself married to one.
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Wasn't particularly referring to Corrie. Was answering a question posed by Melisende_PF wondering if it was peculiar to Brits for men not to usually go for women at least a decade younger as the do in the USA.
Melisende_PF - Please don't think that relationships or much else in Corrie are in any way representative of life in the UK. Perish the thought! Quote:
I like that Fiz has natural teeth. It is far more realistic that the dayglo white choppers that Tina dazzled the street with.
![]() Fiz's teeth are so awful she looks like she would be at home on the Jeremy Kyle Show. I know it's bad to criticise the personal looks of someone and I don't think she should get those awful choppers but she could get them tidied up a bit. Mind you, they are in keeping with the part she plays. Sorry.
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noticed in the Jenny story she mention that Kevin had also lost a child. How would she know, she was out of the series for eight years before that happened. The script should have had Kevin mention loosing Jake, and Alison, the fact that he'd be 15 now.
Also not mentioned which is very relevant is that Alison did exactly what Jenny did in her grief and abducted a child, in her case Bethany Platt Having Jenny mention it was stupid. Also silly was her looking pleased at the news that Hope was better when she doesn't know the Dobbs / Stape family from adam Quote:
I thought Corrie were trying to right a wrong there.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-...th-of-his-baby |
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I thought Corrie were trying to right a wrong there.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-...th-of-his-baby
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Actually it was that when they first met in the 70's, he was'nt yet a millionaire. But yes, Ahern was married to one.
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Don't get why he felt it was important enough to apologise, why do soap producers take themselves and a fictional soap so seriously, talk about first world problems or what.
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I forget not so much what happened in the past, but who it happened to because they use the same story over and over with different characters and it's easy to forget who it was on any particular occasion. When something's questioned or raised I'll look up Corripedia on
www.coronationstreet.wikia.com/ for what happened to a particular character or the archives on http://www.corrie.net/updates/updates.html for what happened in a story to refresh my memory. If I and others can do that why don't the writers do the same when planning something? |
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I forget not so much what happened in the past, but who it happened to because they use the same story over and over with different characters and it's easy to forget who it was on any particular occasion. When something's questioned or raised I'll look up Corripedia on
www.coronationstreet.wikia.com/ or the archives on http://www.corrie.net/updates/updates.html to refresh my memory. If I and others can do that why don't the writers do the same when planning something? |
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But is it really that important that the producer of a fictional programme feels he has to apologise for it?
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I forget not so much what happened in the past, but who it happened to because they use the same story over and over with different characters and it's easy to forget who it was on any particular occasion. When something's questioned or raised I'll look up Corripedia on
www.coronationstreet.wikia.com/ for what happened to a particular character or the archives on http://www.corrie.net/updates/updates.html for what happened in a story to refresh my memory. If I and others can do that why don't the writers do the same when planning something? "While at Manchester Polytechnic, he wrote his dissertation about Coronation Street. After graduating in 1988, he was taken on by Granada Television as an archivist. He has written several books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the show and its characters and co-wrote Betty Driver's autobiography." |
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No - they shouldn't get it wrong in the first place.
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I forget not so much what happened in the past, but who it happened to because they use the same story over and over with different characters and it's easy to forget who it was on any particular occasion. When something's questioned or raised I'll look up Corripedia on
www.coronationstreet.wikia.com/ for what happened to a particular character or the archives on http://www.corrie.net/updates/updates.html for what happened in a story to refresh my memory. If I and others can do that why don't the writers do the same when planning something? Quote:
No - they shouldn't get it wrong in the first place.
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or, resurrecting a comment I've made a few times before, return to using an archivist. It can't be too difficult to employ someone to keep an eye on the characters/story histories - as they used to ... Daran Little ...
"While at Manchester Polytechnic, he wrote his dissertation about Coronation Street. After graduating in 1988, he was taken on by Granada Television as an archivist. He has written several books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the show and its characters and co-wrote Betty Driver's autobiography." Quite. |
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I wonder when we can expect the baliffs knocking on Fiz and Tyrones door that should be worth a few chuckles.
