Cobbleheads!


Welcome to the first Corrie thread of the week.


Corrie’s on at 9pm each night from Monday – Thursday after Britain’s Got Talent so hopefully we’ll see an increase in quality from some of the rubbish we’ve had to endure recently. {I'm not holding my breath on this though!}


Thanks to Aggie, Purves Grundy, notdebbiedingle and CollieWobbles for last week’s episode threads.


Hope you’ve all had a good weekend.


Details of just what The Hat has lined up for your “viewing pleasure” can, as always, be found by clicking below.




Discuss here!

Welcome to the penultimate score update for the May game.


Last week TNPCA retained the Top Spot in the May game.


This is how things look now after another week of May episodes.

{} Last week’s chart position is in brackets
() Points increase since last week is in brackets


{04} 01) Bettabuys [Man: mccaffep] – 199 points (+64)
{06} 02) Sally's Army [Man: FM Lover] – 196 points (+63)
{03} 03) Izzy Whizzy's Chainsmokers [Man: dullagj2] – 195 points (+53)
{10} 04) First Timer [Man: ps1982] – 194 points (+66)
{02} 05) Phelan Feasts on Anna's Flapjacks [Man: newlampwick] – 194 points (+52)


{09} 06) Maria's Mane Attraction [Man: notdebbiedingle] – 187 points (+59)
{07} 07) Roy Division [Man: Justonecornetto] – 187 points (+54)
{01} 08) Sally's Conservatory [Man: TNPCA] – 180 points (+33)
{11} 09) Carla’s Conquests [Man: Ownnnn] – 179 points (+60)
{05} 10) Kwynne's Hopeless Losers. [Man: kwynne42] – 178 points (+43)


{08} 11) The Woodentops [Man: lotty27] – 175 points (+45)
{13} 12) bye Carla [Man: lewismacf] – 172 points (+57)
{14} 13) Gail's Marvellous Manhole [Man: CollieWobbles] – 161 points (+47)
{12} 14) Aston Villa [Man: SULLA] – 155 points (+36)



Congratulations to mccaffep who climbs three places to take the Top Spot.


There is currently a 26 point gap between first and tenth places, which is an increase of 7 points from last week when the gap was 19 points.


Congratulations to ps1982 who gets the biggest points increase of the and who is also the highest climber with a jump of 6 places.


And well done to everyone else that climbed the leaderboard: CollieWobbles, lewismacf, notdebbiedingle and FM Lover


The maximum possible score this month is 210 points from the following “Dream Team”.

01) Nick– 27 (x 2) = 54 points
02) Carla –26 points
03) Kylie – 18 points
04) Jason –16 points
05) Johnny – 15 points

06=) Kate– 14 points
06=) Miss Hell – 14 points
06=) Sally – 14 points
09=) Jenny – 13 points
09=) Steve – 13 points
09=) Todd – 13 points

Evening again RK

Hello there Cobbleheads

Bon Soir once again Mr. B

Evening Cobbleheads Cheers again RK

Well done on the game Mccafffep

Thank you for the thread, let's hope we get a small improvement on last night's dreadful episodes of both Corrie and BGT.

What? Was her head showing?

I strayed onto the Daily Mirror and Ian Hyland writing about Corrie. He's got it right and the stuff he says about Corrie is true. His main complaint is the bigging up of Carla and Nicks storyline

Like he said, I just don't care

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjKO6n7XIAADVpE.jpg:large

Brilliant article!! So right about Roy/Leanne being sidelined.

Love this bit: "It's not good enough to simply plunk an issue from a newspaper, turn it into a storyline over night and then shrung 'Well, it could happen'"

I have little interest in the wedding & zero sympathy for Carla when it all inevitably blows up in her face!!
The Platt drama does interest me, which means I am looking forward to this year's BGT Corrifest a lot more than the pointless fire last year that we all knew was going to take the life of a character absolutely nobody cared a sh*t about!!


Hi everyone by the way & thanks for the thread RK!!

Congrats McCaffep on the challenge!!

Totally agree with that article.


Any soap or drama lives and dies by the quality of its plots and storylines and, whilst Stuart Blackburn has been in charge the plotting and storylining simply hasn't been good enough.


Any other show with a less loyal audience would have seem a massive drop in viewing figures and questions would no doubt have been asked at ITV Towers.


It is, of course, very easy to lay the blame for the state of Corrie at the feet of Stuart Blackburn and, to be fair, he must take the lions share of the blame.


But the writers and directors must take their share of the blame too. Who on earth decided that the current incarnation of Gail was a good idea Helen Worth must cringe every time she opens a script and each time she's directed to give her simpering, weak , pathetic look. What happened to the strong woman that stood up to Ivy, dealt with Sarah's teenage pregnancy, brawled with Eileen on the Street and coped with the aftermath of Richard Hillman?


Ultimately , of course, the blame lies with the ITV execs who appointed Blackburn to the producer's post in the first place and who left him there for so long. Their lack of judgement only says to me that they're not fit for purpose either. Corrie is one of ITV top rated shows and any executive worth their salt should be protecting and nurturing it rather than neglecting it and taking it for granted.

2 Poll Votes already!


Have callumfeeman and timebug borrowed Mystic Meg's crystal ball I wonder

Evening all & TFTT RK.

Has Tracy ever shared a scene with Phelan?

Might be good, they could take each other out.

And I don't mean for a half a pint of mild.

Did any of you see the actor who plays Phelan on Lorraine this morning?

yes, I saw it. Phelan is a fully fledged artist. Lorraine was her usual gushing self

"that's ggrreeaattt.."

Too true 😂

Good evening, all.

Cheers for the thread, RK.

I heard she has to go through 10 pairs of knickers, and they burn the chair because of her getting moist each show.

Thanks for the thread RK. Fantastic article also.

I'm not expecting any more than a 3

Hi everyone, and thanks for the thread RK

Hate BGT

Evening all and thanks for the thread.

Last night's episode was painful... so why am I back?

I'm still trying to get the thought of him on Eileen out of my mind.

Evening all TFTT

These days I'd liken Corrie to a motorway accident that you wait ages to pass.
You know You shouldn't look as you go passed but you just can't help yourself