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My sitcom Joshua


A teen sitcom about the dysfunctional family-friendly entertainment company called Joshua with started off as a subsidiary of Granada Media Children’s department in mid-1998 and based in the LWT region in London. The company established itself as a leader in the British animation industry, live-action film production, television, and theme parks.

After Granada executives like Gerry Robinson and Steve Morrison expressed the dislike of dysfunctional family movies and TV shows by Joshua, the ITV company spun off an Granada Media Children’s subsidiary into an independent owned company in late 2000.

After Joshua broke away from Granada Group, the company grew with a new offshoot animation company Dinal that would become a British Pixar during the 00s. Joshua’s biggest expansion came in the mid 00s when it developed a digital satellite platform for dysfunctional families called Joshua Digital. It included four in house pay TV channels like Joshua, Joshua Toons, Little Joshua and Cine Joshua. The main Joshua channel featured edgy and off beat kids shows for 8-15 year olds in the day and dysfunctional family shows at night. Joshua Digital also offered third party kids/family channels from Turner, Viacom and Disney as part of the basic subscription packages. Mainstream pay channels like Sky One, which aired shows with strong kids and family appeal would be part of the package. Alongside Cine Joshua, the premium channel line-up included Sky Movies which showed family movies, Disney Cinemagic and the Sky Sports channels that were popular with dads and kids. Other channels including CBBC and CBeebies were free to air on Joshua Digital.

On the back of the successful new ventures including a theme park in Leeds, Joshua was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2005.

However despite becoming an iconic family entertainment company during the 00s, Joshua’s chances of thriving in today’s global media and entertainment were spoilt by the 2007 acquisition of the Irish sport broadcaster Setanta Sports (which led to the channels added to Joshua Digital platform). It was a disastrous buy for a company as it happened before the credit crunch. Setanta Sports failed to bring in subscribers and this investment drag the company down the pan. On the 22nd June 2009 Joshua went into administration. After the company put the assets under the hammer on 20th July 2009 Setanta Sports channels closed down. On 30th July 2009 Joshua’s TV platform, its pay channels, TV and film studios and theme park were folded after falling to find the buyer.

The lead character in the show would be David Joshua, an autistic person from Camden in North London, he joined LWT at the age of 16 on work experience doing a youth chat/debate show F2F on the ill-fated Granada Talk TV channel. He went on become a researcher on CITV’s Gladiators Train 2 Win. When kids production houses of Granada, LWT and Yorkshire Tyne Tees was buried under the Granada Media Children’s department run by Steven Andrew, David wanted LWT’s production house to make a kids and family shows for other channels but at that stage, LWT’s productions slowed down so Andrew offered David to create an independent subsidiary of Granada Media Children’s, named after David’s surname. After the collapse of his media empire, he remortgaged his house to pay off debts. David has never potty trained so he wears nappies. I would play the role of David Joshua. To help David run his company, he recruited his older brother Martin Joshua who had worked for TCC and Trouble channels. After Joshua became an independent owned company, he moved back to Nigeria to start a new life Martin would be played by my friend Alex.

The opening titles for Joshua would be inspired by opening titles of 90s US teen sitcom Clueless and would use the song Sweet Love 2K as a theme music but with Sam Smith singing and sounding more like the Fierce version.


What does anyone like DuffDan, ScottGamer17 and Messup434 think of my ideas?
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