Coronation Street’s Stephen Story Nearly Went On For Six More Months

Fans of the popular soap opera Coronation Street are preparing for a dramatic week as multiple murderer Stephen Reid (Todd Boyce) is about to receive justice.

This year’s eagerly anticipated Super Soap Week focuses on the residents of the Street finally realizing what kind of person Stephen Reid really is after getting away with his murderous ways since he claimed his first victim Leo Thompkins (Joe Frost) last October.

Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine), who has long suspected Stephen’s motivations, will be shown in tense scenes finding a corpse in the canal after having already noticed Stephen showing an odd interest in the aforementioned waterway.

But Stephen found him and proceeded to find him, tie him up, render him unconscious, and place his lifeless body in the trunk of his car, which he then filled with gasoline. Will Tim become Stephen’s fourth and perhaps last victim?

Other residents from Coronation Street, including Carla (Alison King), Sarah (Tina O’Brien), and Jenny (Sally Ann Matthews), are starting to piece together Stephen’s many crimes and lies. A distraught Audrey (Sue Nicholls) is forced to confront the horrifying revelation that her adored son has been concealing sinister secrets and heinous crimes.

The episodes this week will be “thriller-esque,” according to Todd Boyce, who also predicted that “the audience will be pleased with it.”

But he revealed to Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond that Corrie executive Ian MacLeod had seriously considered continuing Stephen’s story for a little while.

Iain considered extending by another six months. ‘I think the audience were losing their minds – they wanted justice!’ Todd said, adding that the plan was abandoned.

Stephen has eluded justice for many months, killing three people in that time: businessman Rufus Donahue (Steven Meo), who was drugged and later drowned in a pool, along with Leo and his father Teddy Thompkins (Grant Burgin), both of whom were struck in the head. Along with planning to steal money from his mother Audrey and Elaine Metcalfe (Paula Wilcox), Stephen also tortured Carla by giving her LSD.

The bad guys in soap operas always get what they deserve in the end, and Stephen is likely to be exposed now that he has committed such a long list of crimes.

Todd Boyce’s Corrie co-stars are unanimous in their praise of him as an actor and a colleague, so they would have likely been overjoyed if the story had continued for another six months. That much is undeniably true.

He is most likely one of the nicest men you will ever meet, Sally Dynevor told us. He is beautiful. He really is a very handsome man. Any scene I’ve done with him has been enjoyable.

She went on to say that everyone at Corrie agreed with her, and many of them had gathered for their beloved coworker’s farewell party. He will be sincerely missed. He has been a really sweet addition to the cast. It makes you really sad when an actor like that quits the cast after joining because you’ve grown close to them. I believe he will continue to accomplish great things because I think he is fantastic.

Todd’s next gig is already booked: he’ll be playing the part of Demon Vanity in the Mother Goose panto in Derby, where fans will be able to heckle and hiss him in person.

The actor told the Manchester Evening News, “And then Bill Kenwright, who was famously an actor in Corrie before he became a theatre producer, just offered me, without even blinking, the Laurence Olivier part in Sleuth and that’s going on tour.”

I’m ecstatic about that because it will get me through to the end of June.