Meet Becky's sister in the Scoop on Coronation St

Becky and Steve get some bad news about their adoption in next week's Coronation Street. The pair's hopes of adopting are scuppered at the adoption panel meeting and Becky mistakenly believes it's because of her misguided comments to a stranger outside the meeting. Turns out, however, that's it's all down to a bad reference... From her half-sister Kylie, who turns up in Coronation Street next week. You've been warned! 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.