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Your support makes all the difference.’Tis the season to get caught up with Coronation Street (ITV). It’s either that, or you’ll find yourself stuck watching the big Christmas Day showdown with no idea why Les Dennis is suddenly on telly again talking to that bloke out of Red Dwarf, like it’s 1997, or something.
Pay special attention to Kylie Platt (Paula Lane): she’s been at the centre of big Corrie Christmas storylines for a few years running, so there’s a good chance the current troubles with her speed-dealing ex Callum will end in tragedy. At the very least she’ll probably be off to “Tenerife” before the year’s out (that’s soap-speak for a planned maternity leave).
In Corrie, never does one flight depart for Spain without another touching down, and so we were also welcoming a new arrival in Weatherfield. Erica (Emmerdale’s Claire King) turned up at the Rovers and was introduced as Liz’s old mucker from their days trouble-making on the Costa Del Sun. According to Liz, she has “more front than Brighton, but there is a very good heart beating beneath that cleavage”. It’s a description that would do equally well for Liz herself, Eva and pretty much any other woman who’s ever served behind the bar in a soap opera.
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