‘Coronation Street’ script writers have been working "furiously" to change upcoming storylines due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ian Bartholomew – who plays evil Geoff Metcalfe on the show – says the ITV soap’s writers will need to alter their current plots, because the cast will probably still have to apply social distancing when they return.
He said: "We’ll have to have smaller crews. And that’s the headaches that the writers and the producers and storyliners have at the moment.
"They’re working furiously to try and pull the storylines that they’ve got back into some sort of shape that we’ll be able to tell in a different way."
Ian admitted the pandemic will "change the map of how we work" when filming gets back underway.
He explained: "I think in the forefront of everybody’s mind at the moment, is what happens after this is all over.
"What happens after lockdown? What happens when we get back to it?
"Because it will change. It will change the map of how we work and how we make the programme, because we’ll have to have social distancing."
‘Corrie’ producers halted production last month after the country went into lockdown, and they reduced the show’s output from six to three episodes a week.
Ian’s character Geoff has been psychologically abusing his on-screen wife Yasmeen for months, but the troubling storyline has forced Ian’s kids to switch off the TV when ‘Corrie’ is on because it is too "unpleasant" for them to watch.
Speaking on ‘Good Morning Britain’, he said: "They didn’t want to watch, they saw me lock Yasmeen into the box, the magic box and they said, ‘No, can’t watch Dad doing that.’
"So they haven’t watched since then and I can’t blame them. It must be quite difficult for them to watch their dad being unpleasant the whole time."
Corrie writers working furiously to change plots due to coronavirus
