EastEnders (BBC1); Bomber Crew (Ch4): WILL someone please tell Dennis Rickman to choose between his teenage girlfriend and his sister?

The tiresome threesome has been going on for far too long and now I don't really care whose bed he finally decides to lie in. Not that the most gorgeous man in the square has much of a choice.

Zoe never stops whining and has lost that youthful spark and energy that ever made her attractive. Of course, all young girls get infatuated with handsome guys but what does the brooding barman see in her drippy character?

The alternative is the slightly psychotic Sharon, who has had a look of the bunny boiler about her in recent weeks. Since returning to the Square, Sharon has worked her way round most of the East End's men, so it's no surprise that all she's got left is her step-brother.

Since Dennis got back from his trip - wasn't he meant to be deciding what he wanted? What a waste of time that was - Sharon has smouldered in her unique way, looking like some mad Ivana Trump wannabe.

You'd never believe her step-mum was a hairdresser - why doesn't Chrissie steal her bottle of peroxide before her hair turns into a bale of straw and falls out in clumps during her next catfight?

But the main reason we need to see an end to the Sharon-Dennis-Zoe affair is so Letitia Dean can smile.

That woman has lips that most Hollywood stars would die for and not a scene passes when she doesn't pout like a guppy at Grimsby docks.

Who needs Botox when your mouth is bigger than a lovechild's of Mick Jagger and Angelina Jolie?

For Letitia's own sake and that of her future acting prospects, the writers have to give her another emotion to conjure with, otherwise the wind might change and that fish face will stick forever.

Over on Ch4 there were more serious matters than love affairs to be dealt with.

Bomber Crew took five grandchildren of Second World War pilots and put them through the training faced by their ancestors.

Over the next four weeks, the young people will be brought up to speed and eventually sent out to complete their own mock bombing raid.

This isn't the first time that programme makers have set out to teach the younger generation that they don't know they're born.

What will make this series work is the personal interest the young recruits have in recreating what their grandfathers went through.

Not only do they have to get to grips with the technicalities of flying a plane but also the emotional realisation of what their granddads did in the war and whether they would really be able to do the same.

Published: 30/11/2004