Corrie: A fitting end for sex kitten with nine lives

Lucy Beale may have been murdered on Good Friday but people who follow TV soaps religiously had to look to Coronation Street to find a character rising again after being killed for her sins.

To all intents and purposes, Tina McIntyre was dead on Tuesday, pushed off her rooftop veranda by a cross Rob. But on Wednesday she was back on her feet and mouthing off to him again.

Unusually for a soap, the person who thought he’d killed her accidentally then finished the job for real, although even now Tina is still technically alive. Maybe he’ll visit the Rasputin of Weatherfield in hospital this week and kill her for a third time.

Given that he was pushed over the edge (an unfortunate metaphor to use in the circumstances, I grant you) by her threatening to tell the police about his batch of dodgy hairdryers, it’s ironic that killing Tina has been anything but cut and dried for raging Rob.

Tina’s truncated death was the main focus of a fine week for Corrie, which was something of a lap of honour after winning the Best Programme at the British Soap Awards last weekend (again).

Adding some levity where the characters on EastEnders would just shout louder at each other was Peter Barlow. While his mistress was falling from a great height, the boozy bookie was digging a massive hole for himself with a feeble confession about what he’d been up to since his wedding day to wife Carla.

His finest lines were reserved for the woman who, until very recently, was the apple of his eye. “We would have been over by Stockport, Macclesfield at a push,” he told Tina to the news that she’d booked train tickets to London for the pair of them (I know the Great Northern line has a sketchy track record but surely the service isn’t so bad it can put an end to relationships).

As it dawned on her what a weasel she had been carrying on with all this time, suicide must have been an option for Tina when she got on to that roof. But instead it was Rob, with the lead piping, round the back of Roy’s Rolls, although the one thing EastEnders does have in common with Coronation Street is that, when it comes to finding a murderer, the police haven’t a cluedo.