On 13 August 1988, van Hoogstraten made an extended appearance on the British television discussion programme After Dark, alongside Marie Jahoda and Owen Oyston, among others.

Sitting Targets, an episode in the BBC Two Screen Two anthology series (19 March 1989), was a fictionalised account of the legal victory won by the actress Leslee Udwin against van Hoogstraten after his harassment of her and her fellow tenants in their Rent Act-protected apartment block in west London, which he had bought.
Udwin played a fictionalised version of herself, alongside Jonathan Hyde as evil landlord Vincent Stott.

In the song "Sheriff Fatman", the anti-hero of the song is an unscrupulous businessman, "infamous for fifteen minutes", who is compared with "Nicholas van Whats-his-face", considered by many critics to be a transparent reference to van Hoogstraten.
On 13 August 1988, van Hoogstraten made an extended appearance on the British television discussion programme After Dark, alongside Marie Jahoda and Owen Oyston, among others.
Sitting Targets, an episode in the BBC Two Screen Two anthology series (19 March 1989), was a fictionalised account of the legal victory won by the actress Leslee Udwin against van Hoogstraten after his harassment of her and her fellow tenants in their Rent Act-protected apartment block in west London, which he had bought. Udwin played a fictionalised version of herself, alongside Jonathan Hyde as evil landlord Vincent Stott.
In the song "Sheriff Fatman", the anti-hero of the song is an unscrupulous businessman, "infamous for fifteen minutes", who is compared with "Nicholas van Whats-his-face", considered by many critics to be a transparent reference to van Hoogstraten.
Nicholas van Hoogstraten