Michael Attwell is the managing director of MAP TV.

He was the chairman of BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which awards the British Academy Awards, from 2002 to 2004. He was chairman of the National Organisation for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (UK) from 2004 until its merger with Mencap in 2011, and is now a trustee of the Mencap / NOFAS Board.

Michael was formerly a senior commissioning executive at Channel 4, the BBC, and Five. Amongst the many successful programmes he commissioned were: Equinox, Big Breakfast, Two Fat Ladies, Nick Broomfield's Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam, and Anne Frank Remembered (which won an Oscar and the International Emmy). He pioneered property programmes in the UK with Hot Property and the BAFTA-nominated House Doctor, and he established Five's much-celebrated Arts programmes.

He set up MAP TV in 2001.