Doug meets his guardian angel - Steph! | Episode | Hollyoaks | What's on TV

At his lowest ebb, Doug can see no way out and decides to end it all. He stands on the edge of the bridge and prepares to jump... As he does so, he is visited by a celestial being in the shape of Stephanie De la Dean! She offers him the opportunity to go back to Hollyoaks for the very first time and he jumps at the chance to start again. Returning to Hollyoaks, Doug is faced with a very different world and begins to appreciate the difference he has made to those around him. But is it too late for him to return to his old life?

CATEGORIES

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.