Coronation Street and Emmerdale faces pop into Doctors

Former Coronation Street actress Susie Blake and former Emmerdale actor Andy Devine are to appear in BBC One daytime saga Doctors.

Susie Blake, who played Rovers Return boss Bev Unwin in the Weatherfield saga, is to appear in an episode to be screened in October while Andy Devine, the scruffy alcoholic Shadrach Dingle of the village formerly known as Beckindale, will feature in an August episode.

Susie is currently filming with Doctors which she guest stars playing Sheila Bartlett, a patient Kevin assumes is a domestic violence victim as she has bruises on her. It turns out her husband is responsible but not in the way that Kevin thinks. While Andy plays Dennis Dowling, a homeless man who is ganged up upon by a group of thugs he later turns up at The Mill, but the help issued isn’t seemingly something he’s keen on.

Doctors returns to BBC One next week, airing at 1.45pm on BBC One, and is simulcast on BBC One HD.