Coronation Street

Corrie's Tracy extends contract

Kate Ford has revealed she is to sign a new contract at Coronation Street for another year.

Kate, who plays Tracy Barlow, will play the character until 2006.

Kate said: "I won't be going until 2006. There are a lot of things to play."

Corrie bosses plan to spice up Tracy's love life reports The Sun.

First she will dump new lover Nathan Harding. Then she will sleep with steve after the funeral of her dad Ray.

A show insider said: "Tracy's one of our most popular characters and there is no way viewers want to see her go."

ITV1 are showing a repeat of Wednesday night's edition, tomorrow (Friday 8th) at 2.35pm, where Royal Wedding coverage would have been.

Couldn't this extra timeslot been put to better use and show the episode where Ken and Dierdre married the first time round?

That is what we get with Emmerdale. Even though Corrie is fine at the moment, if they cut the fifth episode. Or maybe even cut two episodes, so then we have three a week. It would get higher ratings I think, and would be good, and improve the quality of the show enormously. As somebody said on here a while ago, Corrie is the Jewel in ITV's crown, and they need to re-think a few things.

It depends what you all padding, one persons padding is another person's light relief.

For example, that business with Fred falling down a hole, people who dislike Fred and only watch corrie to see people set fire to shops and murder their dads would have thought that was a load of rubbish, but proper corrie fans would see it as comedy which is what corrie does best.

Good idea. But ITV appear not to want to show old episodes for some reason. I have that episode from the Plus recordings, havent watched it for years though.




Comedy storylines Corrie does very well like the one with Fred. But others, like around the time of the Maya storyline, there was an awful lot of padding, like the dinner party at Dev's, Sean and Kelly from the factory, and it was very boring.

And im a long term Corrie fan, my earliest memories coming from 1986 but was too young to really appreciate the programme then, Ive hardly missed an episode since late 1988/1989 when I was about 8, and watched all of what Granada Plus showed so I stick with it through good and bad times.

I've watched Corrie since the Bet and Alec, Reg Holdsworth days. I agree that Corrie continues its Northern humour which is just brilliant for the soap.

I missed Wednesday's episode as (ironically) I saw Peter Kay at the Albert Hall. Can anyone recap what happened?

does anyone know if i'd be able to download last sundays episode from the internet? I missed it you see. :

There's a link below to the page which will update you on the Wednesday episode.

Wednesday Episode Update

I used to hate Tracey, but now I find her oddly attractive.............is this normal?

7 episodes of Corrie next week.

Sunday once, twice on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

It's the week where... highlight --> Tommy is exhumed, and when Ray is buried. <-- highlight

I posted that information on Tuesday. IMO it doesnt need 7 episodes

I'm so sick of ITV's scheduling.

It really pisses me off that Coronation Street is all it can do to get big ratings. 5 times a week is FAR too much as it is, 7 is just ridiculous.

As I posted in another thread, it should be like this:

Corrie: Mon, Weds -- 7.30pm
Emmerdale: Tues, Thurs - 7.30pm

Friday would depend on which soap has a bigger week in terms of storylines.

ITV are really going to find themselves in massive trouble if they don't stop relying on the soaps.