Short of patience with Doc

SLIPPERY Si was reduced to a pathetic wretch of man on Doctor Foster. His first attempt to top himself was the feeblest roadside suicide bid since Ian Beale’s.

Then Gemma left him a handy death kit…so much for the Hippocratic Oath.

He got to live, but only because the BBC don’t want to kill off the series. Why would they? It’s one of our most talked-about shows – even if some of us were saying “What a cop-out” and asking how skint, car-less Si got about so quickly, or how the head of a busy GP practice had so much free time...

While Gemma went back to save him, son Tom did a runner from both of them. What took the poor kid so long? It’s hard to work out why anyone was supposed to like either of these two creeps.

In this series, Simon lost his cockiness and Gemma her marbles.

Writer Mike Bartlett was always in her corner and tried (and failed) to make us feel for the loopy bint again. Now Si lives to cheat another day (Gemma’s new neighbour looked pretty hot).

And after she knocked up chicken pasta from scratch in under two minutes, Suranne Jones must be a shoe-in for Celebrity MasterChef.