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I know loads of people are finding Corrie really hard to enjoy given the constant crime/stunts/medical doom and gloom and there seems to be a non-stop cry for more human stories/day-to-day life/kitchen sink stuff, but unfortunately the reality is that ITV look at their statistics and see that their most popular shows are crime related. The constant flow of police dramas they put out and the popularity of them has turned the execs' heads and they think that's all people want (outside of the omnipresent reality shows they put out too).

@cake-emu Yeah, I think it's definitely from the very top of ITV/ITN because both Corrie and Emmerdale are suffering from the same ennui and every time I watch either on ITVX, the advert break has either Vera or, recently, the new season of Unforgotten. Every single time. There's too many indicators to say it isn't mandated from above and it's 100% the creative choices of Iain MacLeod/the EPs. Generally speaking as well, I can't remember the last properly popular ITV comedy show. TV Burp possibly? The top execs can't/won't head in the comedy direction because they use the numbers to justify the direction of its programming, and there simply isn't an ITV audience for comedy currently. It's a classic self-fulfilling prophecy.

So Rob orchestrated the hostage situation, able to manipulate Matty and the screws.

GIF 3, Ryan looking between them, is the happy version of this:

So Rob orchestrated the hostage situation, able to manipulate Matty and the screws.

So Rob orchestrated the hostage situation, able to manipulate Matty and the screws.

One thing I really hope they do (long term/continued) is little fingertip touches/holds.

Since it’s LGBT history month it’s a good time to bring this back, with a minor correction- her surname is actually Elliott, with two t’s

Part of me thinks the look from Betsy was also like a "fair play, you talked her round, impressive". Then that part of me thinks about how Betsy is and how she could see that as a challenge (like Carla is going to be a bigger influence on her mum then she realised), which makes the angsty part of my brain revel at the prospect of a power struggle between Betsy and Carla except Carla doesn't actively partake/see it as a power struggle AT ALL (because it actually isn't) and Betsy provides many of the 2025 hurdles Swarla face as she reconciles with the fact that her mum no longer only belongs to her 🧐