Career
Matt Jones began his writing career as a columnist for Doctor Who Magazine in 1995, before the following year having a novel, Bad Therapy, printed in Virgin Publishing"s range of licensed Doctor Who tie-in books, the New Adventures. He later wrote Beyond the Sun for the same series. His big break in television came in 1999, when he was the script editor on Red Production Company"s controversial drama series Queer as Folk, screened on Channel 4.
The same year, he script edited another Channel 4 drama produced by Red, the anthology series Love in the 21st Century, for which he also wrote one episode.
In 2003 he began working for Company Pictures, creating, writing and producing the crime drama Serious and Organised, starring Martin Kemp and again screened on Independent Television. Moving up to become an Executive Producer, he worked on another Company series for Independent Television, the Second World War-set Prisoner Of War. In April 2005, Jones was announced as one of the writers working on the second season of the British Broadcasting Corporation revival of hugely popular science-fiction series Doctor Who, fulfilling a childhood ambition to work on the programme of which he had long been a fan. His episodes, a two-parter with the titles "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit", were broadcast on 3 and 10 June 2006.
Jones also wrote the seventh episode of the second series of Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, called "Dead Manitoba Walking". In 2012 Jones wrote the second episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation Four television series Dirk Gently based on the novels by Douglas Adams.