Coronation Street’s cast and crew are in uproar over plans to air six episodes a week
It was announced yesterday that the soap would be adding another episode from late 2017

CORONATION Street's cast and crew are in uproar over plans to air six episodes a week - believing standards will drop as a result.
A show insider said they are too short-staffed to cope and they feel they will be “worked to the bone” to fill another 30 minute episode
every week.
Some say they worry storylines will be dragged out or that new ones won't meet the high standards of the world's longest-running soap.
And younger cast members are now eyeing bumper pay-rises - with some newcomers paid up to six times less than veteran actors on the show.
A Street source said: "They believe many more cast will need to be hired to cope, if they don't then the existing cast are going to be worked to the bone to fill the extra half an hour, and it's the same with the crew.
"The cast fear that going to an extra episode will bore fans. Six episodes a week, 52 weeks a year leaves no feeling of 'wanting more'."
In an email sent to cast and crew in Wednesday's surprise announcement, Corrie stars were promised there would be new hires.
The email said: "We’ll be able to strengthen and increase our teams right across the board to support making the additional episodes.
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"It will also enable us to enhance all the positive things we currently do and are rightly proud of, such as training, apprenticeships, social inclusion, and sustainability."
The show's younger cast are now putting pressure on show bosses for pay-rises with the increase in working hours.
New actors who joined the show like Lucy Fallon, 20, who plays Bethany Platt, pick up six times less than Street veterans like Bill Roache, 84.
And strict rules mean glam actors including Brooke Vincent, 24, and Kym Marsh, 40, have been forced to turn down lucrative ads plugging clothes and cosmetics.
A TV source said: “Everyone thinks that the actors are on top dollar but that’s not the case. Some are on big money but the salaries drop off really quickly.
“The six-days-a week run is now an opportunity for them to really boost their earnings with extra appearance fees.
“The kids coming in now are on a pittance compared with what the older cast members earn.
“They work really hard but compared to the older cast, their salaries are chalk and cheese. And a lot of the actors have been offered advertising work that they aren’t allowed to do because they are in a soap.”
Newcomers can earn as little as £40,000—a-year – that’s on a par with cast members at Channel 4 show Hollyoaks, which has a fraction of the viewers of Corrie.
While Weatherfield big guns are taking home a quarter of a million pounds.
But now the extra workload should mean extra appearance fees and royalty payments for repeats on ITV2.
It's not yet known which day the extra episode will be shown on.
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