Matt Baker Talks Finding Freedom in Writing 'Professor T' Season 2
The most popular of the Walter Presents English-language remakes, Professor T, ends its second season run on PBS on October 8, 2023. This season has been more fun and gripping than the first, with series co-writer Matt Baker allowing the audience to dig into the main character, Professor Jasper Tempest, played by Ben Miller (Death in Paradise). A brilliant criminology professor with OCD, germaphobia, and a host of other issues, Season 2 of the series expanded from the original Belgian show from working as a consultant with the Cambridge police while deciding to go into therapy to explore his childhood traumas.
The therapy sessions are marvelous tete-a-tete battles of two brilliant and wildly different minds. The show continues to offer a quite comedic set up of characters and quirks juxtaposed against often tragic crimes and pulls it off.
In addition to co-writing Season 1 and writing Season 2 of Professor T, Baker also wrote the English language remake of Walter Presents favorite, Before We Die, starring Lesley Sharp, which aired two seasons on PBS. He's also the writer behind the James Nesbitt-Richard E Grant starrer Suspect (a remake of Walter Presents' Face to Face), which is streaming on BritBox, and Eagle Eye Drama’s first original English Language drama, Hotel Portofino, which premieres Season 2 on most PBS stations in mid-October 2023.
