Controversial Storyline for Corries 50th - Contains Spoilers

Kym Marsh has admitted that the Coronation Street cast are desperate to know what will happen during the upcoming tram crash.

As part of the ITV soap's 50th anniversary, a tram will be seen crashing on to the street, leading to the death of several characters.

In her New column, Marsh revealed that some of the show's cast know more about the plot than others.

"[Producer] Phil Collinson is keen to keep the result of the tram crash quiet so nobody finds out," she said. "Personally, I don't think it's any fun for viewers when storylines are revealed in advance.

"But, for us, it's frustrating because we want to know what happens next!"

She added: "We do gossip in the green room, and some of us know more than others, but we don't go shouting it around!"

Kym Marsh really loves to hear her own voice.

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I hope the tram crash won't be a big let-down after all the hype.

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Yes me too

I wanna see loads of deaths of major characters not minor ones and serious injuries

50 Corrie Facts

► Coronation Street began at 7pm on Friday 9th December 1960. The first episode was transmitted live.

► A young scriptwriter called Tony Warren created the series, originally titled Florizel Street. The first episode was penned within 24 hours, 13 episodes were commissioned and the face of British television was set to change forever.

► Tony Warren penned a total of 76 scripts between 1960 and 1976.

► Russell Harty once infamously commented: “There was life before Coronation Street, but it didn’t add up to much.”

► The theme tune was written by Eric Spear, who died in 1966.

► Viewers were given their first glimpse of Coronation Street in full colour when the first colour episode was transmitted on 3rd November 1969.

► A live episode was broadcast to mark the series’ 40th anniversary in December 2000 - the first time the show had been broadcast live since 1961.

► Famous faces who have walked on the Weatherfield cobbles include: Joanna Lumley; Ben Kingsley; Ian McKellen; Stephanie Beacham; Patricia Routledge; Patrick Stewart; Martin Shaw; June Whitfield; Anna Friel; Nigel Havers.

► Famous fans include: Anthony Hopkins; Michael Parkinson; Julie Walters; Cliff Richard; Victoria Wood; Cilla Black; Cheryl Cole; Snoop Dogg.

► A number of famous faces have paid visits to the set including: Diana Dors; Dustin Hoffman; Alfred Hitchcock; Howard Keel; Boy George; Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair; Queen Elizabeth II; The Duke of Edinburgh.

► Celebrities who have appeared as background artists on the show include: Cliff Richard; Mel B; Peter Schmeichel.

► William Tarmey and Elizabeth Dawn both appeared as background artists for several years before making their debuts as Jack and Vera Duckworth.

► The Rovers would serve on average 720 pints of beer a week. Including lager, it would serve around 1,440 pints each week. Since the soap started in 1961, the Rovers has served over 2 million pints of beer. Including lager, it has dished up over 3.5 million pints!

► The Rovers Return has had 13 landlords and landladies, 12 temporary managers, 51 barmaids, 4 barmen, 17 potmen and 10 cleaners.

► The 1,000th episode was transmitted on 24th August 1970.

► Roy Barraclough played three different characters during the 1960’s before first appearing as Alec Gilroy on 26th June 1972.

► After 13 years, Patricia Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) left the programme on 8th October 1973. She returned in 1976 and remained for 8 more years, appearing in 1,641 episodes.

► Mike Baldwin made his first appearance on 11th October 1976 and bowed out thirty years later on 7th April 2006 after 2,383 episodes.

► Doris Speed was awarded an MBE by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 29th November 1977.

► On August 8th 1979, the programme was taken off air as part of an ITV strike. It returned to the screen on 24th October.

► Violet Carson made her last appearance as Ena Sharples after 1,150 episodes on 4th April 1980.

► Jean Alexander made her last appearance as Hilda Ogden on 25th December 1987 - an episode watched by 26 million people. In 1988, she became the first soap opera performer to be nominated for a BAFTA award.

► As of 9th December 2010, there have been 39 births, 114 deaths and 88 weddings.

