Watch the Scoop on Gail Platt's murder trial

Gail Platt learns her fate in next week's Coronation Street when the jury returns its verdict in the Joe McIntyre murder trial. The outcome is cloaked in so much secrecy that producers have filmed guilty and not guilty verdicts and not even the cast know the real scenario. But one thing's certain: Tracy Barlow gets hospitalised for ratting on a fellow inmate and then learns her deal to move to an open prison is off! Watch the Scoop on next week's Coronation Street, but be aware that producers have not finalised the broadcast schedule in the light of the show being postponed following the Cumbria murders.

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.