

Matt's television career kicked off in 1998, when he was filmed for a series of short stories about his work at Flamingo Land Zoo. He was then spotted by the BBC, and co-starred alongside Trude Mostue for two longer series on BBC2. The first was called Vets To The Rescue and was based at Chester Zoo. The second, Vets In The Country, filmed a year later, was based at Matt's practice outside York.
These went on air in 2000 and 2001.
Meanwhile Matt continued to film Zoo Vet. The short stories were expanded to longer half-hour programmes, and later evolved to move out of the Zoo and cover his exciting work at his practice as well. The fifth series of Zoo Vet at Large is screening on ITV this summer, and was filmed whilst Matt was writing his first book...