Obitchuary

Blanche died. Coronation Street will never be the same again without her dry waspishness (or do I mean waspish dryness?). Although it was the actress who died, not the character. The character is another matter. I seem to remember that when the guy who played Stan Ogden died suddenly back in the 80's, they kept the character alive, ill in bed upstairs. If I'm not misremembering, you could hear him banging on the ceiling like a poltergeist. It was creepy.

So quick and clean seems best for Blanche. Quick, anyway. We were discussing the issue at work and Lorraine said she could be hit by a bus. And then, I elaborated, her body could be flung through the window of the Kabin, into the arms of Norris. Imagine his face! Then the bus could run Rosie over, or something.

Some might think that this scenario is disrespectful to the actress. But they wouldn't use the actual corpse. And anyway, it's what she would have wanted.