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Patrick Lenton

Patrick Lenton is a writer. His romcom, In Spite of Everything, comes out in May 2025.

September 2024

  • A crowd wearing the team colours of red and white

    Sorry, Sydney, I think it’s my fault you lost the AFL grand final

    Patrick Lenton
    Was my football-mad family having breakfast with me the flap of the butterfly’s wing that cursed the Swans’ chances?

May 2024

  • Patrick Lenton in Bowral for the season 3 shindig. ‘I spent most of my time indulging in some Bridgerton role-play: mainly, spreading gossip.’

    A great idea or a new level of hell? My time at Netflix’s week-long Bridgerton party

    Why did the streaming giant put on a regency-themed party in Bowral, New South Wales? Would I find a husband? Would I survive that many influencers?

March 2024

  • The cast of season two of Alone Australia: Rick, Mike, Leanne, Chace, Suzan, Tamika, Krzysztof, Andreas, Jack and Jason

    Alone Australia returns – this time to wild, treacherous New Zealand: ‘The dangers are upscaled’

    Applications to be on the gruelling reality TV hit doubled – but the 10 contestants face all new threats including avalanches and earthquakes

January 2024

  • Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi in Our Flag Means Death

    ‘Unhinged – in a good way’: Our Flag Means Death was cancelled. Its fans are fighting back

    A campaign to save the Taika Waititi show has bought billboards, hired planes and raised tens of thousands of dollars. It’s the latest flex from TV fandoms – but it doesn’t always work
  • ‘Two months in and we now have a boat full of influencers who are trapped together on the high seas’: TikTok’s new favourite reality show.

    Explain it to me quickly
    TikTok’s nine-month cruise: what is it and and why can’t I stop watching?

    A cruise trip advertised as the longest in the world has become its own reality show, with passengers regularly going viral for their video diaries. But is anything actually … happening?
  • Ash the border collie, named for Ash Barty, in Muster Dogs season two

    Muster Dogs returns – with border collies instead of kelpies: ‘It’s like comparing Holdens to Fords’

    Season two opens on pregnant Debbie, whose litter is sent to five graziers tasked with training the puppies over a year

March 2023

  • Rescue greyhound Basil walking his regular stretch of suburban footpath

    Just like my anxious rescue greyhound Basil, I too need the comfort of a tiny world

    Patrick Lenton
    Basil’s repetitive trots around the neighbourhood give me lockdown flashbacks but the safety in that is also nourishing

December 2022

  • Best TV shows composite. From Left to Right: Kitty Flanagan in Fisk, an ABC comedy, Baby Jacinda, Oly (Nathalie Morris), Bluey, Bingo, Bandit (Dad) and Chilli (Mum), Mark Coles Smith as Jay Swan in Mystery Road Origin and ABC TV Muster Dogs series 1 cast, crew and dogs in action

    Summer essentials
    The Tourist, Byron Baes, Muster Dogs and more: the 14 best Australian TV shows of 2022

  • (L-R) Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig as Bernard Black, Manny and Fran in British comedy Black Books.

    Stream team
    Black Books: a hysterical bookshop sitcom about the stupidity of being alive

November 2022

  • Actor Kit Connor What’s On Faces of 2022 - Kit is in a new Netflix drama, Heartstopper.

    Whether it’s Kit Connor or Harry Styles, forcing a celebrity to come out is not progress

    Patrick Lenton
    Demands that the likes of Heartstopper star Connor, Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift come out stem from a regressive belief that there is a right or wrong way to be queer

October 2022

  • This photo released by HBO shows Kit Harington as Jon Snow, left, and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in a scene from "Game of Thrones," which premiered its eighth season on Sunday. (HBO via AP)

    Is it OK to lie to your partner to avoid TV spoilers? I hope so, or I’m a monster

    Patrick Lenton
  • Close-Up Portrait Of Dog Wearing Sweater And Knit Hat Against Green Background<br>GettyImages-1138334773

    Adopting a sweet, skittish rescue dog has taught me how to manage my own fizzing brain

    Patrick Lenton

April 2022

  • Curled red paper shaped as a heart that is broken

    Guardian Australia Reads
    Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid

    A writer wonders about a happily ever after. Nostalgia rises after years of rapid tech change. And cancer survivors manage treatment during lockdown

March 2022

  • Cai Leplaw, Sarah Tangye, Nathan Favro in episode 102 of Byron Baes. Cr. Paul A. Broben/Netflix © 2022

    Byron Baes review – a compelling, compulsive and kind of terrifying binge

  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer cast in season one: Anthony Head as Giles, Sarah Michelle Geller as Buffy, Nicholas Brendon as Xander and Alyson Hannigan as Willow

    ‘If the apocalypse comes, beep me!’: Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 25

February 2022

  • Couple kissing in front of orange shutter

    Selling romance and erotica books during my breakup taught me about heartbreak

    Patrick Lenton
  • Bake Off cast: from Grandmother Chaos to some guy with a hat

    The recipe for a perfect Bake Off cast: from Grandmother Chaos to guy in hat

January 2022

  • Liv Hewson at the Yellowjackets premiere in Los Angeles, 2021.

    Yellowjackets star Liv Hewson: ‘Being adored by gay people on Twitter is all I’ve ever wanted’

    Showtime’s thriller-comedy is a huge success, and the 26-year-old Australian its breakout star. What’s it like being the fan favourite?

December 2021

  • An Australian Christmas composite

    Australian Christmas songs ranked by how baffling they are to literally anyone else

    It wouldn’t be an Aussie Xmas without sun, prawns and native birds. Perhaps too many native birds. Patrick Lenton investigates

November 2021

  • Rear view of couple on red chair in house with cardboard boxes

    Living with my partner, I’m learning a lot by seeing myself through her eyes

    Patrick Lenton
    If scientists ever want to create a stress test for a new relationship, the burden of a double Ikea Hasvik wardrobe is the place to start
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