Corrie

,William Roache (ken) is 89 and Barbara Knox (rita) is 87 88 on the 30th. Both doing very well to be still working..

very funny with tyrone under the table last night. Maureen Lipman's character is brilliant also.

Tyrone hiding under the table whilst Fizz got together with Phil was a bit of slapstick comedy, hilarious.

I actually thought Ken looked fit and well and younger but Rita looked thinner and older! I find the deaf one rather annoying, I don't know why. Dev is terrible, someone should tell him, but his son is a good little actor. I'm glad the annoying Alina has gone. Funny how anyone on Coronation Street can fix up a trip to anywhere at a moments notice - Romania, in this case, but Gail went off to Thailand just like that. It's strange - just like the elastic houses.

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glammananna I agree about Ken he hasn’t been in it for some months and he looked very old and drawn last night
I m afraid Mary didn’t do it for me last night she was very irritating
Has Norris died in real life or did they just want to ‘finish him off ‘ he hasn’t been in it for some time

No, I think Malcolm Hebden (Norris) is still alive and kicking, but according to the tribute shown to him on Monday night, he suffered a near death experience from a heart attack last summer, and decided it was time to retire.

He looks a bit old and frail, but still got a sense of humour and many happy memories of his acting career.

glammananna I agree about Ken he hasn’t been in it for some months and he looked very old and drawn last night
I m afraid Mary didn’t do it for me last night she was very irritating
Has Norris died in real life or did they just want to ‘finish him off ‘ he hasn’t been in it for some time

For those who might not know - there’s an hour long extra Corrie on at 8.00pm tonight !

Without question, Fiz.

She did a bit Sarnia but I had to smile at her clutching her bottle of milk outside the hospital

Tyrone gets himself in some right pickles. Alina, pregnant again, has gone back to Romania and Fizz has no feelings for him and seems smitten with her new man, Phil. Mary got on my nerves last night.

There have been some characters using that taxi over the years,I was surprised how much "Ken Barlow" has aged since I last watched the programme I know he is 80+ but he looked very unwell to me.

Alina has taken the Corrie taxi - what will Tyrone do now?

I thought Dev was dreadful but I thought Billy was equal as bad and it was all totally cringeworthy
Such a shame as others were acting so brilliantly Kelly, Abi Maureen Lipman not forgetting Roy who is a darling

Maureen Lipman is great isn't she love0c taken over from Blanche who had some brilliant one liners as well.

I watched the 'Norris' tribute last night. quite frightening at just how long ago some of the clips were! Brilliant one liner in Monday's episode from 'Nan' to Tyrone, 'You can't expect to have your tart and eat it'!

The Norris tribute was lovely. Barbara Knox in particular looked very upset at the end. Must be hard for the older actors to see other oldies either retire or die.

No sure how people in hospital are allowed visitors in Corrie? My brother has been in hospital for 3 weeks and visitors are not allowed due to Covid. Probably because it's not real (that's courtesy of my husband).

Completely agree about the silly scene involving Dev and Billy. It made me cringe. Daft idea in the first place and the acting from both men was excruciatingly bad.

I agree Lilypops Dev was excruciating to watch. His so called acting skills are minimal.

Agree Lilypops - the wonderful Norris tribute really highlighted how much better the characters & acting was back then.

As for Dev…………speechless.

I loved the Norris special programme last night, showing Corrie when it was fun , all the oldies Mavis, Derek ,Rita, then , on the next Corrie. It was Dev , acting (if you call it that). Drunk as he and the gay vicar attempted to entertain Dev, s son and his girl friend with a meal and wine, The acting from Dev was just awful I thought, No wonder the son and his girlfriend sneaked out when they got Dev and the vicar to “ close their eyes and count to 100”. Excruciatingly bad acting ,

There used to be a black and white photo of Albert Tatlock on the sideboard at Ken's house. Nice touch.

Yes and there’s a photo of Deidre at Tracey’s.

Did anyone else notice the photo of Roy Hudd (Archie Shuttleworth) on the shelf behind George and Todd?

What a nice human touch. Like the picture of Betty Turpin as was on the wall of the Rovers.

A lovely gesture to much loved cast members no longer here.

I think this is supposed to be Archie Shuttleworth's son. He's good juxtaposed with horrible Todd.

I remember Roy Hudd used to be the undertaker.