ITV’s long-awaited soap crossover Corriedale is a groundbreaking clash of the titans where the residents of Coronation Street and Emmerdale collide in a devastating carcrash in the dead of night.
Written by Owen Lloyd Fox and directed by Duncan Foster, the stand-alone hour long features the cream of the crop from both soaps including Emmerdale’s Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell), Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) and Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins), with Weatherfield icons such as David Platt (Jack P Shepherd), Debbie Webster (Sue Devaney), Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce), Carla Connor (Alison King) and Ken Barlow (William Roache) joining the drama from the Cobbles.
Now there’s a way for fans to get involved in this once-in-a-lifetime soap extravaganza by voting for best the best trans-soap pairing that Corriedale has to offer. ITV soap boss Iain MacLeod explains how…
‘Owen (Lloyd Fox), because we haven’t made him do enough work at this point, very kindly agreed when I suggested we would write, based on a long list of viewer suggestions from social media discussions, we’d choose four pairings that we like the sound of and that the viewers like the sound of’.
‘Each pairing being one character from each show, and we’d write a scene and shoot a scene of all of those four pairings, and then starting in January, there’ll be an online poll, which is free of charge, so it’s just a bit of fun, and for me, quite a lot of stress.
‘It’s just a bit of fun, and you can vote for which of these four pairings you’d like to see in the finished episode. Voting closes 15 minutes before transmission. I will be in the transmission suite on the night going: hopefully that’s the right one. And I’m already feeling a little sweaty about that!’
Full list of Corriedale cast members and characters
Coronation Street
- Sally Carman-Duttine as Abi Webster
- Tanisha Gorey as Asha Alahan
- Amy Cudden as Becky Swain
- Sydney Martin as Betsy Swain
- Daniel Brocklebank as Billy Mayhew
- Jonathan Howard as Carl Webster
- Alison King as Carla Connor
- Claire Sweeney as Cassie Plummer
- Jack P Shepherd as David Platt
- Sue Devaney as Debbie Webster
- Jason Callender as James Bailey
- Olivia Frances-Brown as Jodie
- William Roache as Ken Barlow
- Michael Le Vell as Kevin Webster
- Jacob Roberts as Kit Green
- Vicky Myers as Lisa Swain
- Vinta Morgan as Ronnie Bailey
- Tina O’Brien as Sarah Platt
- Julia Goulding as Shona Platt
- Simon Gregson as Steve McDonald
- Harriet Bibby as Summer Spellman
- James Cartwright as Theo Silverton
- Joe Duttine as Tim Metcalfe
- Gareth Pierce as Todd Grimshaw
- Kate Ford as Tracy Barlow
Emmerdale
- Danny Miller as Aaron Dingle
- Jeff Hordley as Cain Dingle
- Emma Atkins as Charity Dingle
- Lucy Pargeter as Chas Dingle
- Christopher Chittell as Eric Pollard
- Joe-Warren Plant as Jacob Gallagher
- Christopher Bisson as Jai Sharma
- Ned Porteous as Joe Tate
- Oliver Farnworth as John Sugden
- Jonny McPherson as Liam Cavanagh
- Lawrence Robb as Mackenzie Boyd
- Natalie J Robb as Moira Dingle
- Joe Absolom as Ray Walters
- Ryan Hawley as Robert Sugden
- Katie Hill as Sarah Sugden
- Isabel Hodgins as Victoria Sugden
These pairings include Charity and Carla, both headstrong entrepreneurs with flexible morals and an eye for the ladies – or in Charity’s case, most things with a pulse.
Charity finds herself in a car on that fateful dark road because she agreed to carry Sarah Sugden’s (Katie Hill) surrogate baby, not bothering to disclose the possibility that the pregnancy is the result of her fling with Ross Barton (Michael Parr).
Carla’s got drama of her own. She’s on a mission to win back her ex Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) from everyone’s favourite bunny boiler Becky (Amy Cudden), who kept poor Carla locked in the back of a cupboard like the old sandwich toaster you never use. These two ladies are going to have a fun time judging – or flirting with – each other.
Then there’s Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) and Ross Barton himself. The only thing these two have in common is being the best at being bad.
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Ross had a passionate affair with his brother’s fiancée, and Tracy’s most famous for bludgeoning Charlie Stubbs to death during a striptease.
A meeting between these two villainous heartbreakers would certainly be interesting, but we can’t imagine many words would be exchanged, if you get our meaning. Wink wink…
Have you ever wondered who makes the better cuppa – Nicola King (Nicola Wheeler) of Emmerdale’s Café Main Street, or Roy Cropper (David Neilson) of Coronation Street’s Roy’s Rolls?
Corriedale might just answer that question once and for all. But while Nicola is a sharp-tongued matriarch who’s never shy of handing out an extra shot of sass with her cappuccinos, Roy is a sweet summer child who may be the nicest, and nerdiest, man in Weatherfield.
We’re worried Nicola is going to laugh at his trainset.
Finally, there’s Sam Dingle (James Hooton) and Kirk Sutherland (Andy Whyment).
Actor James Hooton hilariously described their scene as ‘The meeting of two braincells’, and given what we know about the characters separately, that sounds pretty accurate.
They’re the Tim Nice-but-Dims of their soaps. We can’t imagine what their meeting would look like. But David Platt’s actor, Jack P Shepherd has already given them his casting vote on Instagram, declaring ‘Sam & Kirk is the best scene just saying’.
You heard it here first, folks…
To cast your vote, head to Coronation Street & Emmerdale’s Instagram post on your mobile phone and click your favourite in the poll. Votes close at 7:45pm on Monday, January 5.