‘Crisis’ For Coronation Street As They Struggle To Find New Boss: ‘No-one Wants To Do To It’

Following the resignation of their own EP Jane Hudson, we revealed in January that McLeod was taking a job as executive producer, ignoring Corrie and another ITV soap opera Emmerdale.

Award-winning plotlines, like the acid assault on Ryan Connor (Ryan Prescott) and Geoff Metcalfe’s (Ian Bartholomew) coercive, controlling wife Yasmeen (Shelley King), have been spearheaded by him during his tenure on the show.

The disappearance of Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) and the effects of Peter Barlow’s (Chris Gascoyne) departure on Simon (Alex Bain), Simon’s son, have been the subjects of more recent episodes.

It is known that assistant producer Verity MacLeod, his wife, will step in for him in the interim.

“ITV have had conversations with a number of television executives who are currently working on other serial dramas or have previously been at the helm of big shows,” a source informed MailOnline.

Nobody wants to do it, though. The idea that you would report to Iain and have his wife serve as your deputy is one of the things turning people off, they went on.

Nobody wants to be in the midst of a “MacLeod sandwich,” and it’s getting worse for ITV right now.

It is important to acknowledge that the process of appointing a new producer is always drawn out, and that during the first thirty years of the soap opera, the role was frequently more flexible, including multiple individuals who would assume leadership roles for far shorter periods of time.

Bill Podmore, the legendary manager, held the role at eight different periods between 1976 and 1989.

Since 2013, Stuart Blackburn and Kate Oates have both crossed the Pennines to assume leadership roles in Emmerdale; however, with Kate Brooks and Laura Shaw holding onto their existing positions, it appears unlikely this time.

The revelation was released shortly after actor William Roache, who has portrayed street mainstay Ken Barlow since the show’s debut in 1960, talked about how the program had to adapt in order to attract new fans.

In a personalized Cameo video, he addressed a fan, saying, “The difficulty the producers have is you have an older generation that’s getting older, there’s a younger generation that’s coming in and you’ve got to keep appealing to the younger generation and that isn’t easy.”

It would have become a dinosaur and passed away by now if it had stayed the same. To pull in the young, it must be an organic process, a living thing.