Benidorm may have ceased being my cup of sangria a long time ago but fair's fair, the latest series finale was a cracker. It's unlikely you'll ever see Joan Collins, Rustie Lee and The Krankies together on the same bill again though. Well, unless they're called as character witnesses at the next Operation Yewtree trial.

There's a bit of a brutalist vibe about the Hotel Solana, the charmless edifice around which the action swings in Benidorm.

Derren Litten's sunburnt comedy closed its sixth run with a cast list that included Joan Collins, Janette Krankie, Rustie Lee and Mick from Brookside, not a line-up I thought I'd ever see in my lifetime.

Yet that bizarre bit of casting was as good as it got, because Benidorm is in need of a storyline on which to hang its rum collection of swingers, scallywags and Spaniards.

Collins made the most of her cameo as the Solana's boss, throwing a strop because manager Joyce had the temerity to get the hotel upgraded but the over-riding feeling was of characters treading water in the shallow end of the Solana's pool - someone needs to throw them a lifebelt because this show is sinking fast.