Coronation Street

I think I might start recording Corrie and just skip the crap bits with charcacters I couldn't care less about and over padded storylines and the adverts, I'd probably get through it in a third of the time!

I do like NOT having the Sunday episode, it felt like the day has been freed up! I used to plan around 7.30 - "must eat before Corrie, will call Mum after Corrie, iron the weeks shirts before Corrie" etc. No more Sunday timetable! Yipee! I'm not saying it ruled the day, but it made me look at my watch on a Sunday and there was a distinct feeling that after Corrie it was "getting ready for work time..." It demonstrates to me how wrong it was putting a soap on at the weekend - it's a weekday habitual dose of escapism.

Most definately the best solution for any soap. You can get through 2 Corries and an Emmerdale in less than an hour (sans adverts and crappy bits )

The difference being, Sarah Platt could act.

Lauren's just so painfully awful. Did she end up on Corrie after failing an audition for Hollyoaks or something? Every line is delivered in the same way, ending with a wiggle of the head and a wide-eyed pouty expression.

Perhaps the real point of her is to make people think that the likes of the Mortons and the Bookies "aren't actually that bad" after all.

That's the funniest thing I've heard this year!

But so damn true

How Tragic.

Even I didn't think it was that funny.

Heard of figure of speech?

I do this is 4OD and the Hollyoaks omnibus, I find I can get through a whole week in twenty minutes if its particularly heavy on crapper characters.

Well personal opinion and all that but can't really think of any characters I'd actively fast forward through in Hollyoaks, but with Corrie I do it all the time and watch an episode in about 10 minutes!

Im usually out on a Monday night so tape the episodes and can watch them both in 45 mins by just FF through the ads. It makes a huge difference and I watch every single scene from Corrie every episode. I do FF through some shows though like Hollyoaks and just watch the characters I like.

I liked the episode on a Sunday as it took my mind off work the next day Id prefer it to be on Sunday, Mon, Wed and Friday with doubles or hour long episodes reserved for the occasional special episode (and by that I mean once every 3 months or so not every other week!)

Also Friday nights are part of the weekend and there is more soap on ITV1 this night than any other if you count Echo Beach as a soap. Im much more likely to be in watching tv on a Sunday than I am on a Friday night.

I think the Sunday episode was far less intrusive on the "weekend" schedule than the Friday episode is now - and though I think getting rid of the Sunday Emmerdale is the right decision, I'm not convinced with Corrie.


And also at least with Corrie firmly at 7.30pm we had none of this stupid 7.50pm/9.20pm start time rubbish!


Though I wouldn't be complaining if they did what Jez did and dropped it to 4 a week (going back to 3 would be too much of a cull IMO), it's more the double episodes than the number of episodes which is the problem at the moment - and really I think ITV should just bite the bullet and put it at 7.30pm each weeknight, freeing up the 8pm stuff for other programming.

The problem at the moment though is ITV simply don't have that other programming!