Matthew Hall (writer)  Matthew Hall (born 1 May 1967) is a British screenwriter and novelist. He is sometimes credited as M. R. Hall.  Hall was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford (1985–88) where he graduated in law. He was called to the Bar in 1990 and practised as a barrister at 5, King's Bench Walk before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. He began his television career writing episodes of "Kavanagh QC". In 1996/7 he created and wrote the legal series "Wing and a Prayer" which ran for two seasons and was the first drama production aired by the newly formed Channel 5. The series was nominated for a BAFTA in the best TV series category in 1997. Hall's other screen credits include episodes of BBC1's "Dalziel and Pascoe", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", " After Hours", "Life Support" and "Holby City". ITV credits include episodes of "A&E", "Foyle's War", "Blue Murder" and the 2003 television film "Loving You". He was the co-creator and lead writer of the BBC1 series "New Street Law" which aired in 2006/7. Hall created and wrote the TV series "Keeping Faith". The first season was produced in 2017 by Vox Pictures for BBC Wales and S4C. It was made in both the English and Welsh languages. The Welsh language version is entitled, "Un Bore Mercher" ("One Wednesday Morning"), and was first broadcast on S4C on 5 November 2017. In May 2018, during an interview with "BBC Breakfast", Eve Myles (who stars as the eponymous "Faith") said that Hall was writing the scripts for a second season. Subsequently "Keeping Faith" was shown on BBC1, beginning on 10 July 2018. Matthew Hall received a Welsh BAFTA for the series, as best writer, in 2018. The second season was commissioned later that year and first aired in Welsh (with English sub-titles) on S4C on 12 May 2019 and in English on BBC One in July–August 2019. Hall has hinted that a third season is not beyond the bounds of possibility, and according to an announcement in January 2020 a third season is due to air in October 2020. CBC, together with Morwyn Brebner, has made an eight-part series, "Coroner", based on Hall's "The Coroner" series of books (the "Jenny Cooper" novels), and starring Serinda Swan as the titular character, which was aired in winter 2019, after production had begun in summer 2018.