► The first death was the original resident of No.13, May Hardman, in Episode 7 on 31st December 1960.

► Out of 114 deaths, there have been fourteen murders and seven were suicide.

► The first birth was Elsie Tanner’s grandson Paul Cheveski on 12th June 1961, and the latest was Jack Dobbs on 6th September 2010.

► The first Corrie wedding was that of Jack and Annie Walker’s daughter Joan to Gordon Davies on 8th March 1961. The most recent was Roy and Hayley Cropper’s eventful ceremony on 30th August 2010.

► Gail McIntyre is the most-married character, having walked down the aisle five times.

► On 4th August 1962, Ken Barlow - today the show’s sole-surviving original character - married for the first time, having sold his scooter to fund the wedding. Valerie Tatlock became bride number one when she walked up the aisle at St Mary’s.

► Five couples have married each other twice: Brian & Gail Tilsley; Jim & Liz McDonald; Kevin & Sally Webster; Steve & Karen McDonald; Ken & Deirdre Barlow.

► The most enduring marriage on the Street was that of Jack and Vera Duckworth, who celebrated their golden wedding anniversary just months before Vera’s death in January 2008.

► The shortest marriage was that of Mike Baldwin and Jackie Ingram, whose union lasted only seven days in 1991.

► On average Betty serves up 12 Hot Pots a day (84 a week) to hungry customers at the Rovers. Yearly she serves up over 4,300 and since the show started in 1961 over 200,000 hot pots have been passed over the bar to ravenous punters!

► Ken Barlow has been involved with 25 women, including his three wives, over the last fifty years.

► Kenneth Cope holds the record for the cast member with the longest time elapsed between appearances. There was a 42-year gap in his stint as Jed Stone between 1966 and 2008.

► Ben Price is third actor to portray Nick Tilsley, following Adam Rickitt (1997-2004) and Warren Jackson (1981-1996).

► Peter Barlow is the character to have been played by the most actors. Chris Gascoyne (2000-present) is the seventh incarnation, following David Lonsdale (1986); Joseph McKenna (1977-1978); Linus Roache (1973-1975); Christopher Dormer (1970-1971); Mark Duncan (1970-1971); John Heanneau (1965-1969).

► There have been only two episodes broadcast featuring only two characters. In January 2000, Curly and Raquel Watts were reunited in a Millennium special. In 2007, Tracy Barlow confessed to murder to her mother Deirdre in a tense two-hander.

► The series originally aired twice a week. A third weekly episode was introduced in 1989, and a fourth in 1996. Coronation Street has broadcast five times a week since 2002.

► The production team has travelled abroad to film at foreign locations on seven occasions: Majorca (1974); Torremolinos (1987); Normandy (1994); Amsterdam (1998); Paris (2000 and 2006); Malta (2007).

► There have been five spin-off video/DVD releases: The Feature Length QE2 Special (1995); Viva Las Vegas (1997); Out of Africa (2008); Romanian Holiday (2009); A Knight’s Tale (2010). A six-part series (‘After Hours’) set in Brighton, featuring the returns of Bet Gilroy and Reg Holdsworth, aired in November 1999.

► It fell to Ken Barlow to utter the show’s first expletive. His use of the word ‘bloody’ in 1961 brought 83 complaints.

► Famous directors who cut their teeth on Coronation Street include: Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter); Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough, The Chronicles of Narnia); Charles Sturridge (Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust). Charles also recently directed The Road To Coronation Street which is the story of the show’s conception by Tony Warren.

► Peter Whalley is the series’ longest-serving writer, and has been on the team since 1979, penning more than 540 episodes.

► Notable writers who have contributed scripts over the years include: Kay Mellor (Band of Gold, Fat Friends); Paul Abbott (Shameless, Clocking Off); Sally Wainwright (At Home with the Braithwaites, Unforgiven); Lucy Gannon (Soldier Soldier, Bramwell); Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, The Street).

