Matt Cruse

Diary of a TV Scheduler

Satirical contribution to the BBC’s Book of the Future.

Book of the Future is a compilation of predictions and thoughts on life in the year 2020, originally submitted to the BBC in 2003. Out of hundreds of entries, researchers selected the top seventy-five most compelling pieces to provide a unique – and often hilarious – insight into the nation’s psyche. From the humorous to the heartfelt and the informed to the insane, Book of the Future challenges the pre-eminence of tea leaves and horoscopes in predicting our world in the (then) near future of 2020.ISBN-13: 978-0563487715
Release Date: 31 July 2003
Publisher: BBC Books

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The Watcher Self

94 mins | Colour | 2016

Matt Cruse’s debut feature is a disturbing psychological chiller about one woman’s descent into hell. When Cora attempts to block out the aftershock of a violent domestic incident, echoes from the past and a detached sexual encounter with an elusive stranger threaten to derail her tenuous state of mind, and she becomes increasingly dislocated from her surroundings. Is she going insane, or is it something else?Written and directed by Matt Cruse. Starring Karen French and Julian Shaw.Full credits at IMDb.WARNING: Contains mature content and deals with adult themes not suitable for younger viewers.

Matt Cruse is a writer and occasional filmmaker based in London. After spending several years roaming the corridors of the BBC with various degrees of creative success, he wrote and directed a feature film, The Watcher Self, which made no sense and no money. He initially achieved literary fame at the age of eleven-and-a-half when a poem was published in a nature magazine, though he has since forgotten the first line and, quite possibly, the title. Matt is now focused on long-form fiction and is currently writing his first novel.You can find Matt at @mattcruse.bsky.social on Bluesky, which he uses as a regular displacement activity for writing.

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