Writing The Death of PC Craig Tinker

On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben

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Comedy, Unknown, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.8 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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✒️ In a special episode, Coronation Street Writer Debbie Oates joins the boys to talk about writing for the show for nearly 25 years and what you do when you’re asked to help kill off an iconic character.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is on the sofa.
0:11.2	I am Carlson Smith and as always, I'm joined by.
0:13.6	Jack P. Shepherd.
0:14.5	Ben.
0:15.5	We are the three best pals from the cobbles of Coronation Streets.
0:20.2	Now, speaking of Coronation Street, last week
0:22.4	was a very big week for myself and our dear friend, our fallen hero, P.C.
0:29.1	Wow, well, the freedom. Fallen Hero. Yes. Our fallen hero. Everybody's best friend. But if you've
0:36.5	not watched last week's episode, spoiler alert,
0:39.3	Craig Tinker is dead. And today we're talking all about that. But we promised to make it a little bit
0:44.6	special for you. We wanted to give a bit of an inside line as to what it was like in the world
0:52.8	of filming those last couple of episodes for myself and for Craig Tinker.
0:57.5	And we are delighted that in the on the sofa studio of us today, we have a very special guest.
1:05.1	This guest has been on the cobbles for 25 stars in their eyes.
1:12.0	It's like, This is your life.
1:15.1	This is the intro.
1:16.8	23 years on the cobbles has written, not appeared in, but written close to 300 episodes.
1:25.9	Welcome to on the sofa, Debbie Oates.
1:29.1	Thank you very much.
1:30.2	It's lovely to be here.
1:31.5	It's great to have you on.
1:33.4	So Debbie is here because Debbie wrote the Monday of last week's Corey.
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