Alex Carter makes comeback in Hollyoaks spin-off

Alex Carter makes comeback in Hollyoaks spin-off
Alex Carter makes comeback in Hollyoaks spin-off (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Hollyoaks' Alex Carter will make his big comeback to the soap via a new online spin-off series. Hollyoaks Freshers, a six-part series of 10-minute episodes, will launch on the internet next month. Former Emmerdale star Alex films his comeback scenes as Lee Hunter on the show, which features new Community College students Jamil, Doug and Leanne played by Sikander Malik, PJ Brennan and Jessica Forrest. The programme will follow the three new character's summer adventures - including a trip to a music festival - introducing them to fans before they join the regular cast of the Channel 4 show. Regulars Darren Osborne (Ashley Taylor Dawson), Charlotte Lau (Amy Yamazaki) and Dave Colburn (Elliot James Langridge) will also appear in the online show. As well as the episodes, fans will be able to view blogs, Facebook pages and Flickr photograph accounts for each of the new characters, following what they're getting up to in between shows and interacting with them. The series will begin on August 26, with episodes being uploaded every Thursday and Friday for three weeks. The show will also be aired as a one-hour special on E4 in the autumn. Hollyoaks previously created an online spin-off called The Morning After The Night Before, which aired last summer about the issue of binge drinking. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.