Carnage on the Corrie cobbles

The week is nearly over and Corrie has almost come to the end of its 50th Anniversary celebrations.

The hour long live episode has just finished and one more death has been confirmed. Joining Ashley in the Weatherfield of the sky is Molly Dobbs. Peter Barlow meanwhile is in cardiac arrest and trying to be resuscitated.

Peter married Leanne from his hospital bed and just as he said "I do" his life support machine started beeping. Molly on the other hand died just after telling Sally about her affair with Kevin and the minor detail that he was the father of Jack, her baby.

The episode went pretty well with only a few minor glitches with camerawork. The main mistake was when Sally entered the crumbling wreckage of The Corner Shop without a hard hat. Health and safety are going to have a field day with that.

The ending for me was a bit flat. The penultimate scene was Peter going into cardiac arrest and the end scene, the money shot was of Sally walking up the street into Tyrone's arms and crying, signalling that Molly had died. For me it would have had more impact for the final scene to have been Peter's slip in condition, just for dramatic effect. Then again this isn't EastEnders, something else that annoys me.

Twitter has been driving me mad and so have the forums comparing the two live episodes. How can they even be compared? For a start they were two completely different types of episode with very different storylines. There is just no reason to compare them.

The one thing I am most worried about is the fact that nobody has found Rita in The Kabin yet. If she is the final death and Charlotte (who was battered with a hammer) survives it will be a disastrous end to what has been one of the most memorable weeks on Coronation Street.

Is Baggs the Brand the new Wagner?

As I sit and write this blog post I am in mourning. I am thinking of never watching The Apprentice again. Lord Sugar's decision tonight was just ridiculous.

Liz Locke has been consistent, probably one of the strongest candidates and one of the nicest that The Apprentice has seen this year. Although she has been on the losing team for the past few weeks both her and Stella (that found themselves on the losing team) have been much more consistent than their project manager, Stuart Baggs. He calls himself Stuart Baggs 'The Brand'. On first impressions that tells you what he is like.

In past weeks he has been seen as aggressive, cocky, arrogant. You name it, Stuart has come across as it. When he won the last time he project managed, his face was punchable to say the least. It had 'smug' written all over it.

Tonight when his team lost even he thought he was going to be out. It was his last chance and he had screwed it up. However it was not Baggs that went, Locke was the candidate the Lord Suger uttered 'You're Fired' to. Much to the anger and surprise of many including her fellow candidates. This was the shock firing of the series and I think in Apprentice history. I would not be surprised if Lord Sugar loses a few followers on Twitter, Locke was one of the favourites to win.

What it does suggest is that reality TV is becoming more hypocritical each day. The Apprentice has always been one of the reality shows that has been seen as more respectable, there are no audience votes and although carefully edited, everything you see on screen is real. It is a sob-story free zone because you do not have the candidates personal lives shoved down your throat, they are business people with one aim, to be the next apprentice.

So, could Baggs win it now? I hope not. If he does I will not be watching The Apprentice next year. Baggs winning would just confirm my hunches after tonights firing that the show is becoming farcical.