A drama producer and script executive with international experience, Matthews will work with the HBO Europe original production centres in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania and local creative teams on their original series and miniseries development as well as adaptations from international formats.
Matthews most recently was with Octagon Films in Dublin where he produced four seasons of RTE’s award-winning gangster series Love/Hate and was Consulting Producer on all three seasons of Showtime’s The Borgias starring Jeremy Irons. His prior experience includes script editing the BBC’s drama series Silent Witness and co-creating and producing Urban Gothic for UK’s Channel 5, as well as teaching at the NYU Tisch School’s Writing for Television programme.
In a statement, Antony Root, EVP Original Programming and Production HBO Europe said: “Steve brings over 20 years of development and production experience across multiple drama genres which I believe will be invaluable as we expand our output at HBO Europe.”
HBO Europe, headquartered in Budapest, operates basic and premium channels to 15 countries in Europe including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
