Coronation Street

It was mentioned on This Morning today that the snowfall is affecting filming of the soaps, and Emmerdale filming has been suspended altogether at the moment. How will this affect Corrie's live episode? Apart from the technical aspects, there will be continuity issues. It'll be interesting to see how they handle it if heavy snow falls in Manchester before or during the live broadcast.

As long as it is not snowing at the time of broadcast it shouldn't be too difficult to clear if they have enough people/shovels available. An EastEnders episode earlier this year had a scene where you could see snow piled up in the background. They did quite well, if it wasn't for that one scene where you could see it in the background you wouldn't have known it was being filmed just after a snow fall.

http://www.itv.com/coronationstreet/videos/backstage/50thpreviewspecial/

Incredible 2 minute trailer for the tram crash posted on ITV.com.

Wow looks epic.

What caused the initial fires on the viaduct? Where was the ignition source? Surely the trams don't carry petrol.

There's a gas explosion in The Joinery isn't there ?

but the bar below has booze in it so the trame will hit it set of a spark and then it will go up

Not that much, it's clearly a consistent source of ignition such as a petrol or gas stream.

They don't, they're all electric. The flames on the viaduct are most likely from the blast inside The Joinery

does that place have gas pipe>?

It's a gas explosion from the Joinery kitchen

Theres some exclusive clips on the Alan T show it seems ( whether that's simialar to whats on the itv website I'm not sure)