Coronation Street: 23 February 2009

Ken has been acting suspiciously for a few weeks now, and this includes taking poor little-legs Eccles out for five hour walks, but it has gone unnoticed until he made the mistake of buying wine in the corner shop. Blanche is worried he might be taking up novel writing again, because we all know the effect that had on him last time (for those who haven't kept up with the action, he became an alcoholic in the course of a week) but we the viewers know Stephanie Beecham of the Barge is his latest distraction. Will he or won't he sail away with her to Manchester? My guess is he'll stay in Wetherfield and have one more thwarted ambition to add to his list. Even though Stephanie makes his favourite leek and potato soup and Deirdre just opens a can, he is stuck in Coronation Street forever.