If You Were A Conman ...

[BilSuth]

... wouldn't you head for Weatherfield, where the local council have ghettoised all the gullible people into Coronation Street?

[ummmm]

It's not real. If soaps reflected real life they'd be very very dull.

[andy-hughes]

I know that if I was terminally miserable, and wanted to live in an eight-figure house two minutes walk from a Tube and mainline railway station, with no apparent sensible job of work to fund it, and I enjoyed shouting at people all day every day, I'd certainly head for Walford!

[BilSuth]

Andy, a cure for depression is to stop watching EastEnders. It teaches folk how to have non-stop rows, like a Jeremy Kyle soap.

[tonyav]

with no apparent sensible job of work to fund it,

Leave it ahhhht, andy. They all work on the market where they can have breaks any time they like to go in the Vic / cafe.

[andy-hughes]

Bil - // Andy, a cure for depression is to stop watching EastEnders. It teaches folk how to have non-stop rows, like a Jeremy Kyle soap. //

My take is that, in the same way as Jeremy Kyle, watching EastEnders makes people feel better because, not matter how bad a time you are having, it can't be as bad as being manacled to the cast of grotesques going round their horrible Groundhog Day hell-on-earth existences.

[andy-hughes]

tonyav - // Leave it ahhhht, andy. They all work on the market where they can have breaks any time they like to go in the Vic / cafe. //

Oi, Tone, can I 'ave a word? (Wanders off talking miserably into mobile phone … )

[ummmm]

I watch EE :-)

But isn't this thread about Corrie?

[andy-hughes]

ummm - // I watch EE :-)

But isn't this thread about Corrie? //

Apart from the accents - is there a difference?

[ummmm]

I don't know. EE is the only soap I watch.

[mallyh]

where did the snooker hall pop up from ,it must be the only street where people live, work and die x

[goodgoalie]

I think it popped up from the same place as the new Costa that we never see inside. But so good to see that everyone still buys their endless coffees from Roy in his dirty old cardigan.
Oh, and there are only two solicitors available to the whole population!

[BilSuth]

Mal, in Corrie they have the happy sixth sense of emerging from ( but hidden in) a doorway just in time to overhead a bit of gossip about themselves or their partner. A really lazy cliché which the scriptwriters milk to death.

[mallyh]

yes ,I was hoping someone was in liz's flat to overhear jim and what's her name x

[BilSuth]

Goalie, Soapville is like Toytown -- there is only one policeman (Plod), one doctor, etc. A newcomer is never a stranger. He/she turns out to be someone's love child or deranged long-lost sibling.

[goodgoalie]

As you said Bil:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Question1585073.html

[zebo]

Is Jim back in Corrie? Thought he was banged up forever? I stopped watching it, having watched since day 1 and been in it, a few years ago, ditto Emmerdale, they seemed to get totally daft

[BilSuth]

Yes Zebo. Jim McDonald is back, so he is. He spun Liz a story and she fell for it. Won't spoil it for you as you will soon pick it up ... see Mal's second post on this thread. Eavesdropping only starts new storylines, it never catches out the bad guys.

[DarceyK123]

Mally, yes I was sure sure Steve would head back there after his row with Tracey and hear everything, but sadly not.

[DarceyK123]

The snooker hall has popped up from the same place Daniel & Sinead were going to open and the same place Maria is going for.

There are a lot of closed down businesses on that street, just the sort of place Costa and Co-op are drawn to - not.

[tonyav]

Last time I watched Corrie that bloke Baldwin was errrrrrm involved with that Deirdre woman.