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Post by Nathan on Mar 7, 2024 23:32:34 GMT
Meant to post this in the history thread. My mistake.
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Post by holey on Mar 16, 2024 22:32:45 GMT
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Post by Nathan on Mar 16, 2024 23:01:34 GMT
It's not like they will leave someone in charge who can bring real change and take some risks. Could do with a new Brian Park but that is unlikely to ever happen.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 16, 2024 23:07:56 GMT
Don't worry in the future Corrie can rely on AI to run their show.
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Post by wallis on Mar 16, 2024 23:13:22 GMT
I read about this earlier today. Who would want the job as Producer without a free rein to hire and fire? ITV have shot themselves in the foot. If they want viewers to return to watching they need to address the issues that we on Forums keep bringing up. Do they even read them? I only half watch CS these days because it doesn't entertain me at all.
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Post by holey on Mar 16, 2024 23:49:22 GMT
I read about this earlier today. Who would want the job as Producer without a free rein to hire and fire? ITV have shot themselves in the foot. If they want viewers to return to watching they need to address the issues that we on Forums keep bringing up. Do they even read them? I only half watch CS these days because it doesn't entertain me at all. It took the BBC years to wake up and smell the coffee with EastEnders, but when they found the right show runner, it has showed a soap in crisis can be turned around if you have somebody at the helm that knows the show from top to bottom. I think Corrie's problems are more deep routed than EastEnders were and the main problem with the Corrie is with corporate ITV. Imo they need to ditch both of the McLeod's or find them work else where in the company.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 17, 2024 11:18:32 GMT
40 years ago today Stan Ogden made his final appearance on Coronation Street. The character suddenly disappeared from the programme due to Bernard Youens increased poor health, and he would later be admitted to hospital in April that year. He would later pass away in August that year, following multiple strokes and having a leg amputated. Although Stan was absent from the programme, the production team would keep his presence felt by being mentioned by Hilda and making noises when going about the house off-screen. The character would be killed off in November 1984. I feel Stan came into his own again once Eddie left in late 1983. While he was still quite infirm, Stan did see chirpier and more alert in his final months in the show, and more chatty. Bernard had had speech therapy since his minor stroke in 1975, but I do feel Eddie Yeats did overshadow Stan a bit. I've always like Stan and Hilda's dynamic and to me are the ultimate Corrie pairing, even above the likes of Jack and Vera Duckworth (who I believe were made full-time to become the next Stan and Hilda). It's a shame when I look at comments on other soap forums people seem more bothered about bringing up the fact Stan was supposedly a drunken domestic abuser who battered Hilda, as if that was what the character was defined by throughout his reign on the show. Sure he was a workshy beggar at times, but nothing compared to what characters we get now. Bernard Youens and Jean Alexander worked well together, and she continued to speak highly of him many years after leaving the show. Stan's send-off was also sad, I couldn't imagine having that much emotion in some of the characters that exist today. Also I respect Youens for still pushing on despite his clear signs of ill health in the 1970s and suffering multiple strokes. A lot of older actors on the show were always determined to keep going despite becoming ill, Bryan Mosley was another one. Of course it is each to their own if people liked Stan Ogden, but I wish he was stop being made to be some villain. To me his domestic abuser past is likely retconned out of existence, just like how Ivy Tilsley's entire backstory in the 1970s was heavily retconned by 1979.
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Post by CAEF on Mar 17, 2024 12:56:25 GMT
Stan hit Hilda in January 1966 but that was the last time he did so, and he had only been in the show a year and a half by then and had not hit her before in the show. Also that was almost 60 years ago where women did not report domestic abuse like today.
Tony and Sylvia Ogden were totally retconned out of existence by 1965, as in December that year Stan said Irma is his only daughter. Like in Emmerdale in 1972, Tom and Pat Merrick had 3 children, Jackie, Sandie and Tommy but when they returned in 1980, only teenage Jackie and Sandie came along and Tommy was written out of existence.
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Post by roverman on Mar 18, 2024 8:58:37 GMT
I read about this earlier today. Who would want the job as Producer without a free rein to hire and fire? ITV have shot themselves in the foot. If they want viewers to return to watching they need to address the issues that we on Forums keep bringing up. Do they even read them? I only half watch CS these days because it doesn't entertain me at all. I am bemused as to how he’s been able to move into the top job and then nominate his own wife to sit in the chair whilst they struggle to hire someone else and let’s be honest who wants to take on the show, with the predecessor and his wife ‘doing your legs’ if they don’t like your ideas? Plus where’s the freedom to criticise the old boss and clear out the dross which is what every new TV soap boss has been doing since time immemorial.
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Post by CAEF on Mar 18, 2024 15:52:03 GMT
If I was EP I would be fair but would not allow any ass lickers. And never allow any cast members or crew members attempt to call the tune. As Annie Walker said about Hilda Ogden "Whoever pays the piper calls the tune".
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Post by CAEF on Mar 27, 2024 12:55:41 GMT
I read that Kate Brooks from Emmerdale is to be the new producer of Corrie.
Yet again they are using Emmerdale as a stepping stone for Corrie.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 27, 2024 22:12:18 GMT
To think it is 14 years since the last time we got a producer that didn't come over from Emmerdale.
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Post by roverman on Mar 28, 2024 11:43:51 GMT
It would be interesting to know how far down the list she was given the article the other week that they were struggling to find someone to take the job!
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Post by CAEF on Mar 28, 2024 13:09:42 GMT
I wonder why they keep using former Emmerdale producers for Corrie?
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Post by Nathan on Mar 28, 2024 20:53:28 GMT
Dunno, must be easier. Not sure what Emmerdale is like so can't comment on her skills as a producer. Best of luck anyway, I doubt it will change much. The show plays is safe now.
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