Peggy finds out about Archie's engagement

Peggy finds out about Archie's engagement
Peggy finds out about Archie's engagement (Image credit: BBC)

Archie gives Peggy the divorce papers, but he tells her he still loves her and wants to make a go of things. Peggy is swayed by Archie's pleas, but leaves without committing to anything. Ryan has overheard Peggy's conversation with Archie and tells Janine that Archie was trying to win back Peggy. Janine breaks the news to a stunned Peggy that she and Archie are engaged. Peggy confronts Archie and signs the divorce papers and throws them at him. Back at the Vic flat the family toast divorce, family and Christmas. Ryan tells the Mitchells to come downstairs and they're are stunned to see Archie is standing behind the bar with Janine. Archie reveals that he's now the legal owner of the Vic... Amira gives Masood and Zainab the money from her dad's safety deposit box to put towards the wedding. Christian is miserable when he sees a happy Syed and Amira. Christian arrives late for the wedding dance rehearsal with Syed and tells an upset Zainab that he hasn't got time to do the rehearsals. Also, Dotty bribes Mo to let her play Angel Gabriel in the Nativity; Whitney is relieved when Tony is found guilty on all charges; Jane mourns the loss of her dream of adopting a child. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.