What Are Coronation Street's 50th Anniversery Plans?

The pieces are slowly coming together for Coronations Streets big 50th birthday celebration. In a recent interview with digital spy executive producer Phil Collinson revealed that there is still a lot of discussion surrounding what will take place during the 50th b-day event.

One hot subject is whether or not the soap will go LIVE for this special day, the answer "maybe"

Have you ruled out a live episode?

"Nope. We've not ruled it in either, though. Something like that takes an enormous amount of planning. We're still talking about it but I'm not particularly an advocate of doing it. We did it ten years ago and obviously EastEnders did it this year… if we were to do one, we'd need to find a way of making it radically different from any that have gone before."

Now news has come out that several characters will in fact be killed off as Coronation Street deals with its biggest event yet, a Tram Disaster.

"We'll be losing some well-known, well-loved characters," he said.

Mr Collinson said the "big, big story" and its fallout would be played out over a week in December.

"Hopefully we'll be keeping under wraps who exactly will be going. We'll be doing everything we can to make sure we keep that secret until it transmits."

So are you looking forward to what Corrie has in store for the big 5-0?