EastEnders' Bradley Branning to kill himself?

Bradley Branning could be set to kill himself in EastEnders when he becomes a suspect for Archie's murder, according to reports. The Sun claims that he will jump from a building in the Square in dramatic scenes and that his funeral has already been filmed. An insider told the paper: "They have pulled out all the stops and it's a real tear-jerker. "By killing a main character with a sympathetic suicide, the writers are breaking one of the last taboos. "There have been a few soap suicides of minor characters over the years, but never of someone so central and so well-loved by viewers." The identity of the person who murdered Archie will be revealed to soap fans in the special live episode on February 19. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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.