Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod has promised that viewers will be left shocked by the twists and turns in the upcoming stunt week of episodes.
In the week of episodes, which are being branded 'Horror Nation Street', multiple residents are left in peril - and at least one will be killed off before the week is out.
"What you can expect is something truly massive," MacLeod told the Daily Star. "We had a conversation with the network earlier in the year, and they said, 'What about we did something in the autumn where money was no object and you just went nuts, and we sort of re-announce to the world that Coronation Street is still operating in top gear?'
"As a producer, when someone says, 'Imagine money's no object', you do kind of rub your hands together a bit.
"So we set out to do something really huge. I wrote down an outline of what I wanted this week to be, and in the back of my mind I thought, 'There's no way we'll be able to do all this - it's just too ambitious!' I gave it to our incredibly talented production team and crew and they went, 'Yep, we can do that!'
"Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, we set about refining scripts to try and create something really thriller-ish, really visual, really heartfelt and humorous in places.
"It's got loads of twists in it. It's got some stuff in there which I think you'll never see coming - which is, for my money, always the best thing in a soap or in any drama. Stuff that makes you go, 'What have they just done?' - and there's lots of that in there."
Corrie's fellow ITV soap Emmerdale is also airing a stunt week later this month involving a terrifying 'Maize Maze'.
Neil Wilkes
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