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Emmerdale: 12 November 2009

Sally Spode, the single white female who knows how to write church letters, really doesn't like Laurel. If she's not trying to steal Ashley and the kids' affections, she's trying to set fire to her at the first opportunity. Last week, she fiddled while Laurel burned at bonfire night and last night poor old Laurel ended up stuck in the church again. By the way, didn't she get locked in there when she was pregnant too? Anyway, that time, if it did happen, she didn't have to contend with a portable heater being pushed up against a curtain too. Dastardly Sally knows how bad Laurel is at spotting she is on fire, as evidenced on bonfire night, and used this knowledge for her own evil purposes.

Eastenders: 12 November 2009

So Max is coping with the credit crunch by pulling insurance scams, but he's still reluctant to hand over a big wodge of money to the Tree for Trina campaign. The bill for this tree is apparently hundreds, which leads us at Tellyjelly headquarters to question how Abbie came up with this figure. Come to that, why hasn't anyone asked her how she knows so much about memorial trees.

Let's put this implausible storyline aside for a moment to consider the main one last night: that Ian thinks Tanya has been flirting with him. It was strange I suppose, for Ian and the viewers, that she gave him a make-over at her home rather than in the spacious and usually empty salon, but really, the actor who plays Ian deserves some credit for enduring this nonsense for so long. Give him a break writers - let him be nice, even and considerate for a full episode.

Coronation Street: 12 November 2009

Like Roy, I've also found it's best to confront known murderers directly. You have to let them know you know their secret, and then stand outside their window in the dark and the rain just to make sure they understand they have to go to the police with their terrible secret. Ok it's a bit of a gamble that they don't decide to carry on murdering, but that's the chance we have to take.

Who better than Roy though when it comes to embodying a conscience. He might not look or sound like Jiminy Cricket, and Tony Gordon is nothing like Pinocchio, but the Ray Mears of the cobbles is proving he is as heroic as ever.