Jonathan Maitland

He was also one of the reporters for Watchdog and presented a spin off called The Big Dinner In 1999 he was poached by ITV to present BAFTA winning current affairs show Tonight and the BAFTA nominated House of Horrors, the first show to secretly film and expose rogue traders and builders.

Dead Sheep, about the Geoffrey Howe speech which led to Margaret Thatcher's downfall, was staged at the Park Theatre in London in 2015.

"[7] Maitland's other radio play, The Remco, about the corrupt machinations of the committees which make huge pay awards to City fat cats, aired in 2018 and started by Deborah Findlay and James Purefoy.

[8] Act One centred on the February 2016 dinner party at Johnson's home in Islington with Michael Gove, after which he decided to campaign for Vote Leave.

The second act posited that Johnson resigned as Prime Minister in 2022 (this actually happened in real life) and is set in 2029 when he makes another run at the leadership, based on taking the UK back into the EU.

[citation needed] His play with music about Wilko Johnson, the guitarist and founder of the band Dr Feelgood, premiered at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch on 1 February 2024 and received positive reviews.

[14] Maitland's play How to Survive Your Mother, based on the memoir of the same name, premieres at the King's Head Theatre in London on October 23rd 2024.

[15] Maitland part funded Chris Morris's debut feature film Four Lions (2010) in which he has a cameo as a newsreader.