---
name: "Matthew McGough"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matthew-mcgough"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:19:25.617970+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Matthew McGough

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1626496/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1654249

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Matthew McGough is a writer, journalist and screenwriter. He served as a legal consultant and staff writer on the NBC series *Law & Order* from 2006 to 2010, contributing as writer, teleplay and story on multiple episodes.

He graduated from Williams College and Fordham Law School, and worked as a law clerk to a federal judge. As a teenager he was a bat boy for the New York Yankees for two seasons. His 2004 memoir *Bat Boy: Coming of Age with the New York Yankees* formed the basis of the CBS series *Clubhouse* (2004–2005), on which he also worked as writer and producer.

McGough has published non-fiction in *The Atlantic*, *The New York Times*, *The Los Angeles Times* and *The Boston Globe*. His journalism includes true-crime pieces that received Los Angeles Press Club awards.

*Sources: matthewmcgough.com, imdb.com, lawandorder.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Writer, Story, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/matthew-mcgough