Owen Armstrong to return to Coronation Street in January 2027

Coronation Street has announced that Ian Puleston-Davies will return as Owen Armstrong, with the character due to appear in January 2027 after leaving Weatherfield in 2015. The return will place Owen in a storyline involving Gary Windass, who has begun an eight-month prison sentence, according to the programme’s announcement and reporting about the plot. Owen is set to move back to Weatherfield and live with his daughter Izzy and grandson Jake. The announced storyline has him blame Gary, Izzy’s former partner, for his family’s misfortune. It also says Owen intends to help Izzy and Jake, though the precise effect of his return on Gary or the family’s circumstances has not been revealed. Gary’s sentence follows his involvement in helping Sarah Platt cover up the murder of Theo Silverton, as described in reports on the soap’s plot. The storyline announcement presents Owen’s return as a new source of tension while Gary is in prison. It does not establish what will happen to Gary’s builders’ yard, which has been raised as a possible point of conflict. Puleston-Davies, who is reprising the role, said he was glad to be back and described Owen as still angry. Producer Kate Brooks said...