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Ashes to Ashes: Final Episode, 21 May 2010

With no warning, Friday became postmodern night, what with David Platt (of Coronation Street of course) questioning the nature of truth and reality and thinking creating a new witness for his mother will get her off the hook of murder. It was also as old-fashioned as ever as the supremacy of dastardly Tracey Barlow looks set to be overturned as the new improved David aims to fight these forces of evil.

All of this, coincidentally, looks like it was meant to be a prelude to the last episode of Ashes to Ashes. We all already knew that Gene - not Mike - Hunt was the Gary Cooper of 1970s and 1980s cop shows, but who'd have thought he was as good as that. For those of us who watched the show, I hope you've stopped crying now for those who haven't I don't want to spoil it - so watch it asap.

Emmerdale: 19 May 2010

Farmer of the Year and all round good, some might say smug, guy, John Barton, has been caught out kissing the blonde one from Hearsay in his car. By the way, she's playing the part of Edna Birch's grandaughter and we have been led to believe she is a lot younger than John, but I'm not so sure.

He was unlucky enough to have been spotted by Cain, and Cain then went on to blackmail him long enough to finally collect the money off him for the repairs he did to his land rover. To my mind, Cain shows what a decent character he is by only doing this to get what he thought was legally his. He has since told Moira, wife of aforementioned John, about the car shenanigans. In doing so, even an amateur like me knows he has cut off all future supplies of extortion money, and thus demonstrated his generosity of spirit.