News and Media

The latest updates, interviews and press highlights featuring Matt Baker.

Radio Tines: Crime Drama Finally Gets UK Release Date

A new sun-kissed drama from the creator of Hotel Portofino and Professor T...

26th March 2026

Drama Quarterly: Cooking Up Crime

A Taste for Murder star Warren Brown and writer Matt Baker tell DQ about dishing up this crime show...

2nd March 2026

BritBox's New Sun Drenched Murder Mystery

A Taste For Murder is an original six-part crime procedural from Matt Baker debuting April 7th on BritBox...

26h February 2026

Matt Baker Happy Playing Game of Patience

Matt Baker helped bring Patience to our screens in 2025 and is now back with a Novel of his own...

16th February 2026

Chanel 4 Renews Patience For a Third Series

Patience is returning to Channel 4 for a third series, following the success of the first two runs...

9th February 2026

Capri Makes an Irresistible Setting for Crime Fiction

Matt's debut novel A Taste For Murder has released and is available for purchase...

15th January 2026

Patience Renewed for a Second Series

Patience is returning to Channel 4 for a second series, following the success of the first seriers...

15th May 2025

New Show Patience Pays Off For Channel 4

Channel 4’s biggest drama of 2025 so far and averaged 4.2 million viewers returns for a second series...

4th April 2025

BritBox Behind Italian Crime Procedural

BritBox has greenlit A Taste for Murder, a six-part crime procedural from Matt Baker and Eagle Eye Drama/ITV Studios...

15th January 2026

Creator and Writer Matt Baker on Hotel Portofino S3

In this Assignment X interview, Hotel Portofino creator Matt Baker talks through the darker stakes of Season 3...

24th August 2024

Channel 4 Announces New Crime Drama Patience

Channel 4 announced Patience, a new six-part crime drama set in York, starring Laura Fraser and Ella Maisy Purvis...

20th June 2024

Deadline: New Crime Drama Coming to Channel 4/PBS

Deadline reports that Patience is expanding its international footprint, with more buyers coming on board across europe...

27th February 2024

TellyVision: Interview on Hotel Portofino's Inspiration

'Hotel Portofino’s Matt Baker talks about the show’s inspiration and it's modern parallels...

16th October 2023

TellyVisions: Matt Baker Talks Writing on Professor T

Matt Baker highlights the freedom the format gives a writer letting him lean into the show’s distinctive tone...

8th October 2023

Drama Quarterly: Matt Baker Talks Hotel Portofino

Matt Baker talks about the inspiration for the Italian Riviera period drama and what drew him to its world...

21st January 2022