Good golly, Granny's got Molly!

Good golly, Granny's got Molly!
Good golly, Granny's got Molly!

Poor little Molly Sharma! She's less than three months old and her parents are constantly changing their minds about who should look after her. When she was first born, her mother Gennie was an emotional basket case because she thought she couldn't cope with her. Then Gennie realised she's actually not bad as a mother - so she went back to work and shared child care with dad Nikhil. Yes! Neurotic Nikhil, who's likely to starch Molly's nappies and bathe her five times a day! Except now that Jai's fallen apart, Nikhil has to go back to work at the factory full time. Gennie's very upset - not for Molly, but for herself. She's planned a business trip to Germany, so who's going to look after her baby? Granny Georgia - the woman who never lets anyone wonder what's on her mind because she just comes right out and tells them! Charity tells Jai what's on her mind: divorce. He wants a baby, she doesn't - so it's only fair if she lets him go so he can find a woman who will give him what he wants. Now! Tell her now, Jai, that you have a baby! OK, then, don't. Chas lets Bernice know what she thinks about her plans to buy Chas's share of the pub - by throwing a box of nuts at her. Assaulted peanuts! Call the cops!

Patrick McLennan

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.