Soap Spoilers! Pinching! Death! Planning Permission!

Hello readers. Have a good week? If our frighteningly accurate hecklerscopes are correct, then most of you are either dead or feeling a very real sense of shame and self loathing. Either is fine with us. For those of you still here, let's look at what's going to happen in Soapland this week.

Yep, you guessed it, Eastenders first and before we begin, we'd like to announce some exciting news which may not be true but we'll share it with you anyway.

Heather will be brutally murdered by Ben! hecklerspray writer Robin Darke predicted that she'd be killed by George Michael who would then launch a campaign of terror culminating in him pissing all over Arthur's bench, but we'll settle for Ben being all stabby.

Characters are  leaving!  Yes – Mo, Mandy, Afia, Amira, Tyler, Anthony, Billy and Lola are all for the chop and this means we'll get loads more fresh talent and stop getting ghosts of Eastenders past, returning whenever they feel like it. What? Oh….

Sharon is returning.

Anyway,  Jane left last week under a cloud of mascara and snotters and no-one cares as they're all too busy being self centered and fictional. The Bland Brothers Tyler and Anthony owe money to Derek for reasons we've already forgotten and he tells them to either cock it or walk it. No. Sorry, he tells them to help him out in committing a crime or he'll break their spindly little legs. Then Patrick gets involved and then Michael and then the Police and it's all rather tedious. Janine steps in and offers to pay Derek off and we long for the old days when she'd have laughed and happily skipped over their corpses while hurling abuse at passing pigeons.

Shirley convinces soon to be murderer Ben to visit Phil in prison and of course Phil tells him to retract his statement and he'll forget about the whole thing. Probably not the 'gay' thing but the blackmail thing anyway. Ben says he'll dance on Phil's grave when he dies and we really hope it's in some sort of German slap folk dancing.

Roxy's little angel Amy pinches George at playgroup and Whitney decides to have it out with the parents (as she's now qualified in child psychology after two minutes working in a nursery making rice maracas), telling Roxy and Jack it's their fault for squabbling so much. They grass her up to her boss and Whitney thinks she'll lose her job. She doesn't. Those preschool pasta faces won't stick themselves to the paper – she's a valued member of staff.

Elsewhere, Lucy interrupts a passionate moment between Ian and Mandy as she continues to compete with Mandy for her Dad's affection which is quite creepy really. Heather gets engaged (DEATH IS COMING HEATHER) and Fat Boy thinks Whitney is cheating on him because she probably is.

Next we shuffle off to Coronation Street where Frank's trial begins and Carla takes the stand. Oh it's exciting isn't it? Both her and Peter deny having an affair until photographs are shown of them kissing and then Leanne wonders if she can ever forgive the insipid alcoholic.  But the burning question is- DOES HE GET SENT DOWN FOR RAPE??? The answer to that is-  NO HE DOESN'T. Cleared of all charges. So we hear anyway. Our 'sources' are very unreliable.

With Becky gone, Tracy is determined to make it work with Steve but he tells her that he never loved her and in fact still loves Becky.  She then returns home to find that Owen has turned No.13 into two self contained flats and threatens to tell the council as he didn't get planning permission. Oh shut up.

Finally, we're going to visit Casualty as apparently it's also a soap. Who knew?  After taking on her sister's two children, someone called Linda tries to fit them in around her working life and gets help from someone who we know even less about.  An old lady called Doris has Alzheimer's and is attacked leaving Lloyd to try and figure out what happened. Then Keith returns complaining on neck pain and Zoe thinks it could be caused by the time he was forcibly restrained by Sam after he threatened Dylan in the ED? What does any of that mean?

Glad that's over? So are we and as promised here's another soap star making themselves look like an idiot. Here's Adam Rickitt all naked and ending his singing career before it even started.