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all characters have history which is an integral part of them and it's important to remember that so it makes sense in future episodes.
I Remember a few years ago they wanted Tania Pooley to come back in and the actress Eva Pope said no, because there was no way Tania would ever return as when she left everybody hated her for what she did to Raquel and Des, deliberately splitting them up just because she could. She had no family there, no connection with the place, so why return. even way back in the depths of history viewers remembered Ena Shaples not wanting any éclairs with her half dozen 'fancies' in the first episode, so were rather surprised a decade later to see her eating one. back then the writers did not expect the show to run and people to build up a history of the character's back stories. in the future we expect them to remember that adult Hope had cancer as a child or Amy is lactose intolerant so drinks black coffee because we will remember those things |
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or, resurrecting a comment I've made a few times before, return to using an archivist. It can't be too difficult to employ someone to keep an eye on the characters/story histories - as they used to ... Daran Little ...
"While at Manchester Polytechnic, he wrote his dissertation about Coronation Street. After graduating in 1988, he was taken on by Granada Television as an archivist. He has written several books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the show and its characters and co-wrote Betty Driver's autobiography." |
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Actually it was that when they first met in the 70's, he was'nt yet a millionaire. But yes, Ahern was married to one.
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I wonder when we can expect the baliffs knocking on Fiz and Tyrones door that should be worth a few chuckles.
![]() Which minor point didn't stop the bailiffs turning up for someone else : wasn't it Owen? |
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all characters have history which is an integral part of them and it's important to remember that so it makes sense in future episodes.
I Remember a few years ago they wanted Tania Pooley to come back in and the actress Eva Pope said no, because there was no way Tania would ever return as when she left everybody hated her for what she did to Raquel and Des, deliberately splitting them up just because she could. She had no family there, no connection with the place, so why return. even way back in the depths of history viewers remembered Ena Shaples not wanting any éclairs with her half dozen 'fancies' in the first episode, so were rather surprised a decade later to see her eating one. back then the writers did not expect the show to run and people to build up a history of the character's back stories. in the future we expect them to remember that adult Hope had cancer as a child or Amy is lactose intolerant so drinks black coffee because we will remember those things
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One of their creditors would have needed to take them to court first, and win their case. (Okay, there are a few exceptions to this).
Which minor point didn't stop the bailiffs turning up for someone else : wasn't it Owen? |
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Well it seems to have been forgotten that Tracy had a kidney transplant and would need to be on anti-rejection medication for the rest of her life, and lets not forget part time epilepsy sufferer David Platt who would need to take medication to lessen the chance of a seizure but might still be prone if he got stressed yet is the centre of a pretty stressful situation of covering up Callums death yet seems to be coping pretty well with it.
![]() David's been OK on his medication, which nowadays is pretty good, until he had a seizure when out with Max, who had the sense to hone Nick. |
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They have mentioned Tracey a few times, for instance when she and Rob were talking about her lack of a kidney, and she did collapse with a kidney infection a while ago and ended up in hospital. They asked her if she was taking her ant-rejection drugs regularly.
David's been OK on his medication, which nowadays is pretty good, until he had a seizure when out with Max, who had the sense to hone Nick. And I mean all soaps not just Corrie. |
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It's not complaints as such. More frustration that if viewers know what happens in certain situations or remember what happened to a character or place in the past, why can't the writers who get paid to produce what we see do some research.
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It's not complaints as such. More frustration that if viewers know what happens in certain situations or remember what happened to a character or place in the past, why can't the writers who get paid to produce what we see do some research.
As for frustration, I guess I am just unfortunate that I have real issues to get frustrated about. |
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But someone must have complained otherwise why would the producer feel as if he needed to apologise which in truth he didn't need to do as it wasn't that important.
As for frustration, I guess I am just unfortunate that I have real issues to get frustrated about. |
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