Ste worries about Doug and Leanne's nuptials
Ste starts to regret Doug and Leanne's impending nuptials when he finds himself on the outside of the Carter family. Riley visits a desperate Mitzeee in prison and Mercedes is devastated to see that they still have feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Dr Browning, is unravelling in Mercy's absence... It's exam results day for the sixth formers, and its good news for Ricky, but will he be able to leave the comfort of his friends? Esther makes the mistake of being filmed doing a drunken impression of Maddie and ruining Maddie's fur coat which Sinead is wearing when she's drunkenly sick all over it. Also, Brendan tries to persuade Cheryl to return to Ireland with him and Declan, but is she the only one holding him back? Meanwhile, Texas and Dodger have disastrous dates with Rob and Annalise.
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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.