Coronation Street spoilers: Boss Iain MacLeod reveals explosive love triangle

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Coronation Street has resumed filming, which means that in spite of fears that it would run out of episodes, the soap will remain on air and — amid plans for a car stunt and the upcoming 60th anniversary — there’s a love triangle on the horizon.

Speaking about what’s to come in the soap now that it’s back in production, Executive Producer Iain MacLeod said: ‘There’s a real sense of street community again now.

‘We’ve got a huge human interest story which emerges from something on screen now which has been engaging. A classic salacious love triangle is also in there.’

Production has resumed, but social distancing measures are in place (Picture: ITV)

While there’s no hint yet as to which characters will be involved in this love triangle, it’ll certainly be interesting to see how such a storyline is depicted, given that social distancing measures have now been implemented on set.

As a result of said social distancing measures, several storylines have had to be altered.

Iain told us: ‘That’s been the biggest challenge – working out if we are adhering to all the guidelines – how one earth do you make a programme about social interactions, romance, someone punching someone in the Rovers adhere to social distancing – it’s been incredibly challenging.

‘We’ve stripped everything back to what soap originated with – brilliant dialogue played brilliantly by extremely talented cast. Hopefully it will be equally good but just a bit different.

‘We’ve taken out all essential prop interactions because every time something has been touched – that’s three possible chains of transmission for virus particles. We’ve taken eating and drinking out.

‘We’ve removed anything that would be close proximity. We’re losing kissing, hugging, holding hands which provides challenges.

‘We had a scene in a pre pandemic universe that required a character to try and kiss another which is now not acceptable. So the writer had to craft it and made the come on verbal – it works equally well.

‘It’s a challenging time for everyone who works on the show but everyone has really risen to the challenge. We will have episodes that will acknowledge the pandemic but won’t be dominated by it.’

Coronation Street continues Friday 12 June at 7:30pm on ITV.

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