CORONATION Street have now returned to filming after production was halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As result of the time lost, some budding storylines have now had to be scrapped as writers were forced to change their plans.
Iain MacLeod, an executive producer, told the Mirror: "There were a few that featured cast that are no longer available.
"A few where we have had to press pause on and hopefully we'll resume those as quickly as possible."
So which plots got scrapped? One includes a Hollywood-style stunt that was planned for the soap's 60th anniversary.
Several storylines were expected to reach their climax on the special date, but the coronavirus meant it was no longer feasible.
MacLeod explained: "What we have had to strip out for our 60th is the Hollywood spectacular elements as we didn’t have time to build and install what we had originally planned, what we have discovered beneath the spectacular is a strong community story which is a theme that has really resurged under lockdown."
He added: "There’s a real sense of street community again now. We’ve got a huge human interest story which emerges from something on screen now which has been engaging. A classic salacious love triangle is also in there."
Another storyline which was set for an explosive finale during the finals week of Britain's Got Talent, but it has now been shifted to later in the year.
It is likely to be arguably the cobbles' biggest storyline of the year so far with Geoff Metcalfe who had been abusing wife Yasmeen Nazir before she stabbed him in the neck with a wine bottle.
Commenting on what had been planned for BGT finals weeks, Iain said: "We normally do a big spectacular story climax and that proved to not be possible this time.
"So rather than do a half-cooked version of it, because it required a location, we elected to push the big centrepiece, drama of that week and do it later in the year at a time we can do it full beam rather than a compromised version."
It is unlikely that we will see the continuation of the Chesney and Gemma quadruplets storyline for now, as the showrunner confirmed children are still not allowed on set.
Steve and Leanne's young son Oliver is suffering from mitochondria and the Corrie boss said that it was not necessary to have him in the scenes as it largely involved the family around the child.
Fan favourite and no-nonsense Evelyn is in a budding relationship long-lost lover Arthur Medwin.
As the elderly members of the cast are currently banned from the set, certain plots involving will either be put on hold or cancelled.
However, Iain has said that he has a plan to include the older cast in some scenes.
He explained: "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, so it's not like we'll have to explain that they've gone away somewhere. It's purely that they're self-isolating.
"It has provided us with some opportunities to do some interesting stories as well. We have considered having some of the older cast, vulnerable cast, on Zoom calls or Skype calls or Facetiming and other ways of storytelling that incorporate that as a device."
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