Corrie bosses are going to “cheat” their way to a new normal using Zoom calls to include older cast members and “verbal come ons” instead of kisses.
Library shots of child actors, not yet allowed back to the Salford set, will also be employed along with clever camera angles to make couples appear intimate.
And despite all location filming being scrapped, some stunts will still be shot, with characters kept at least two metres apart at all times.
Show producer Iain MacLeod admitted: "Our request to directors has been: cheat it. We will use focal distancing and foreshortening to make it look like married couples are closer than they are and create a bit of intimacy. "Otherwise it will look peculiar if they are unnaturally distancing.” The