I love Coronation Street. It’s the one soap opera I follow. Back in my well and truly misspent youth the day I followed a number of soaps and I’d often spend hours with my mum watching a whole host of shows. In other words, I was too busy monitoring the lives of other fictitious characters, instead of living my own!
But I digress. I love Coronation Street. Set in Manchester, England it’s full of wit, charm, fantastically written stories and incredibly well acted characters. A few years back my mum bought a Corrie mug as a present for a fellow Corrie fan in Canada. I wanted one too. I know, what a child. I actually did adopt a whiney voice… It paid off. My mum presented me with one at Christmas time. Here it is.
Perhaps not the characters I would have chosen to put on my mug, but hey!
My question today is, when has a soap become too big a part in your life?
I wondered about this when I was at my previous fitting for my wedding dress (six and a bit weeks, people. Scary or what?!). The dressmaker booked my bridesmaids in for their final fitting a few weeks from now. Friday, 7.30pm. As she waited for me to respond, I could only think to say, “I’d better remember to tape Corrie.” Lol. There’s no answer to that, eh?
What TV show would cause you to rearrange your social calendar?
Ms Katykins 
January 24th, 2013 at 23:16
I used to LOVE Days of our Lives when I was a kid, lol. I can’t think of any show I’d fit my schedule around these days though…I don’t even have cable, I watch everything online.
January 25th, 2013 at 11:14
I’ve never watched that, only know of it through FRIENDS references! Ha!
I spent two years not watching telly, just DVDs, but when I moved back home, what can I say? It’s just too easy a (bad) habit to get back into! 
January 25th, 2013 at 00:04
I haven’t been addicted since I was a kid. The show was an evening soap called, Dallas. I haven’t had or watched TV for years. We watch movies on Netflix. And we have watched Downton Abbey on Netflix. Now that our son is 9, we tend to watch sporting events in streaming mode on an iMac more than anything else. And our home team, the 49ers are in the Superbowl this year. So you can rest assured that we will arrange our social calendar around the Super Bowl.
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January 25th, 2013 at 11:35
Lol, that’s great! My friend’s boyfriend is a big fan of American football and arranges everything around that. Because he’s watching from the UK, he needs to do so via the computer and at all sorts of random, antisocial hours!
I think it’s nice to have something that you all enjoy engaging in together. I know ‘Dallas’, that was a big hit over here, along with ‘Dynasty’, and the one I watched ‘Knots Landing’. I used to love that! Do you know they’ve started remaking ‘Dallas’?! Wow, eh?
January 25th, 2013 at 18:37
Where, oh where, will they ever find a replacement for JR?
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January 27th, 2013 at 12:40
It’s very sad actually, isn’t it? We were watching a documentary about the Royal Variety Performance (it’s this annual thing in the UK) and he was guesting on it a long time ago. He was meant to sing a song and he forgot the words… his mum ended up saving his bacon. You should youtube it, it was pretty funny!
January 27th, 2013 at 19:06
LOL It’s a hoot! Thanks for the tip. Mary Martin could sing much better than her son.
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January 27th, 2013 at 20:54
You’re welcome!
He was pretty drunk, that adds to the humour levels! 
January 25th, 2013 at 01:26
We record most everything we watch so we can fast forward through the commercials.
I don’t think there’s any program that would force me to change my plans.
January 25th, 2013 at 11:36
That’s the best reason to record, I can’t stand adverts!
I have all of your Megan serial to catch up on, by the way! Really looking forward to reading it! From Part 1 – Part 8!
January 25th, 2013 at 06:40
I remember being stuck in a hotel room in London one rainy Sunday and they played like five episodes on Coronation Street. I didn’t even know any of the characters, but I was hooked.
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And I recently got hooked on Gossip Girl, like nobody’s business (I love Chuck Bass) How weird is that?!
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Wedding dress fittings… how exciting!
January 25th, 2013 at 11:38
Good stuff, Maggie! Keep watching Corrie if you ever manage to! I LOVE it so, so much! Even Mister T, who claims to hate it, will come in (forced to watch it), sit down, and laugh because something is genuinely amusing – for the right reasons! Lol!
Wedding dress fittings are just scary… my measurements are now moving in the wrong direction! LOL!
January 25th, 2013 at 12:15
I’m sure you’ll be a beautiful bride
January 27th, 2013 at 12:45
That’s very sweet, thank you. I’m not so sure, but my groom is going to be incredibly handsome so he can be the eye-candy!
January 27th, 2013 at 14:59
Lucky you
January 25th, 2013 at 08:11
Strictly Come Dancing, definitely. I used to do ballroom dancing at university, so I love all the sequins and fake tan and amazing frocks!
January 25th, 2013 at 11:39
Lol! Wow, that sounds like an interesting opportunity for a Friday Photo post!
I haven’t ever followed Strictly (seen a few episodes here and there), but it certainly seems to have a HUGE following! 
January 25th, 2013 at 18:33
I really never did get hooked on any soaps, unlike a couple of my sisters and some of the teachers at work, years ago. The only one that I liked at all was “Dark Shadows,” but soaps are too slow for me; the long pauses drive me crazy.
January 27th, 2013 at 15:25
Wow – was it good? I went to see the Johnny Depp film last year and had a good chuckle at it. The series appears to be a cult classic!
January 25th, 2013 at 20:23
It’s been a lot of years since I watched soap operas, but I used to block off a couple of hours every day for them. I never watch daytime television anymore, but there are evening shows I always tape and never miss. Mad Man is a guilty pleasure, and I can’t wait for it to start up again.
January 27th, 2013 at 12:37
It’s so easy to get swept up in the drama of soaps – too easy to get addicted! I am intrigued by ‘Mad Men’. Haven’t seen it but have heard a lot of great things about it – do you think I should watch it?
January 31st, 2013 at 16:46
I’m enamored with it because I love the whole 50′s/60′s vibe – smoking and drinking in the offices. Things were sooo un-PC then, and I get such a kick out of it. Plus, Jon Hamm makes it easy for me to tune in. I think if you watch the first show or two, you’ll know right away if you like it or not. It’s definitely my guilty pleasure.
February 9th, 2013 at 11:33
That’s it, I am definitely jumping on the band wagon – it sounds fab!
January 30th, 2013 at 18:58
I used to watch a lot of soaps and other shows and I hated missing them. Back in the VCR days, my family and I would tape a lot of stuff. But for the last few years, I refuse to become addicted like that again. I have favorite shows, but if I miss them, I’m ok with it. Maybe not happy, but ok
And for the past year, I’ve enjoyed blogging so much more 
February 9th, 2013 at 11:34
Blogging is great isn’t it?
It’s a nice way to interact with new people. I love Coronation Street, I just can’t help myself! 