BENIDORM RETURNS TO ITV 1 AND EXITE RADIO THIS WEEK

ITV1's award winning comedy Benidorm, returns to our screens on Friday for a fifth series. Our favourite holidaymakers are in for a shock this year as the Solana resort gets a new manager and she means business! Joyce Temple Savage (played by Loose Women's Sherrie Hewson) is on a mission to upgrade the Solana resort into a 4 star hotel - at all costs.

To mark the return of the show, Exite Radio will have a world exclusive on Friday, with the writer and creator of the show, Derren Litten, talking to Mark Nolan on the Breakfast show in the only interview he´ll be giving to any radio station. Not only that, there will be a signed copy of Derren Litten´s book, The Benidorm Guide to a Happy Holiday, up for grabs for one lucky winner.

To hear the interview and for your chance to win the book, tune in to Exite Radio all this week on 89.2fm on the Orihuela Costa, 93.1fm on the Costa Blanca, or online at www.exiteradio.com.

Then, watch ITV 1 on Friday for the first episode of the new series full of some great new characters and some old favourites, fun, frolics and more as the holiday makers return to the Solana, when, on the first day of the holidays, chaos reigns. Staff regulars Mateo (Jake Canuso) and Les/Lesley (Tim Healy) can barely keep control. Les's son Liam (Adam Gillen) is now the hotel ‘s hopeless handyman. When will the new manager appear? A coachload of angry holiday-makers arrives – including an irate Gavin (Hugh Sachs) and Noreen (Elsie Kelly): somehow, the travel company has lost all their luggage.