CORONATION Street’s legends will find out from next month whether they will still have a job amid ITV’s cash crisis.
Actress Sally Dynevor – who has played Sally Metcalfe for almost four decades in the ITV soap – has opened up about the contract process for the cast.
Sally Dynevor has revealed that the soap’s legends will find out if they’ve been axed very soon[/caption]
Sally has been in the soap for nearly 40 years[/caption]
And she’s revealed that even stars who have appeared on the soap for as long as she has, can get just three months notice that they’re being axed.
So with ITV’s well-publicised cash crisis, and the upcoming crossover with Emmerdale that will see a beloved favourite die – it’s squeaky bum time in Weatherfield.
“I’m only contracted for a year at a time – for all of us, we all get a year,” she said.
“You always think this is the year they’re going to get rid of me.
“None of us are indispensable – there’s always other people and other stories to be told.”
Asked by hosts David Walliams and Matt Lucas about when they are told, she replied: “It’s different.
“All the older ones, that’s me, we find out between November and January whether we’re going to be asked whether we want to stay for another year.”
But asked when her contract ends if she isn’t asked to stay, Sally said: “Mine is the end of January.
“But I did leave one year, I went off to do a play. It was great, I loved that. I took six months or something.”
Corrie and Emmerdale boss Iain MacLeod recently confirmed a beloved character will be killed off soon.
He told MirrorOnline: “The soap gods demand a sacrifice when you have an event of this kind.
“It’s going to be shocking. There will be lots of trauma, lots of drama, lots of twists.
“Sometimes the biggest and best exits are for characters that you care the most about.
“There’s always that equation where you think, ‘If they were to go, the viewers will really care, but what damage will it do to the landscape of the show in terms of the ability to tell stories?”
Meanwhile, some much-loved screen stars from Corrie’s past are set for a second stint in Weathefield.
Iain told the same publication a “few faces” would return and said: “All of it is feeding into this crossover episode we are doing in January.
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“It’s going to get bigger and bigger. Things will peak in a big way.”
The soaps will soon crossover in a one-off event next year that will then kickstart a new broadcast pattern for the soaps.
Both will lose an episode each week and air half-hour editions from Monday to Friday in an hour-long slot between 8-9pm.
The move comes as ratings across TV have collapsed and with it advertising revenue.
