Can Carmel and Michaela really work things out?

Can Carmel and Michaela really work things out? (Image credit: TONY BLAKE)

Michaela's progress with Carmel is going well, but could an awkward encounter undo everything? Will is desperate to raise cash for his lawyers' bill but after all that's happened will anyone give him a chance? Amy and Ally's relationship reaches crisis point but is this the end? Also, Scott has shock news for his friends, and Leanne gets a job working in Attwells. Can she prove she's up to the job?

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.