Find out why Syed wants to die in the Soap Scoop

Find out why Syed wants to die in the Soap Scoop (Image credit: BBC)

With the whole world turned against him, Syed Masood feels like he only has one option in next week's EastEnders... His parents, his wife, his lover, his Imam, even the local publican have all turned their backs on the desperate lad in the aftermath of Amira's exit. So in classic soap fashion he buys a bottle of vodka, unscrews the cap from a bottle of pills and decides to end it all. Find out what happens in the new Soap Scoop, plus why Tracy Barlow causes chaos at Blanche's funeral in Coronation Street and whether or not Aaron goes to prison in Emmerdale.

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.