Coronation Street legend Thelma Barlow says the long-running soap has lost its humour over the years and has too much violence now.
The 91-year-old, who played Mavis Wilton in the ITV soap for 26 years, fears the show has lost the warmth and gentle comedy it had in her day as storylines become ever more gruesome.
She said: “I think the Street when I was in it had this wonderful thing of comedy, the comedy characters. “I don’t watch it regularly now.
I occasionally have a look but I don’t see much to laugh at now. I think it’s a shame." She added: “We used to get scripts where you’d talk about nothing important at all, nothing to do with the plot, but they could be so real and so funny. “It was normal conversation without having great
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