Helen Worth aka Gail platt to leave Coronation street

[Bingoman]

I haven't watch Coronation street in years but just seen this

Coronation Street star Helen Worth to leave after 50 years

Actor, who has played Gail Platt since 1974, will step down at end of year after ‘major storyline’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

How do you feel about this?

 

[Bingoman]

How do you feel about this?

havent not watched the show in years I would say it sad that she leaving because she been in the show before I was born and I stop watching the show in the 90s because I the show got stale to me at the time

 

[Orang Utan]

havent not watched the show in years I would say it sad that she leaving because she been in the show before I was born and I stop watching the show in the 90s because I the show got stale to me at the time

Why report it then?

 

[skyscraper101]

Storyline should be Martin Platt comes back from New Zealand to resume his role as a mascot rooster for Weatherfield County FC, gets involved in an altercation with Kev Webster down the Rovers and decides to skip town back to New Zealand after rekindling his romance with Gail. Although they'll probably do some trite death storyline instead.

The urban interest in Coronation Street seems to have dropped off massively these days. I used to enjoy the Corrie Last Night thread but nobody posts there anymore. My Mum still watches it so I occasionally watch when I'm there but it's a world away from its heyday. All the comedy is gone, the characters/storylines are rubbish, and everyone's house looks like it was kitted out in homebase. Tragic. They even do this really crass product placement now. People actually ordering 'Heineken 0%' as part of the script and all that shite. Terrible.

 

[Bingoman]

Why report it then?

Because it came up on my news alert

 

[Elpenor]

Why report it then?

I say I say?

 

[JimW]

They made a Chinese version called Joy Luck Street but it didn't really catch on IIRC and got dropped fairly soon. TV: Coronation St, Beijing - Lifestyle News - NZ Herald

 

[Nine Bob Note]

It's likely none of the soaps are gonna be around in a few years any way, certainly not in their current form.

 

[skyscraper101]

They made a Chinese version called Joy Luck Street but it didn't really catch on IIRC and got dropped fairly soon. TV: Coronation St, Beijing - Lifestyle News - NZ Herald

Several production companies in China were invited to submit storylines, although the concept of a soap was plainly alien to them ... literally so, as one proposed storyline involved space-travellers.

 

[Dystopiary]

She does a lot of work to support wild animals in real life.

 

[skyscraper101]

It's likely none of the soaps are gonna be around in a few years any way, certainly not in their current form.

I often thought what a total waste of money all the new set building was for Eastenders and Coronation street when they don't pull in even half the audience they used to.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I often thought what a total waste of money all the new set building was for Eastenders and Coronation street when they don't pull in even half the audience they used to.

They don't even pull in a fifth of the audience they used to, and advertising rates are in the toilet.

 

[skyscraper101]

All the best characters like Blanche, Norris and Maud have died. They went hard on trying to make it all trendy and relevant to the youth but most young people don't give AF about soaps, or linear TV in general.

 

[pbsmooth]

wise move - get out before she's typecast.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

She does a lot of work to support wild animals in real life.

Nice. Time to release Gail into the wild.

 

[redsquirrel]

All the best characters like Blanche, Norris and Maud have died. They went hard on trying to make it all trendy and relevant to the youth but most young people don't give AF about soaps, or linear TV in general.

Yeah used to love Corrie, one thing I genuinely missed when I was in Australia. But came back and it was going downhill fast. Gave up on it after a year.

 

[skyscraper101]

This would be worth watching tbf

 

[Wookey]

They even do this really crass product placement now. People actually ordering 'Heineken 0%' as part of the script and all that shite. Terrible.

They used to do this on the radio 100 years ago, they'd create a weekly housewife-friendly kitchen sink drama full of recognisable voices, to wrap around a soap advert. Or an Ovaltine advert. Today's is fun free beer.

So they called them soap operas you see. Content marketing, it's really nothing new.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Storyline should be Martin Platt comes back from New Zealand to resume his role as a mascot rooster for Weatherfield County FC, gets involved in an altercation with Kev Webster down the Rovers and decides to skip town back to New Zealand after rekindling his romance with Gail. Although they'll probably do some trite death storyline instead.

The urban interest in Coronation Street seems to have dropped off massively these days. I used to enjoy the Corrie Last Night thread but nobody posts there anymore. My Mum still watches it so I occasionally watch when I'm there but it's a world away from its heyday. All the comedy is gone, the characters/storylines are rubbish, and everyone's house looks like it was kitted out in homebase. Tragic. They even do this really crass product placement now. People actually ordering 'Heineken 0%' as part of the script and all that shite. Terrible.

Or bring back Our Brian, and see what became of him?

It could be the big comeback he was ...oh I forgot, he came a cropper in a nightclub.

Maybe a ghostly return?