Watch Archie's arson plan unfold in the Soap Scoop

Watch Archie's arson plan unfold in the Soap Scoop (Image credit: BBC)

Archie Mitchell is prepared to go to any lengths to bring down the Mitchells, but burning down The Vic to take ownership of it seems a touch perverse. But that's exactly what he tries to do in EastEnders next week after Janine convinces him that money-troubled landlady Peggy will look like she arranged the fire as an insurance scam. Find out if his villainous plan succeeds and exactly how Peggy falls back into his arms in latest Soap Scoop. There are also revelations about Roy's moral dilemma after Tony's confession in Coronation Street, how Calvin and Mercedes get together in Hollyoaks and why Leyla turns down David's proposal 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.