
Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.
Latest articles by Patrick McLennan

Love Actually cast to reunite for Comic Relief 'sequel' – Red Nose Day Actually
By Patrick McLennan published

Lee Mead to return as Casualty character Lofty... on Holby City!
By Patrick McLennan published

Kim Woodburn calls Phillip Schofield a 'phoney' on This Morning
By Patrick McLennan published

John McCririck body-shames Coleen Nolan on Celebrity Big Brother
By Patrick McLennan published

See and hear who made the BBC's shortlist to represent the UK at Eurovision!
By Patrick McLennan published

Davina McCall and Kevin Kennedy tell This Morning how they were 'high-functioning' addicts
By Patrick McLennan published

Poldark vs Victoria and Midwife in new Period Drama National TV Awards category
By Patrick McLennan published

The Great British Bake Off supplies NINE of 2016's top 10 most-watched programmes
By Patrick McLennan published

Neighbours is off TV over Christmas (but continues on Facebook!)
By Patrick McLennan published

Carol Vorderman: I prefer to be single at Christmas so I can 'have a few occasionals'
By Patrick McLennan published

Outnumbered cast 'so happy' to be returning for Christmas special
By Patrick McLennan published

FIRST LOOK: Martin Kemp returns for Birds of a Feather Christmas special
By Patrick McLennan published

Stacey Solomon smashes it on The Chase and Twitter was impressed
By Patrick McLennan published

Eddie Redmayne 'chuffed' to be asked to star in Children in Need sketch
By Patrick McLennan published

'Lifelong fan' David Walliams to host a Dame Shirley Bassey Christmas special on BBC1
By Patrick McLennan published

Jewellery worth £1million stolen while Simon Cowell and family slept, court hears
By Patrick McLennan published

Louis Walsh sends girl group home TWICE on The X Factor
By Patrick McLennan published

Dawn French to host ITV kids' talent show Little Big Shots: 'I LOVE everything about it'
By Patrick McLennan published

Hit sitcom Not Going Out to return in 2017 with fully-formed family
By Patrick McLennan published
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