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Leanne and Peter's big day goes bad in Coronation Street.
IT’S great when TV gives you tales of the unexpected – a plot to run a set of chilly fingers up your spine when you were settling down for a cosy tale of everyday families.
Mind you, CORONATION STREET has been hinting like a firework display for months that Peter and Liane’s’s hard-earned love match might not last. Drink, prostitution, debt and knicker factory sex goddess Carla wanting Peter all for herself, hasn’t managed so far to shatter this odd couple love-match.
But without having to fork out for the usual Street full-blown wedding, ITV’s budget church blessing for the married couple was all drama and angst this week.
At least Peter’s son little Simon – stuck in a taxi practising his best man speech – was spared the sight of his daddy dissing Leanne, the woman he now calls “mummy”.
Leanne has been nobly fighting off the attentions of former hubby Nick Tilsley, when she’s not giving in to rampant lust.
But it didn’t stop Peter unmasking her in front of the whole church with his jailbird sis Tracy doing her famous evil smirk, a look he’s been borrowing all week to let us know he’d a dastardly plan to shatter Liane’s heart.
And the sight of her, blissfully radiant going up the aisle while Peter’s twisted expression could have bagged him a role as a twirling-tached Victorian baddie in the next corset costume drama, was about as heart-pounding as good soap storylines get.
Too heartbreaking?
Not as uncomfortable as BRITS AWARD host James Corden getting down with the giants of musicworld. No-one looked more startled than him when his matey face-smoothing of Justin Bieber’s immaculate teen skin came right back at him, Bieber smooth/slapping his chops back. And who was wincing more at the Gavin And Stacey star’s chummy fat jokes with Cee-Lo Green – Cee-Lo or us?
To be fair, this year’s effort was far from the Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood fiasco all those years ago.
But was it wise sticking Alan Carr up there to present an award and remind us just how funny the hosting could have been with our favourite chatty man?
And it was good – among stonking performances like Plan B’s – to see some more unlikely music stars get their shot in the mainstream commercial spotlight. Laura Marling winning best British female artist and Mumford & Sons bagging the top spot for their double platinum nu-folk album Sigh No More from October 2009 up against the might of Take That and BRITboy of the moment, Tinie Tempeh.
As one of the band modestly pointed out: “Almost accidentally, people find they can relate to our songs.”
But back in the arena of family folk, E4 debuted their latest US animation BOB’S BURGERS, a loveable story of Bob, wife and three kids running their own burger restaurant – when Bob is faking being stuck in the wall cavity to avoid his mother-in-law. From the same technical team as King Of The Hill, its got that series’ same quirky charm without going out-there wacky like Family Guy. Soon son Gene’s fart-smelling bedroom, Alice’s bunny-ears hat and outsider Tina with her zombie dreams, might well become a new animated must-see. How will Bob top his grill of the day special Never Been Feta (with cheese)? And will it be as stomach-churning as his mum-in-law’s Tunami tuna burger? And will the husband and wife banter top the opener’s winner, as Bob calls Linda Nag-atha Christie and the pair riff on nagging till they’re all laughing – fun for all the family.
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