Watch Syed's worst nightmare in the Soap Scoop

Watch Syed's worst nightmare in the Soap Scoop (Image credit: BBC)

Syed Masood's worst nightmare comes true in next week's EastEnders when his father sees him in an embrace with Christian. Try explaining that one! The shock causes Masood to have a spiritual crisis and, inevitably, to turn his back on his son. But there's worse in store for Syed, when it appears that Amira is pregnant. The boy just doesn't know where to turn, so he makes a big decision about his future. Find out what that is, plus how Kevin causes Molly and Tyrone to have a terrible smash in Coronation Street, Zak's latest misadventures in Hollyoaks and why Aaron tries to commit suicide 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.