Corrie stars get stuck in

related stories

• 

  Brian Belo takes on TOWIE

• Corrie bosses on the hunt for Carla's brother

• Celebrity Big Brother to return

The cast of Coronation Street are a famously hard working bunch - and now they're bracing themselves for even longer hours, in a bid to avert a real-life drama when the soap moves home.

Later this year, Corrie will leave the Manchester studios where it has been filmed for 51 years to a new location in nearby Salford. To avoid falling behind with filming, actors and crew have pledged to work their socks off in order to stockpile extra episodes.

Executive producer Kieran Roberts told The Sun: "Over the course of the next year we're going to get a little bit further ahead of ourselves than we normally do." The soap is already filmed several weeks in advance, but the new directive could see them get up to ten weeks ahead.

A soap mole added: "Everyone wants the move to go well and as a result we are throwing everything into preparing for it. If that means working round the clock, then they will. It is as an extra precaution, as Coronation Street has never been off air in its history." Crikey, break a leg, guys!