► The current exterior Street set was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh on 5th May 1982.

► HRH The Prince of Wales made a pre-recorded cameo appearance in the 40th anniversary live episode on 8th December 2000.

► More than 5,000 characters have appeared in Coronation Street.

► The original title sequence was filmed in Archie Street, Salford, which was demolished in 1971.

► There are more than 11,000 cobbles on Coronation Street - a rough estimate is 11,101!

Coronation Street's Malcolm Hebden has teased that viewers can expect big changes in the aftermath of the upcoming tram crash.

Hebden, who plays shop owner Norris Cole in the ITV soap, told Digital Spy that The Kabin will be one of the premises most affected when the tram is crashes onto the street in December's dramatic 50th anniversary plot.

"Yes, you can [expect changes]," he admitted. "That's all I can say on that."

He added: "The Kabin will look very different after this!"

Hebden also praised the soap's efforts to keep details of the plot secret.

"I think it's great!" he said. "They're spending a fortune on it. It's all CGI stuff and top people from Doctor Who really, which our new producer [Phil Collinson] did produce with David Tennant.

He continued: "So he is able to call on all those resources, so it should look spectacular, which it's got to be in the 50th year!"

Aerial shots of the Corrie set published online today showed The Kabin partially destroyed and Dev and Sunita Alahan's corner shop completely demolished.

Hebden will also appear in spin-off DVD A Knight's Tale - released November 1 -which sees Kevin Kennedy and Ken Morley reprise their roles as Curly Watts and Reg Holdsworth respectively.

Did Malcolm get permission to speak about the show. I thought Kym was head speaker.

Miauwwww,, lol, but you are right, Ms Marsh does like to express her opinions :D

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Ltm Marsh loves to hear herself speak. She really thinks she is the star of the show when in fact she is a crap actress

I'm surprised she hasn't suggested releasing a cd to mark the 50th celebrations.

You might have just given her the idea :lol:

Life on Coronation Street will change forever later this year when a massive explosion rocks The Joinery bar and sends a tram crashing off the viaduct.

In spectacular scenes to mark the soap's 50th anniversary, the dramatic event will cause devastation and heartbreak as the show bids goodbye to some much-loved characters.

Details of who will die and who will suffer injuries are being kept closely under wraps until transmission, as the programme's producers aim to deliver a birthday week full of secrets and surprises.

However, Corrie's cast and crew have now begun filming the milestone episodes - which are to be the most expensive ever made by ITV. Stunt doubles, pyrotechnics specialists, special effects experts and computer-generated imagery are all being used to create what is expected to be the most impressive stunt in the drama's history.

Appearing below, the first behind-the-scenes photos released from filming show the moments preceding and immediately after the explosion - just moments before the tram comes crashing down. One features Jane Danson (Leanne Battersby) and Bill Roache's (Ken Barlow) stunt doubles as they prepare to be thrown to the ground for the explosion scene.

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I wonder why The Joinery explodes? Poor Nick and Leanne, their new business isn't going to last very long.

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I wonder why The Joinery explodes? Poor Nick and Leanne, their new business isn't going to last very long.

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The tram crash is responsible for a lot of properties in Coronation Street to get destroyed :(

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The tram crash is responsible for a lot of properties in Coronation Street to get destroyed :(

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It's just that the above makes it sound like an explosion at the Joinery causes the tram crash, not the other way around.

May Owen is a cowboy builder and it is down to him not doing a proper job that something goes wrong

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May Owen is a cowboy builder and it is down to him not doing a proper job that something goes wrong

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That's a definite possibility.

Its hard to believe that something connected with the Joinery would cause a Tram Crash

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Life on Coronation Street will change forever later this year when a massive explosion rocks The Joinery bar and sends a tram crashing off the viaduct.

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I'm only thinking that because of what it says in the above post.

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I'm only thinking that because of what it says in the above post.

