Get the scoop on David Platt's collapse (VIDEO)

David Platt appears to be up to his old tricks when he collapses in court in next week's Coronation Street. The twisted teen is in court to make a plea after he ran down his friend Graeme. And he thinks things are looking up when Graeme finally comes around in intensive care. But if he expects his mate to reveal it was an accident then he's mistaken, because Graeme wants vengeance. Then David suddenly blacks out as he takes the dock. Is he really ill, or is it a typical David ploy to get out of trouble? Get the scoop on next week's Coronation Street:

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.