Jailed Jim could return to Street
Coronation Street’s Jim McDonald could make a dramatic return to the popular soap after he was jailed for killing a drug dealer, it emerged today.
Actor Charles Lawson has said he would like to return to the Street when his character has served the prison sentence.
And bosses of the show have not ruled out a return for Jim.
Lawson, who appeared in more than 1,000 episodes of the show before leaving last year, told a special documentary called Life After The Street: ‘‘Jim got eight years, didn’t he, which is a ridiculously harsh sentence for manslaughter, I have to say.
‘‘So he’ll do four, so in three years time, if they were going to phone me up and say would you like to come back, I would certainly go and have a few jars with the producer and find out what he or she wanted me to do.
‘‘And if it was valid and if it was worthwhile, then I’d do it.’’
A Coronation Street spokesman said: ‘‘The character of Jim McDonald was not killed off, he was sent to prison. Steve (Jim’s son) still lives on the Street, so he still has connections there, so who knows what will happen.’’
Life After The Street, which will be screened on ITV on Friday at 9.30pm, catches up with 12 former members of the cast to trace their careers since leaving Weatherfield.
Amanda Barrie talks about her torment at filming the final scenes when her character Alma Halliwell died of cervical cancer.
She said every time she hears the show’s famous theme tune she has to fight back tears.
‘‘Of course I’m going to miss Coronation Street,’’ she said. ‘‘But it isn’t an emotional wrench separating me from Coronation Street because it kind of remains in me. I’m a sentimental twit in the first place and I’ll probably cry if I hear the music now.’’
