Coronation Street

according to The Sun Mike Baldwin has been sacked !

Well, no-one watching in my house thought the "*******" stood out - it's featured on other pre-watershed programmes regularly when the script requires it.

I doubt they'll be any complaints about it, but a random MP and the Mary Whitehouse brigade will probably start a campaign to get ITV taken off air.

Johnny Briggs is denying it though...
Ananova article.

Well that's the sun for you, anything for a good story. It's totally rubbish, he is leaving, but not until the end of 2006, and he hasn't be sacked, it was his decision to leave.

There are unofficial guidelines about the use of swear words (strong language if you prefer) in pre-watershed drama - it is permissible but only for dramatic licence.

The word "b**t**d" is usually allowed once or twice a year in the main soaps, and apart from late night editions of Brookside and Hollyoaks, is the crudest word used in soap.

Each soap is allowed one use of the word "bitch" each week, and restricted use of the word "bloody".

I doubt using such words will cause anyone apart from the Mail brigade to complain, it might have been different if Todd called Jason a c...

I hear Todd is gonna slap Sarah on corrie

Oh keep up, he did that last night, before he left.

I noticed on the omnibus edition this afternoon on ITV1 they didn’t show last Sunday’s episode, and started off with Monday’s. This is clearly due to there being a 1 hour episode on Wednesday and they couldn’t fit it all in and were just given the usual slot for 5 episodes not 6, but surely the whole idea of an omnibus is you get ALL the episodes.

And for those of us that watch old episodes on Plus, unfortunately there are no plans to bring back the early evening episode, apparently the crime shows that plus screen are more popular than the soaps. However the good news is Plus plan to carry on showing the 9am and 12noon editions. Storylines are really good at the moment and we are only a few weeks away from 1994 episodes. Granada + will be 8 years old on Friday so its taken 8 years to show from 1976-1994, (18 years or storylines)

They cut the word out of todays omnibus edition of corrie today on ITV 1 when Todd caught Sarah and Jason in bed it was "You" and then cut to the next part of that scene.

Apparently there were 27 complaints according to one of the papers the other day. That's out of a total of 11 million viewers. Kind of says it all really!

A new Corrie website is up and running - a Digital Spy member started it because ITV have done a bad job at their one.

http://www.coronationstreet.co.nr/

Spencer For Hire:
"Apparently there were 27 complaints according to one of the papers the other day. That's out of a total of 11 million viewers. Kind of says it all really!"

Despite the low ratio, it's 27 complaints too many.

Oh well, OFCOM won't uphold them anyway