It came to my attention when watching last nights episode, that the single episodes work so much better than the doubles. The pacing of them is spot on, I don't get bored, and there's always a nice mixture of characters, light scenes and storylines. They feel very natural.

In contrast, the double episodes are usually very tedious. Even when a strong storyline is going on, they can still bring the whole plot down. They feel a lot more contrived and the pacing is all over the place. The formula has been the same for years now. Build it up slowly in the first episode, so it can come to a cliffhanger (Which are most the time pretty naff), then in the second episode, have 5 minutes of drama at the beginning, before going to sleep for the rest. Monday's episodes were a clear example of this, in my opinion.

It's such a shame the show is increasing to six episodes, rather than cutting back. Four episodes a week (Preferably Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri), and Corrie would be the best soap on TV, if it produced good quality storylines.

Thoughts on this?

The double episodes should be saved for huge storylines/episodes, such as Mad Maya's death, Kirsty and Tyrone's wedding and Hayley takes her own life.

Last nights episode was shocking.

This Monday's cliffhanger I felt was one of better ones.

As we were left wondering if David was bash Claytons head in

It varies for me!!
This week I found both monday episodes excellent whereas, last nights episode could have dumped the whole of the Sally/Yasmeen/Tim/Delivery driver nonsense for me, much as the Platt scenes were superb again!!

I really don't think the programme is shot in 'episodes' as such.

I believe they record enough material for a week's viewing at the very least - probably nearer two - then they just edit it and chop it up into segments suitable for 30 minute broadcasts, allowing for ad breaks.

The fact that sometimes we see two episodes back to back should actually make no difference to the feel of the story, than if we saw one episode on one day and another on the next.

It's common knowledge that soaps are recorded well in advance of the time they appear to be portraying .. hence, for example, we sometimes see weather patterns totally out of kilter with what the rest of us have been experiencing.

Isn't Maya still alive? Or has my memory gone right to pot?

Yes Maya is alive.

Thank you! I'm not losing it just yet then...

My bad, I completely forgot she (Luckily) survived

I just don't think the double episodes are required. It gives the soap a really bad pacing in my opinion.

No problemo I loved Maya - always hoped she'd make a comeback someday.

I agree with you on the double eps. Less really can be more sometimes.

The doubles are just ordinary episodes shown on the same night.

No Maya was killed off. Remember the car came in the back of her. I wish she come back and have lots of more drama.

She survived, if I recall she went to prison?

No Maya survived.

The whole delivery driver thing, was a bit of comedy probably to try and break up, what has been a harrowing week.

On Maya, we were meant to believe she died, when the truck, squashed her car into a pancake, but who knows.

Be great without anybody knowing, she appeared again in October, and was the one who caused the stunt