Coronation Street have planned to allow its older cast return to the soap despite the government's guidelines - through Zoom-style scenes.
The ITV soap's Executive Producer Iain MacLeod, however, confirmed that children wouldn't be appearing any time soon. This comes after Corrie returned to filming this week after a three-month break following the country's lockdown.
Opening up to Mirror TV and other news outlets about plans to explain various characters' absence on the show, he said that it wasn't a "one size fits all" solution. "In some cases we'll be telling a story that accounts for them being off screen for the time being but in other cases we'll imagine that they're just upstairs unseen," he said. "So it's not like we'll have to