The Driscoll family are on the verge of complete collapse in Coronation Street next week.
Ben (Aaron McCusker) is utterly rocked when he presses mum Maggie (Pauline McLynn) for clarity on her recent behaviour, but is wholly unprepared for the revelation she drops. Declaring he wants nothing more to do with her, can things ever be mended between mother and son?
Sam Blakeman’s (Jude Riordan) psychological torture at the hands of Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon) has left him deeply wounded, and despite the support of dad Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) and step-mums Leanne and Toyah Battersby (Jane Danson and Georgia Taylor), he’s convinced that Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) is still terrorising him. Clearly scarred by his experiences with Megan, just how bad is the damage she’s inflicted on Sam?
Debbie Webster (Sue Devaney) is finally released, and her reappearance on the street is uncharacteristically celebrated by her son Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard). Though peace is seemingly brokered between Carl and Debbie’s husband, Ronnie Bailey (Vinta Morgan), does Carl truly have his ailing mum’s best interest at heart?
Elsewhere, desperate to save Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce) from Theo Silverton’s (James Cartwright) abuse, Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien) summons Danielle Silverton (Natalie Anderson), but will she just make everything worse?
With an extra offering of Weatherfield action next week, we’ve got plenty to dive into. Let’s get to it, shall we?
Sunday, April 5
As Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell) celebrates Debbie’s release, his joy turns to fear when Ronnie calls him, panicked that she’s gone missing. Carl finds her on the swings and is evidently overjoyed to see that she’s been set free.
The tension is palpable at The Rover’s with Maggie facing the fury of both Ben and Will. As Ben begins to suffer a dizzy spell, desperate Maggie tries to call an ambulance, but he demands the truth, leading her to reveal that he was the result of a one night stand: Alan isn’t his dad. While she stops short of revealing that Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson) is his birth father, her reaction to Ollie (Raphael Akuwudike) and Amy (Elle Mulvaney) being left alone at No.1 betrays her.
As Leanne and Toyah come to blows over Sam’s counselling, he receives an apology from Will, though this does little to settle him.
Monday, April 6
