Jonathan Creek to return in 2010

Jonathan Creek to return in 2010
Jonathan Creek to return in 2010 (Image credit: BBC)

Sheridan Smith has revealed that she and Alan Davies are to be reunited to make more Jonathan Creek. The Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps star played the crime-solving magic man's new sidekick Joey Ross in the New Year special, and is about to start work on another special - entitled The Judas Tree - to air next Easter. Sheridan said: "I just got the script for Jonathan Creek, I am so excited, it is going to be brilliant." She added: "I loved working with Alan, he is so lovely." But the 27-year-old actress - who is dating Gavin And Stacey star James Corden - confessed she didn't enjoy everything about making the last Jonathan Creek episode, in which her character nearly drowned in a booby-trapped bath. She said: "It was horrible, I hated it. They'd make me go under water to film me, I had an oxygen mask on to help me breathe but when it was time to film I had to take a deep breath and then take it off. It was so scary."

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.