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True but its hard to believe that some shoddy building work is the cause of the tram crash. Personally i think it might be a gas explosion in the Joinery which causes the explosion and then with the Tram running directly overhead it becomes derailed.

That's a likely scenario, yes.

This is the first behind-the-scenes picture showing the preparation for Coronation Street's dramatic tram crash episodes.

The newly-released shot gives a glimpse of the replica tram in position on the street ahead of the aftermath of the disaster being filmed this week.

As revealed yesterday, a massive explosion at The Joinery bar causes the tram to drop from the viaduct, resulting in devastation and destruction on the street below.

The new picture shows how damage will be caused to Dev and Sunita Alahan's Corner Shop, as the front of the tram crashes into the business. Meanwhile, the second carriage swings round into Norris Cole's general store, The Kabin.

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Crew members, special effects experts and crane operators were responsible for the difficult task of getting the tram into position ahead of filming.

Meanwhile, the replica itself was designed and built over a period of several months in conjunction with Manchester tram operators GMPTE, who have been supporting the storyline.

The explosion scenes which lead up to the tram crash have already been filmed by cast and crew, with the assistance of stunt doubles, pyrotechnics experts and a special effects team who have previously worked on Doctor Who and Hollywood movies.

Details of who will die and who will suffer injuries in the forthcoming tragedy are being kept closely under wraps until transmission.

Coronation Street's series producer Phil Collinson commented: "All last week we filmed the exciting and explosive moments that lead to the tram crashing from the viaduct. The early scenes are wonderful and everyone is pulling together through the night to bring the brilliant scripts to life.

"Now with the tram in situ, it is time to start filming the dramatic scenes that explore the immediate aftermath of this terrible accident. Weatherfield will definitely never be the same again!"

The Coronation Street tram crash will air in December to mark the soap's 50th anniversary.

I'm getting more and more excited about seeing the crash and the aftermath.

Is that where The Joinery is supposed to be located

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Yes, The Joinery is underneath the archway.

Coronation Street star Patti Clare has revealed that the soap's producers have come up with a "very clever" way to keep their 50th anniversary storylines under wraps.

The actress, who plays eccentric Mary Taylor on the ITV1 show, claimed that cast members are currently unaware of what the writers have in store for any character besides their own.

Speaking on Lorraine about plots which will air in December, Clare explained: "We don't know! We've only been sent our scenes - we're not even sent the whole episode. So nobody knows!"

She added: "It's very clever - oh, it's very clever!"

Meanwhile, Clare's co-star Malcolm Hebden (Norris Cole) - who was also interviewed - reacted in surprise when programme host Lorraine Kelly showed him a newly-released picture illustrating how The Kabin is damaged in the tram crash storyline.

Hebden exclaimed: "That's my shop! I've not seen that before!"

Coronation Street's 50th anniversary week airs in December.

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Clare explained: "We don't know! We've only been sent our scenes - we're not even sent the whole episode. So nobody knows!"

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I take it in that case that nobody says anything like, "Poor Norris (or whoever) he looks like a goner!"

Coronation Street producer Phil Collinson has reiterated his determination to prevent details of the 50th anniversary plot being leaked.

Collinson has reportedly increased security in order to stop details surrounding the explosion and subsequent tram crash being spoiled for viewers.

"I want people to settle down in front of their telly on December 6 and let us tell them a story they haven't heard told in advance via the media, told in a spectacular yet human way," he told the Yorkshire Post. "I hate leaks, and although I've told you a few things to create excitement in advance, there will be utter secrecy from now on because I think the drip, drip of leaks to the press just cheats the viewer.

"My heart sinks when I open a paper and see the stories."

He confirmed that members of the cast will only receive their own character's lines and will be kept in the dark about other storylines.

"Each cast member will have a script that only shows their lines, on paper watermarked with their name," he said. "They will not see a whole script or be told about other storylines."

He added: "I've really put my foot down. I hate to know what's coming when I'm watching some other show, and our viewers feel the same."

