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.

While I am on the Corrie theme...

Last night over 11 million of us tuned in to say goodbye to a Street stalwart. Jack Duckworth passed away last night in his chair. After one last dance with his deceased wife Vera (played by Liz Dawn who made a guest appearance), Jack slipped away after returning home from a surprise birthday party organised for him in The Rovers.

It is the end of an area for Coronation Street and was a fitting end for such a memorable character. Critics and fans highly praised last nights installment of the soap after its transmission.

R.I.P Jack.

Progress is good

I have been abandoning my blog but it is all for a very good reason. That reason being uni work. Obviously that is much more important at the moment and I have to say, I have been doing quite well.

I knew this week was going to be quite a busy one but all in all I have been coping quite well and managing my time well too.

I have completed the first draft of my commission but I think that 1300 words is a bit too much so it needs to be subbed. A meeting with my commission lecturer and all round legend Patrick tomorrow should sort that for me.

I am also making some headway with my radio documentary on 50 years of Corrie. What I thought would only be a four minute documentary is now going to be a 14 minute documentary. A possible trip to Manchester (it's going to be freezing up there) will also help me produce what I hope to be my best piece of radio work to date.

I really want this documentary to have the feeling like the audience are with me every step of the way. I have to confess I did not think of doing it this way but my mentor, David Hendy, who is also a bit of a legend opened my eyes as to the ways in which I could make the documentary fun.

There is not much more to report other than I am actually enjoying doing all of my work. It sounds strange I know but I am.

Now then, time to get back to the emails and planning to bring this Corrie documentary to life.

Can't read my pumpkinface.

I was going to post on here yesterday but to be completely honest, yesterday was a bit of a wasted day.

Harroween

I went to a halloween party on Friday night in Harrow complete with a pumpkin mask from Sainsbury's and two bottles of white wine. The party was really good, I think the bonfire out in the garden made it. I love sitting outside around a fire, even if my clothes did stink the next morning.

Needless to say I spent half of yesterday in bed nursing a hangover and when I did eventually surface I was faced with the task of cleaning my flat from top to bottom. So, I got up had a b

acon sandwich and a cup of tea and set to work. Bedding in the machine and cleaning products out of the cupboard I was ready to go. Two hours later after endless scrubbing, hoovering and wiping I had a spotless flat. I just wonder how long it will last. I am a very tidy person though.

They've Strictly got The X Factor

I was planning on doing some work yesterday as well but the half of the day I spent in bed completely wrote this off. I had some tea and settled down in front of Strictly and The X Factor. They were most definitely the best episodes so far, both having halloween specials. I also fell in love a bit more with Cher Lloyd who ditched the rapping this week and sang completely on her own. Her performance was completely stripped down and she completely nailed it.

Arguments and disagreement were also very visible in both programmes with Len Goodman and Brendan Cole falling out on Strictly and continued banter between Simon, Cheryl, Louis and Dannii reached new heights. It was all very entertaining to watch.

Calling Corrie fans

This morning I woke up refreshed with the extra hour we all got today. Hello GMT! I don't know whether the extra hour has increased my motivation but I have actually achieved some progress today as far as my uni work is concerned. My first draft of my radio documentary is complete. All I need now are some interviews so if anyone out there really likes or loathes Coronation Street please let me know. I could do with some telephone interviews.

Now it is back to more work while I have the television on quietly in the background.