Soapland’s would-be entrepreneurs are forever seeking to establish businesses or take over others. EastEnders’ Peter has had no choice but to take on Beale Enterprises since the disappearance of Ian, and he’s turning out to be not so much a chip off the old block as a veritable Everest of chippings.
When Ian approached any new venture, it was in the belief that it could be ‘a right little gold mine’, but then that’s what every potential owner thinks. Sharon thought the gym was going to be a big earner, but so far there are more clipboards than members.
In Corrie, Natasha is buying Audrey’s salon, even though the place is less of a gold mine than a blue-rinse rivulet. Debbie is so busy playing Boadicea at the Bistro that she hasn’t yet noticed the cobwebs on the till; and as for the garage, Kevin and Tyrone have been working on one MOT for five years.
At least Emmerdale has a hugely successful businesswoman in Kim, and maybe Al buying into The Woolpack will inject new life into the place. But they should beware the ‘sleeping partner’ bit; Al sleeps around more than is good for any business.
Abi and Corey (pictured) find themselves trapped in a Victorian sewer with only a gun and gushing water between them in Coronation Street
CORONATION STREET: GOING UNDERGROUND
This is a week when you’ll be wishing you were sitting in the Rovers nursing a sweet sherry and a hotpot. The chaos that Harvey’s prison escape causes is far reaching – Dev’s crash, Harvey gagging Leanne (Nick’s probably thinking if only I’d thought of that), the sinkhole... well, sinking; and, to top it all, Abi and Corey trapped in a Victorian sewer with only a gun and gushing water between them.
What could possibly go wrong? Apart from the fact that it does, of course. Why would Jenny be stunned when, while all this is happening, Carla tells her that Johnny’s moving to Bali? Even Walford is paradise compared to this.
Someone dies, but who? There are so many contenders – Aadi, trapped in the car wreckage; the Bonnie and Clyde of the sewers, Abi and Corey?
And what about Johnny, who enters the sinkhole to rescue Jenny, who has somehow managed to find
