Executive Producer Iain MacLeod has revealed that one of the storylines pitched for the 60th anniversary included a global pandemic started by Tyrone's pigeons... but that they had deemed it "too far-fetched". Speaking ahead of the ITV soap's 60th anniversary, Iain told the Mirror Online and other news outlets as he responded to how the pandemic had changed their filming for the big week. "And the consensus around the writing ring was, 'No, it's just too far-fetched, no one's going to buy that.' "But in terms of the stories we were telling, the stories we are telling, they're fairly much the same thing." *Coronation Street's 60th anniversary week begins airing Monday 7th December on ITV

Source: Daily Mirror November 28, 2020 00:01 UTC