ITV 60th to air a live Corrie

[Perdita]

I havent seen trailer - but if highlights not
dramatic - not a lot of hope for the rest

This is the trailer

https://youtu.be/qosoq1JP82c

[Kim]

I think the trailer for it is rubbish!

Do you mean the highly panto one with the Platts running away from Callum or is there another one that I've missed?

[alan45]

Coronation Street stars Tina O'Brien and Sean Ward will have no room for nerves next week, as they've been asked to launch the show's dramatic live episode.

The pair's characters Sarah Platt and Callum Logan will share the opening moments of the special hour-long broadcast, which has been scheduled in to help celebrate 60 years of ITV.

Brand new images released by the soap see Sarah being confronted in the Platts' living room by her evil ex-lover, who is piling pressure on her family.


© ITV
Callum visits Sarah at the Platt house

This is the final scene from next Monday's double bill (September 21) and the action in the live episode will pick up at exactly this point on the Wednesday.

Menacing Callum pays his visit to Sarah after issuing the Platts with a final demand for £20,000, warning that he will hurt them badly if they don't cough up the cash.

Little is known about what happens in the live episode itself, but producers have teased that Callum will close in on the terrified Platts and leave them with nowhere else to run.


© ITV

Coronation Street airs its hour-long live episode on Wednesday, September 23 at 7.30pm on ITV.

[Dazzle]

I have allowed myself an hopelessy
optimistic moment in which I thought
that there might be that "once in blue
moon" soap moment when we got
a real ( unpublicised) shock - a loved
character dies or something totally
unexpected happens!

My lightheadedness soon passed off!!

Phew...I'm glad to hear it! I was worried about you for a minute there!

[Dazzle]

How many more clues are the Corrie writers going to give us that Callum will die on Wednesday? There's Gail's manhole; everybody knowing Callum's on the run from both Denton and the police; he told Gemma he wouldn't see her again; he's taken his passport; David's at last decided to take action; Tony and Todd have decided to get to him before Jason does. Have I missed anything?

I really, really hope this is all a clever double bluff because Callum's death on Wednesday is now waaaay too predictable. It'll almost certainly be hugely anti-climactic if it happens - unless there's lots of twists and turns, and the writing and acting are of the highest standards.

Anyone feeling excited? I'm looking forward to it but when I compare how I feel to the excitement of EE's recent live episode, there's no comparison at all.

[tammyy2j]

Viewers of Coronation Street's highly-anticipated live episode will be able to go behind the scenes as it is happening through an online stream.

The hour-long live episode, celebrating 60 years of ITV, will be accompanied by a second screen experience, whereby for the first time in the show's 55 year history the audience have the chance to watch what is going on behind the cameras as the episode goes out live.

Eleven hidden cameras have been rigged in and around the Manchester based set, which will allow viewers to see the cast and crew work during the episode which will air at 7.30pm on Wednesday.

The stream, hosted by Stephen Mulhern, will broadcast live, so while viewers watch the action unfold on ITV, they will also be able to watch it being made simultaneously on Facebook and itv.com via their laptop, mobile or tablet.

Soap bosses are allowing the audience to be a part of the action and see their choices reflected on screen.

One viewer will get their tweet or Facebook message written on the empty blackboard in the Rovers by the end of the episode, and viewers can choose the music at Lloyd Mullaney and Andrea Beckett's leaving party by playing along in an interactive poll on Facebook and Twitter.

The episode will feature the culmination of Callum's reign of terror over the Platt family, along with Lloyd and Andrea's leaving party in the Rovers, Roy Cropper and Cathy Matthews getting closer and Tim Metcalfe finding out about Sally Webster's secret kiss with her ex Kevin.

[Dazzle]

Viewers of Coronation Street's highly-anticipated live episode will be able to go behind the scenes as it is happening through an online stream.

I think it'd be quite interesting to watch the behind the scenes footage, but not at the same time as the episode itself! Talk about ruining the tension.


Meanwhile, in other live episode news, Jack P Shepherd apparently called the live episode "grim" today on Good Morning Britain, and Paula Lane has said: "It's really dark. I don't think Corrie has ever had anything this dark." (Read more here.)

Make of that what you will Corrie fans...

[Dazzle]

Actress playing Rita gone off sick...apparently pressure of live episode.

Apparently, Barbara Knox is fine and still poised to appear in the live episode according to one of Corrie's producers, Ella Kelly, this afternoon.

Kelly said fans could expect "lots of firsts" from Wednesday's live show and that they were being "a little bit daring". She also promised it would be "classic Corrie".

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34328588

(I was going to reply to swmc66's comment on its original thread (Corrie Current Episode Discussion) but decided it would be better to put it in this thread.)

[lizann]

max or todd killing callum

[maidmarian]

max or todd killing callum

it would be shocking and a first for Corrie if
a child ( Max) committed murder! But done
at a same time as the Bobby saga rumbles
on in EE- its a bit like copying.Personally
I hope not - as I like Max and hes proved
the point that some children can overcome
(so.far) a poor start in life.!

If it is Todd -theres been so many
murders over the years - and Todds
never been "nice" - even in the early
days-so it would be unpleasant but not
shocking!

Despite all the hype / flagging up etc Im
still.not 100% certain(but nearly)
that its Callum.- who will be murdered
-but not long to go now!!