Littler is most notable for his role on the British soap opera
Hollyoaks in which he played
Max Cunningham, a role he held for 11 years before his character's death in June 2008. He decided to leave the show with his on/off-screen best friend
Sam "O.B." O'Brien, played by
Darren Jeffries, who left the show a few months earlier, and later returned for Max's departure. Max was one of the longest running characters on the show. On
ITV's
This Morning show, Matt revealed that he will be returning to
Hollyoaks to direct a few episodes. Since leaving Littler spent some years co-presenting many popular TV shows with Darren Jeffries these include
4Music programme
Orange RockCorps, The Versus Chart, Freshly Squeezed, T4 Stars, T4 on the Beach, RedBull Rivals, The Hollyoaks Music show and The Gadget Show. Other appearances have been on
Big Brother's Big Mouth and
Only Fools on Horses, also on many panel shows, such as Celebrity Juice, and 9 out of 10 cats. The Duo also hosted Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham, MineCon, RuneFest, and the popular Insomnia iSeries for many years. In 2007 Littler had a role in director Neil Carroll's
For King and Country, he also provided the voice of Arthur Glemore in TellTale Game's adaptation of The Game Of Thrones, as well as many other audio books and video games. Throughout 2013 he hosted
The British Soap Awards spin-off show on
ITV2 alongside Jeffries,
Zoe Hardman and
Joe Swash, presented a
Text Santa spin-off show for
ITV, and throughout 2014, guest presented
The Gadget Show numerous times for
Channel 5. Littler co-founded
Liverpool based production company, "Roll Camera" with Craig Forster. With the company Littler directed and produced a music video for the band GK and the Renegades. In his independent directing role, Littler wrote, directed and acted in a short film in 2008 called
Kidnap, which also starred a number of
Hollyoaks actors, as well as music videos for Esco Williams and other North West artists. Since then he has worked as a director for Channel 4 and
Channel 5, and produced pilots for
Lime Pictures and
Pulse Films. More Recently Littler has focused on producing and directing, working on several short form films for Channel 4, reality TV pilots for Lime Pictures, and working for a stint at ITV providing the voice of ITV2, whilst writing scripts for continuity announcements. Late in 2015 Littler joined London based innovation agency Brandwidth as head of moving image, the company makes content for the likes of Disney, Apple and others, at Brandwidth Littler has focused in Virtual Reality, and has produced content for many high-profile clients – Disney, Royal Caribbean, and The PGA Tour. He was present at Cannes Lions in 2016 at the Nokia Ozo stand, a company with which Brandwidth is a commercial partner. ==Awards==