Catherine Tyldesley to take Coronation Street break
Coronation Street star Catherine Tyldesley is to take a break from the ITV soap later this year, when she jets to Malta to shoot her exit scenes from Channel 5 drama The Good Ship Murder.
Catherine Tyldesley is to take a break from Coronation Street to film her exit scenes in The Good Ship Murder.
The 42-year-old actress portrays main character Kate Woods in the Channel 5 drama, and she is due to fly to Malta this spring to shoot her departure.
A source told The Sun newspaper's TV Biz column: "Cath spoke to her bosses at Corrie about taking some time off to film her Good Ship exit and they agreed.
"When she agreed to return to the soap there was a lot of uncertainty about whether or not she would be able to go back, but fortunately it’s all working out."
The Good Ship Murder series three comes to an end this month, ahead of the start of filming on series four later this year.
Catherine appears alongside her former Corrie co-star Shayne Ward (Jack Grayling) in the crime drama, and her character Kate is expected to bow out of series four with a "happy ending".
The source added: "There was talk about possibly killing off her character but in the end bosses decided that she would get a happy ending.
"The writers are delighted that Cath is able to return to film her exit.
"Cath and Shayne have formed such an incredible partnership on-screen and the viewers deserve to see how it all ends for them."
Catherine's Corrie character Eva returned to the cobbles in October, as the new landlady of the Rovers Return, following a seven-year absence from Weatherfield.
Shortly afterwards, the star told how she thought the soap's bosses were trying to bring back an "old school Corrie vibe" on the show.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, she said: "What Kate Brooks, our wonderful producer, has done is bring back an old school Corrie feeling. She is super passionate about that and she is a big Corrie fan and that was one of the reasons I agreed to come back, was because of her vision for the show and where she wanted to take it.
"Finding those character-led storylines, with strong women at the forefront is something Corrie has always done so well and that the audience seem to crave, and I think Kate is feeding that.
"It's important to move with the times but also know who your target audience is, everyone kept saying they want that 'Old school Corrie vibe, we want it be character led' and I feel the show is nailing that."
