Jack P Shepherd was heard teasing what’s ahead in the Corrie and Emmerdale crossover, Corriedale, coming to ITV
Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd wasted no time in making a dig at his own show as he spoke about teaming up with Emmerdale for the upcoming history-making crossover.
For the first time ever, the worlds of Weatherfield and the Dales will collide – and one night changes everything as a multi-vehicle pile-up will be at the centre of the drama, having major repercussions and linking the ITV soaps together forever.
The one-off episode, dubbed Corriedale, will air on Monday, January 5, at 8pm, and has been created to officially launch a new daily broadcast pattern for both flagship soaps, which will see both shows air 30 minutes each weekday evening – Emmerdale episodes at 8pm, and Coronation Street episodes at 8.30pm on ITV1 and STV.
But in a change for one day only, the episode won’t be available to watch early from 7am on ITVX or YouTube, creating a huge TV moment on the night.
A 40-strong cast list for the historic TV event has previously been confirmed by ITV, with Jack’s character David Platt set to be caught up in the drama alongside his pregnant wife, Shona, played by actress Julia Goulding.
And when teasing what’s ahead, Jack, who celebrated 25 years on the cobbles earlier this year, took a hilarious swipe at his own soap as he confessed Emmerdale could “show them how it’s done” when it came to the dramatic stunts.
“I did a little run through the flames. Yeah, it’s great. I think if there’s any stunts,” he said of his involvement. “Listen, all the years that we’ve watched Emmerdale’s stunts, they’ve always gone down in history as being better than ours,” he then confessed at the Corriedale premiere.
“It was nice to finally work with them, so that they could show us exactly how to do it. I’ve always thought their stunts were better than ours. But no, it was good!”
He added: “I mean, it’s lots of car crashes, and that was right in the beginning of the ep, wasn’t it? So you were right there straight away, seeing all these cars like collide and everything. I think it looked great.
“We’re still taking it all in, I suppose, because obviously it’s the first time we’ve seen it, so I only saw little bits when we were actually filming it on the night. But of course, we weren’t there for any of the stunts, because it was just the stunt drivers and everything, no cast were involved.”
While there is destruction ahead on-screen, the 37-year-old soap star said everything was great off-screen as he added: “Oh yeah, there’s fire and everything and we’re all there just having a laugh, and we’ve got Haribo and sweets and stuff and chocolate, so they just feed us and we were okay, weren’t we?
“We were all having a laugh, and it was dry, it didn’t rain, so yeah. [Director] Duncan [Foster] knew what he was doing, so no one was worried!”
