- Matthew Baylis
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Matthew Baylis (b. Nottingham, 1971) is a British novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and spent most of his early years in Southport, Merseyside.
A former storyliner on BBC 1’s flagship drama series EastEnders, he also adapted Catrin Collier’s 1930’s-set novel Hearts of Gold for the screen, and this was broadcast as a two-parter on BBC 1 in July 2003.[1]
He subsequently went with his former EastEnders boss, Matthew Robinson, to Kenya, where he co-created, co-storylined and trained a team of local writers for a six-part drama pilot.[2] Robinson later invited him to Cambodia, to do the same on Taste of Life, a major Cambodian drama series funded by the BBC World Service Trust and the Department for International Development.[3]
Continuing his involvement in Cambodia, Baylis scripted Palace of Dreams, a BBCWST-funded romantic comedy film, aimed at younger audiences;[4] Vanished – a film-noir thriller, made by Khmer Mekong Films, which showed to great acclaim across Cambodia in 2009, and has been shown at the Pyongyang International Film Festival;[5] and he co-created, and wrote scripts for AirWaves, a contemporary drama series funded by the U.S. government, which is currently showing on Cambodia’s TV channel CTN.[6]
The author of two novels, Stranger than Fulham[7] and The Last Ealing Comedy[8] he has been the television critic for the Daily Express since September 2005 – where he writes as Matt Baylis – and also written on television and other subjects for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and Daily Mail.[9]
He is married and lives in North London, with his wife and son.
References
- ^ International Movie Database – Hearts of Gold, BBC One, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363667/
- ^ United Nations Kenya http://www.un-kenya.org/Heart&Soul/Heart&Soul.htm.
- ^ Monroe, Jo. "Soap and Charity" The Observer, London, Sunday 8 August 2004. Retrieved on 6 October 2010
- ^ BBC World Service Trust http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/whatwedo/where/asia/cambodia/2008/11/081107_cambodia_palace_of_dreams.shtml
- ^ Variety review of Vanished
- ^ http://www.cambodiafilms.com/airwaves.html
- ^ Stranger than Fulham Baylis, Matthew (1999) Chatto & Windus, London. ISBN 0701168579
- ^ The Last Ealing Comedy Baylis, Matthew (2003) Chatto & Windus, London. ISBN 0701168587
- ^ Baylis, Matthew. "Looking Back At Anger" . Daily Express. London. Friay 24 September 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- British novelists
- British journalists
- British screenwriters
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