15 seconds of fame

Sad git that I am, I still get a little thrill seeing my name in print in the media. And equally, sad git that I am, it has to do with Coronation Street! This week on the show as aired in the UK (Canada is a week behind), the character of Kevin Webster remarked that "It must be hard to bury a child". Social Media went up in smoke. Kevin Webster lost an infant son this week 15 years ago. Has he forgotten? Clearly the writers and producer did. They're supposed to have an on-staff archivist that checks things like that but in recent years they've been woefully slack and the fans pick up stuff like this all the time. The producer spoke to one of the tabloids yesterday and apologized for the mistake. I can't see the article because it's in the Sun and you have to have a subscription and...it's The Sun. Why would i? lol but other media have picked it up and repeated it and in one that I saw, my online nickname jumped off the screen at the end. I remember the quote, I said it on a blog comment.

However, this was the full quote. I suppose it wasn't too flattering to ITV to use it all!
"They're supposed to have a historian or archivist and like to brag about that and continuity when everyone can see it's a load of rubbish. ITV Corrie staff and writers are probably bashing their collective heads against a wall today with the outrage flaming up social media reminding them of the gaffe. Damn. We just can't get one past those fans no matter what we do! Daran Little never would have let that one slip."

Daran Little was the old archivist who has written a number of very good Corrie books and when he was on staff, something like this would never have got through.