CORONATION STREET

HOODIES VS GOODIES

When did youngsters become criminal masterminds? Gangs, Clayton, Kayla kidnapping Bethany. Now, Simon’s on the receiving end, when two teens grab him and shove him into a waiting car. Are they all going to bodybuilding classes? Doing online Mafia courses? Luckily, Kate comes to the rescue and drags him to safety (pictured). There’s more trouble afoot when, inside the factory, Peter and Carla fail to spot a gun pointing at them through the window. Well, you would miss it. You’d hardly be likely to say, ‘Ooh, let’s look at that interesting knicker stitching, but let’s do it from the floor in case Don Corleone’s lurking outside.’

Newly departed producer Kate Oates’s name is still on the credits, but the incoming Iain MacLeod loves his guns and kidnappings, as we know from his stint on Emmerdale. Expect the prop department to be ordering a job lot of masking tape. Weatherfield residents, don’t go to any car-boot sales: the boot won’t be full of your dead grandmother’s brica-brac. It’s more likely to contain your gran.

Henry is turning out to be a wrong ’un, but when he admits his injury is fake, will Gemma go along with it? They say love is blind. In Gemma’s case, it’s completely headless.

Talking of wrong ’uns, there are elderly handbags at dawn when Rita berates Audrey for being jealous of Maria and for choosing Lewis over Gail. All four women have form in the Bad Bloke department, so there’s nothing new there. I’ll say just one word, Rita. Tram.