Watch how John Stape's double identity is rumbled

A teacher thinks there's something decidedly fishy about Colin Fishwick in next week's Coronation Street. Teacher Carol spots John Stape on a course and when he's identified as Colin she knows immediately that he's lying. So she follows him to Coronation Street. How long will John manage to keep his identity theft secret? Watch the Scoop on Coronation Street to see how events unfold...

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.