Sam and Jack get steamy in the new Soap Scoop

Sam and Jack get steamy in the new Soap Scoop (Image credit: BBC)

Jack Branning and Sam Mitchell end up in bed in EastEnders next week - and it's all part of Archie's plan to get his hands on the Queen Vic. The serial schemer is hoping that Jack and Sam will get together and head abroad so that Phil will lose the bail money that the Mitchells put up for Sam - allowing Archie to swoop on the Vic. Watch how the events unfold in the new Soap Scoop, plus how Tony confesses in Coronation Street, how Newt has a run-in with Rae in Hollyoaks and how Charity plots against Cain 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.