Word On The Street

Corrie has been pretty poor this year, the ridiculous Jason and Sarah wedding, the awful Adam Baldwin and his even more awful haircut, Dev and his bratty daughter etc. Hardly vintage stuff. But these last few weeks have gone some way in re-addressing the balance and it's now worth watching again thanks to several entertaining if unspectacular storylines.

I don't think anyone was excited about Kym Marsh's character, Michelle, coming back but since she started pulling pints in the Rovers, she's become a welcome addition and her bitch-fests with Liz have been very funny, as have the spats between her brother Liam, the most Manc person ever, and Danny Baldwin.

The whole "does Jamie love Sean storyline" is totally ridiculous (even Jack Duckworth would be more preferable than the walking cliched wet lettuce) but it does at least give more screentime to the excellent Jenny Platt as the confused and desperate Violet.

And tonight, we'll hopefully get to see the brilliantly slimy Charlie get his come-uppance when he finds out his former doormat Shelley is pregnant with his baby. And his equally hideous girlfriend Tracy knows.

And in the next few weeks, there's a death before a wedding, a teenage couple runaway and the devil-child himself, David Platt continues to be as satanic as possible. Even the worst episode of Corrie is usually better than the best the hopeless Eastenders can offer, which makes the latter's triumph at this week's Inside Soap Awards even more laughable.