Nikhil wants to marry Maisie

Nikhil wants to marry Maisie
Nikhil wants to marry Maisie (Image credit: Helen Turton)

So, what's to become of Maisie and Will in 2011? Nikhil has given that a lot of thought. So has Will, who wants to move somewhere new with Maisie...and Ryan. Will loves his brother but isn't aware of just how awkward things still are because Maisie loved her brother (before she knew he was her brother, of course). Ryan tells Maisie their near-incestuous past means he can't make a life with them and it's clear that Maisie is a little disappointed. So how will she react when Nikhil asks her to marry him? With shock, that's how... There are no shocks at the factory's better-late-than-never Christmas meal. The staff are stuffed and very merry. Lisa and Zak suggest Derek spends the night at their cottage, where he has more to drink and flirts with Lisa after Zak has gone to bed. But Lisa's a one-man woman. Andy wants to be a one-woman man and he wants the woman to be Katie. Chas and Gennie think he's been making the nuisance calls because Katie doesn't want to be that woman. So what does he do? He scares the life out of Katie by turning up late at night to tell her that he's really a good guy! Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.