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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 10h

Seeking EXEC PRODUCER with experience for home-invasion #Horror film about latchkey kids left to their own devices on #Halloween Night. I'm a BBC #Writer who wants to shoot the proof-of-concept short. Please let me know if you're interested! #ExecutiveProducer #Producer #ProductionCompany #Studio

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Screenwriter here looking for #Work! I've written for BBC numerous times, Channel 4, CBeebies, BFI, developed projects with BAFTA-winning #ProductionCompanies and big-name #Screen talent. Jack Thorne described me in an awards acceptance speech as "a tremendous talent". (1 / 2 posts) #Scriptwriting

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HELLOOOO, #Producers & #ProductionCompanies!! I have been GAGGING to write-direct a new #ShortFilm for aaages now!!! I need an experienced #ExecProducer to help me bring it to life. I am in early discussions with well-known #Actor friends. (1 / 2 posts) #ExecutiveProducer youtu.be/CgtIq7rKH4k?...

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please might my Actor / Director / Producer / Script Editor et al Friends have time to read and give general feedback (specific notes still welcomed) plus overall impressions on my new 60-minute TV thriller script? I need to complete a redraft and make sure everything's working within a week. 🙏

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No way I can compete with the major poetry publishers who get collections stocked by bricks-and-mortar bookshops But I do have word of mouth and all you wonderful people here on Bluesky, pushing the numbers of readers of Whatever You Do, Just Don't far beyond the sales of the big boys. Thank you!

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American / Canadian #TV #Film people (#Producers, #Showrunners, #Writers, et al): please might you share advice on breaking through or even consider me for a #Writing role? Neurodivergent / Disabled British #Screenwriter here who's written for BBC, Channel 4, British Film Institute. (1 / 2 posts)

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My latest S2 episode ("Waffle's Pumpkin", the HALLOWEEN special!! 🎃 ) of Waffle's After School Club will be available through #BBC iPlayer after 5pm today, along with Eps 6-10!! As always, it is a JOY to write for this wonderful #CBeebies show and work with all these FAB people!!! 🐶 🐾 💝

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm fighting SO hard amidst exhausting personal and professional worries, but STRUGGLING to see the point in anything anymore; I feel like there's no hope and that the world has given up. I would just love a ray of light to brighten up our lives.

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Screenwriter (BBC, Channel 4, BFI) looking to (re)connect with #Producers & #ProductionCompanies for funding applications. Let me know if you're interested!

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our Series 2 of Waffle's After School Club launched this week on CBeebies + BBC iPlayer!!! Series 1 (where I wrote Episode 9) is still on catch-up!!! My brand-new HALLOWEEN special is live from next Monday!! 🎃 As ever, a TREAT to work with everyone!!!!! 🐶💝 youtu.be/lZQfYMJXo80?...

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our Series 2 of Waffle's After School Club launches TODAY on #CBeebies & #BBC iPlayer at 5.20PM!!! Series One (where I wrote Episode 9) is still available to catch up on!!! My brand-new HALLOWEEN special will be live from next Monday with Eps 6-10!! 🎃 As ever, a TREAT to work with everyone!!!! 🐶🐾💝

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Require a Writer for your #CosyCrime series or project?? My own Cosy Crime show has been in optioned development with Expectation (BAFTA-winning #ProductionCompany behind The Chelsea Detective & Alma's Not Normal). 👋✏️ #Detective #Mystery #Television #Film #Movie #Audio #Screenwriter #Scriptwriter

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Keen to speak with #Audio #Producer #ProductionCompany regarding #Mystery series about an "oddball" #Detective who embraces their unusual, uniquely original detection process to solve crimes outside the box of standard human perception. Think Columbo, but tackling fringe topics or counterculture. 🕵‍♀️

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

*BBC & Channel 4 #Screenwriter - plus BBC & ITV #Actor - URGENT SEARCH FOR WORK** Look at all these FANTASTIC, WONDERFUL people I am lucky enough and grateful to call colleagues and friends!! They have been wonderful enough to share their kind thoughts about working with me. Maybe you and I next?

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A heads-up for those with access: this dazzling masterpiece is on the BBC iPlayer from today

Programme cover for The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

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Ben Rock @benrock.com · 11/09/2026

Some love for Alien Raiders from the amazing @bloody-disgusting.com !

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

*IN DIRE, DESPERATE NEED OF WORK - URGENT* Please help if you can? 🙏

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*#PRODUCERS / #PRODUCTIONCOMPANIES / #DIRECTORS* Want to work with me? Previously a BBC-commissioned Writer-Director. My buddy, Neal Edelstein - producer of Mulholland Drive and The Ring - told me: "You should direct a feature next!" I want to make a new short, too. (1 /2 posts)

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These guidelines were updated on 13 August 2026.
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Producers can apply for the following:

Discovery feature funding provides awards of up to £1,000,000 for projects with debut directors and a production budget between £1,000,000 and £3,500,000
Impact feature funding provides awards of up to £1,250,000 for projects with:
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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

*CHILDREN'S LIVE-ACTION #TV COMMISSIONING OPPORTUNITY - DEADLINE: 30TH OCTOBER 2026* The Northern Star Project seems a FANTASTIC chance to get Scripted projects moving!! Would any indie Producers / Production Companies want to apply with me? I possess a half-hour pilot script. (1 / many posts)

Are you developing a drama series for kids in Northern Europe or the UK?
➡️ The Northern Star Project is open for submissions.

