Michaela defends Doug

When Michaela sees a dejected Doug, she lays into Jodie over her fickle attitude to relationships. Brendan and Warren come to blows as Nancy struggles to contain a shocking revelation. And Mitzeee tries to win Warren round, but who's playing who? Riley and Mercedes plan a Christmas meal for Bobby. Is this the opportunity she's been waiting for to get close to him again?

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.