Patrick Lenton

Melbourne

(he/him) Journalist.✨author✨. ‘In Spite of Everything’, coming out in 2025. Subscribe to 'nonsense newsletter'. Represented Key People Literary Management

Articles

Can John Mulaney’s absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late-night TV?

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Patrick Lenton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In one of his many (often savage) appearances on late-night shows, comedian Martin Short told host Jimmy Fallon, “Let me just say, there is no one better than you at milking a living off a dying medium.” For a while now, the beloved genre of American late-night television has been perceived to be decline.
Space has a PR problem. It’s time to make it great again

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Patrick Lenton

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Space has a PR problem. It’s time to make it great again

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Patrick Lenton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They’re blasting Katy Perry into space. Not because her last album bombed so hard that we’re exiling her but for far more mundane, publicity-based reasons. The pop star is joining the coming launch of the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, sending an all-female crew to the edge of space, perhaps searching for the “woman’s world” where people want to buy her album.
Reacher is a show about a very large man punching his way through crime - and it’s perfect

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Patrick Lenton

What if there was a man who was substantially larger than other men? This is the big question posed to us by the philosophers behind Amazon Prime’s original series Reacher. Based on the (many) Jack Reacher books by the crime author Lee Child, the show (which just wrapped its third season) follows the adventures of a mountain of man-flesh who uses his beefy body, brawny mind and slab of moral fortitude to kick and punch other men, and solve military crimes.
new Netflix series proves the US is weirdly obsessed with Aussie culture

1 month ago | msn.com | Patrick Lenton

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new Netflix series proves the US is weirdly obsessed with Aussie culture

1 month ago | msn.com | Patrick Lenton

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Comparison of New Water Plants Plans: Ashland - Grants Pass

1 month ago | theashlandchronicle.com | Sam Levin |Patrick Lenton |Dan Sabbagh |Pjotr Sauer

Comparison of New Water Plants Plans: Ashland – Grants Passby David RunkelThe cities of Ashland and Grants Pass both plan to begin construction this summer on new multi-million water treatment plants. Here are some of the differences between the two projects:WATER RATE INCREASESAshland – Five13.5 percent increases this decade have been proposed by a consultant. Council decision scheduled for April 15. Grants Pass – Four 7 percent increases have been put into effect.
Hill Crest Road in Medford Closed for Road Repairs

1 month ago | theashlandchronicle.com | Patrick Lenton |Dan Sabbagh |Pjotr Sauer |Andrew Roth

Knife River Materials began paving Hillcrest Road this afternoon and will continue until 7:00 p.m. They will resume work on Wednesday, March 26, from approximately 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.Motorists are encouraged to avoid the area and take alternate routes. During this time, eastbound traffic will remain open for local business only, while westbound traffic will be detoured. Expect delays of up to 20 minutes. The road is expected to fully reopen after 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
The Residence: new Netflix series proves the US is weirdly obsessed with Aussie culture

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Patrick Lenton

There is nothing more lazy and pointless and intellectually bankrupt than making sweeping generalisations about an entire country – but America is too stupid to understand this rule, as we all know, therefore we have Netflix’s The Residence on our screens. Shondaland’s miniseries is a fun murder-mystery whodunnit set in the White House, where the crime in question takes place during a state dinner.
Sam Pang Tonight: Australia’s newest talk show is haunted by the spectre of Rove McManus

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Patrick Lenton

For a man of such average height, Rove McManus casts a long shadow over Australian TV. Since Rove Live ended in 2009 – probably the last example of a successful talkshow on our screens – the TV landscape has become unrecognisable: the internet got invented, streaming took over, and televisions themselves got bigger but, conversely, much flatter. McManus also manages to loom over Network 10’s new talkshow gamble, Sam Pang Tonight.