“Five major European broadcasters – the BBC (UK), DR (Denmark), NPO (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), and VRT (Flanders) - have come together as The Northern Star Project, to find new children’s live action scripted drama series that speak authentically to all young northern European viewers, regardless of their home country.”

The project is for:

✅ independent production companies with a base in the UK, Norway, Flanders, Netherlands or Denmark
✅ children’s live action scripted drama series
✅ target audiences of ages 7-9 or 10-12
✅ multiple episodes of 30 minutes duration or less, 150 – 240 minutes total
✅ innovative ways of storytelling and new technologies

📍Submission deadline: 30 September, 2025

I’ll post the project link in the comments. ⬇️

(Disclaimer: I have no affiliation to the programme, just spreading the word.)

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#Screenwriter here who would LOVE to write or adapt #Detective stories - Agatha Christie & beyond!!! My own #CosyCrime creation has been optioned with a BAFTA-winning #ProductionCompany plus a BAFTA-winning co-writer!! Hit me up! 🕵‍♀️ ✍

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

*SCREENWRITER WHO'S WRITTEN FOR BBC, Channel 4, British Film Institute (BFI) & CBeebies BACK OUT WITH HIS BEGGING BOWL AGAIN* Any work going, pretty please? No matter how big or small! 🙂 ✍

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Lowdown is my FAVOURITE show that I have discovered in a long time!!!!! I think about it at least a few times every week!! Has anyone else watched? There's a 2nd series coming this October, and I CANNOT WAIT!!! Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin guest-starring this time around!!!

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

*SCREENWRITER WHO'S WRITTEN FOR BBC, Channel 4, British Film Institute (BFI) & #CBeebies BACK OUT WITH HIS BEGGING BOWL AGAIN* Any work going, pretty please? No matter how big or small! 🙂 ✍

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

*FOR JOURNALISTS OR ANYONE WRITING ABOUT OR INVESTIGATING EAST SURREY HOSPITAL / SUSSEX & SURREY NHS HEALTHCARE TRUST* I have two years of hellish experience dealing with them, as my mother - for whom I am medical proxy - is an ongoing patient of theirs. (1 / 3 posts)

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Seeking Exec Producer to work with Neal Edelstein (producer of Mulholland Drive, The Ring horror franchise) and I on a handful of projects we have in development. Ideal if you're Stateside or Canadian and experienced in the $1m-upward range.

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Seeking Exec Producer for home-invasion horror film about latchkey kids, directed by Tyler Macintyre (Tragedy Girls, Five Nights At Freddy's). Ideal if you're Stateside or Canadian, experienced in $1m-upwards range. We want to shoot my proof of concept short and make the feature.

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

*PRODUCERS / PRODUCTION COMPANIES* BBC-commissioned, Arts Council England-funded Writer and Director here. I've also worked with British Film Institute (BFI), and 90% of my short films have screened on television. Let's collaborate together and make dreams come true! youtu.be/CgtIq7rKH4k?...

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

*URGENT SEARCH FOR PAID WORK* I've been let go from my part-time, non-writing job today due to company-wide issues. I'm freaking out a bit!! If you could utilise my "talents" anywhere - #Scriptwriting, #Filmmaking, #Acting (speaking or supporting artist), et al - please shout! 🙏

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Matt Holt (the double-Emmy-nominated & Royal Television Society-winning director of BBC / CBBC's 'A Kind of Spark') and myself have conjured up a comedy script / series that needs a home. About a drab, undercover alien befriended by a curious autistic girl. (1 / 2 posts)

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Seeking #PRODUCER / #PRODUCTIONCOMPANY on feature film sci-fi thriller about extraterrestrial encounters/abductions. Lead role written for BAFTA-winning actor. Neal Edelstein (producer of MULHOLLAND DRIVE and THE RING) attached as consulting producer. Short proof of concept script available.

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I am SO EXCITED that Waffle's After School Club, and myself as a writer, are returning for a brand-spanking new 2ND SERIES after our 1st has been such a huge hit for BBC!!! 🐶 💝 If anyone is in need of a #Writer for their project - #TV or otherwise - please let me know!! ✍

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What are your favourite shows, podcasts, books or anything about anomalous phenomena, the paranormal, conspiracy theories, et al?

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You know things are bad when even your therapist is ignoring you....

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

*URGENT SEARCH FOR PAID WORK* I have been let go from my part-time, non-writing job today due to company-wide issues. I am freaking out a bit!! If anyone could utilise my "talents" anywhere - #Scriptwriting, #Filmmaking, #Acting (speaking or supporting artist roles), et al - please let me know!! 🙏

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Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled @joshmerritt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

*DEAR #PRODUCERS / #PRODUCTIONCOMPANIES* I MISS #Directing!!! I've #Written & #Directed for the BBC, BFI, Barbican Centre, Arts Council England. Happy with the creative and personable sides but a bit useless with most everything else. Please help me? 😂 (1 / 2 posts) youtu.be/CgtIq7rKH4k?...

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