The ITV soap recently released the first set pictures as it filmed the explosion at The Joinery which will lead to a tram crashing off the viaduct on to the Street.

Collinson teased: "You will see a Coronation Street like you've never seen before and it will never be the same again."

Mmmm I think it will be diifficult to keep it completely secret. Obviously the people who get killed off will know as well as the people who are interacting with them.

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Mmmm I think it will be diifficult to keep it completely secret. Obviously the people who get killed off will know as well as the people who are interacting with them.

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Likewise the people who are not getting killed off will already have been filming future episodes.

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Likewise the people who are not getting killed off will already have been filming future episodes.

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And all those who attend the funerals and those taken away by Archie Shuttleworth and those who attend the wake in T'Rovers

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And all those who attend the funerals and those taken away by Archie Shuttleworth and those who attend the wake in T'Rovers

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That's a good idea. I'll ask my mate Roy if he knows who he's burying...

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THIS aerial shot proves producers are shunning camera tricks and trashing the famed Coronation Street set for real.
One end of the Street has been devastated for tram crash scenes being filmed for the soap's 50th anniversary.
Two tram carriages lie embedded in Dev's corner shop and Rita's Kabin.
Three characters will die, with others hurt.
The £1million stunt is said to be the most expensive in soap history.

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Coronation Street star Alison King has revealed her nerves over featuring in the upcoming live episode.

King, who plays Carla Connor in the ITV soap, told Digital Spy that she is "wearing a nappy" because of the broadcast which will be part of a week celebrating the show's 50th anniversary.

"I know that I'm in it," she said. "So I'm wearing a nappy right now!"

King added that she is trying not to "think too much about" the episode which will focus on the aftermath of a dramatic tram crash.

OMG just how many more of the cast are going to tell DS that they are nervous for the live episode.

Don't actors do live performances in theatres any more?

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I think some of these folk just like to hear themselves speak. Still it fills up space on DS

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I am wrong as Keith has signed a new contract to stay on the show longer

I think it will be Molly who dies

Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan has revealed that she is thrilled with what the soap's bosses have in store for the 50th anniversary celebrations.

The ITV1 show will reach its milestone in December - and producers have already confirmed plans for a dramatic tram crash and a special live episode.

Speaking to Inside Soap's Coronation Street Special, Flanagan confirmed that she has high hopes for the much-anticipated tram accident, which looks likely to change life in Weatherfield forever.

The actress - who plays feisty Rosie Webster - commented: "I'm really excited - the whole cast is. It's such an amazing thing to be part of - it'll be legendary. I feel very proud to be one of the cast."

Asked how she would celebrate the anniversary if she were in charge, Flanagan replied: "Our new producer Phil Collinson is really great, so I don't think there's anything he's missed. He's got the whole feel just right. He's also given me a storyline involving Rosie and Jason which I really like."

The 20-year-old recently praised her character's sexy scenes, describing them as "all fun".

Malcolm Hebden has admitted that he is too scared to ask whether his Coronation Street character Norris Cole will be killed off in the soap's forthcoming tram crash.

The show's new producer Phil Collinson announced back in July that some much-loved Weatherfield residents will lose their lives when disaster strikes on the cobbles this December.

Speaking to The Mirror, Hebden revealed that the programme's cast have now been offered the chance to discover whether they will be written out, but he has so far resisted the urge to ask about Norris's future.

Hebden explained: "The producer is being very cagey. You've got to go to him and ask him if you are going and he'll tell you - but I haven't been. I daren't go!

"Barbara Knox, who plays Rita, said to me the other day, 'You know this is the last time we'll film in The Kabin', because we were about to film the scenes where the shop was crushed by the tram. But whether Norris goes with it, I don't know.

"Of course, you can only be in the show when you are providing what is required, but I'd be terrified to leave. I don't know what I'd do with my time, because work has been everything. Work is my hobby and I don't do holidays."


Lets hope Norris isnt killed off. He is a classic and his comedy lines fantastic