
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

Lee Carter's evidence in Lucy murder will unravel EastEnders character's life
By Patrick McLennan published

Watch 'Once Upon a Weatherfield, Happy Emmerdale After' trailer
By Patrick McLennan published

The Kumars star Vincent Ebrahim to play a villain in Hollyoaks
By Patrick McLennan published

Stephanie Cole rules out a return to Coronation Street
By Patrick McLennan published

Jim Davidson reveals talks with Channel 5 to bring back Big Break
By Patrick McLennan published

EastEnders' Terry Alderton: 'I reckon something's going to come out of the closet with Terry'
By Patrick McLennan published

Two men cleared of GBH in ex Casualty actor Clive Mantle ear bite trial
By Patrick McLennan published

BBC commissions fourth series of Call The Midwife and Death In Paradise
By Patrick McLennan published

Kylie Minogue: Michael Hutchence 'opened my eyes to the world'
By Patrick McLennan published

Clive Mantle: 'I looked down on the floor and my ear was lying on the carpet
By Patrick McLennan published
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