A big week of Corrie will focus on the acid attack story (Picture: ITV)

Coronation Street has confirmed its annual special week to coincide with Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals, with some major storylines set to play out.

It has become a tradition that Corrie will air five episodes across the week, sandwiched between two BGT episodes. However, the plan is slightly different this year, with no late editions of the soap.

And, understandably, they reserve some big plots for the occasion.

Viewers will have to be ready for some significant schedule changes, with Emmerdale airing at its former time of 7pm, and Corrie moving back to 7:30pm, clashing with EastEnders.

This will be across the dates of Monday May 29 and April 2.

The focus of the week in Weatherfield will be the beginning of acid attacker Justin’s trial, in which he faces prison for his brutal actions which left Ryan Connor (Ryan Prescott) scarred for life.

Justin had been stalking Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) and, in sick revenge over being repeatedly and strongly rejected, he launched acid at her, only for Ryan to intervene.

Subsequent episodes have seen Ryan deal with the aftermath of what has happened, being emotionally and physically traumatised and almost dying from sepsis.

Justin was arrested after having the audacity to travel to the hospital where Ryan was being treated to intimidate Daisy again.

In this week, Ryan and Daisy will hope for justice in a turbulent week of court scenes – but will they get the verdict they need?

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk recently, actor Ryan Prescott told us: ‘There’s a long road for Ryan to go down regardless when it comes to recovery whether that’s on a psychological level or a physical level.

Daisy faces Ryan in court (Pictures: ITV)

‘There’s more stages of recovery he needs to go through on a physical level and that takes him to different realisations and levels of acceptance and denial within that process of the recovery.’

And he added that viewers have reached out to him, grateful to the show for running the scenes, despite their harrowing nature.

‘There’s so much empathy out there and people relating to the storyline whether they’ve been through an acid attack, severe trauma or extreme violence of some nature, whether they relate to it or not, I’ve had so much back that’s positive.

‘People are really happy that we’re going there, people are happy that we’re telling the story in this way,’ he explained.

‘It’s a storyline that we approached in such a respectful, sensitive manner because of the sensitivity around it.

‘We just wanted to get it right but we wanted it to be shocking because that level of extreme violence is, and the whole traumatic idea of it is that it leaves you in shock somewhat.

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