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Michael Joshua Michael Joshua i(A145569 works by)
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Television script-writer and script editor.

Michael Joshua has worked as a television script-writer since at least the early 1980s, when he scripted the Canadian telemovie A Matter of Cunning (co-written with American script-writer Robert Mann and directed by Alan Erlich.

By 1984, however, Joshua was writing for Australian television, with scripts for Prisoner, for which he wrote between 1984 and 1986. Joshua then moved on to The Flying Doctors (1987-1988) and Home and Away (1988-1989).

In the 1990s, Joshua wrote for long-running soap opera Neighbours (1994-1995) and judicial drama State Coroner (1998), but also began what would be a long-running and extensive involvement with Jonathan M. Shiff Productions, Australian television's most prolific producer of young-adult speculative-fiction television. Joshua wrote for Ocean Girl between 1994 and 1997, as well as acting as script editor for the series. He followed this with scripts for Thunderstone, Horace and Tina, and Pirate Islands, while also working as associate story editor on Thunderstone; story consultant, story editor, and script editor on Cybergirl (2001); and associate story editor on Wicked Science (2006).

He was also script editor for the twenty-six episodes of Parallax, a Western Australian produced children's fantasy program.

Since 2000, Joshua has contributed scripts to Something in the Air (2002), short-lived soap opera Headland (2006), and animated fantasy series Legend of Enyo (2010), as well as co-writing the short film Awkwardness with Nicole Klein.

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form y separately published work icon Mako Mermaids Mako : Island of Secrets ( dir. Grant Brown et. al. )agent Australia : Jonathan M. Shiff Productions , 2013-2014 6897015 2013 series - publisher film/TV young adult fantasy

'When fifteen year-old Zac goes camping on Mako Island, he has no idea his every move is being monitored by real-life mermaids Sirena, Nixie and Lyla, whose job it is to ward off trespassers. When he comes into contact with the magical waters of the Moon Pool on the night of a full moon, Zac is given a taste of Mako's powers, waking the next day to discover he has been granted fin-like feet and the power to control water…causing all sorts of trouble for Sirena, Nixie and Lyla.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 10/1/2014)

2015 winner Australian Teachers of Media Awards Best Children’s Television Program Season 2
form y separately published work icon Home and Away 1988 Australia : Seven Network , 1988- Z1367287 1988 series - publisher film/TV

Home and Away is a television serial created by Alan Bateman and produced by the Seven Network. The idea for the series came to Bateman (then head of drama at Seven) after he stopped to buy ice-creams in a small country town in southern NSW. While chatting to some locals, he learned that the town was unhappy about plans to build a home for foster kids from the city. At that time, Channel Seven was still smarting from its decision to let Neighbours go to the Ten Network, where it had become hugely popular, and was looking to create another series to rival its success. Bateman saw in the idea that became Home and Away the potential for plenty of storylines and conflict by having streetwise city kids being relocated to a small regional environment,

In the beginning, the series focused on Pippa and Tom Fletcher, who, being unable to have children of their own, decide to become foster parents. When Tom is retrenched from his city job, the couple buy the rundown Summer Bay Caravan Park and move there with their five foster children. Soon after arriving, they also take in troublesome Bobby Simpson.

The series debuted in January 1988 with an hour-long telemovie. Although this rated well, the series itself took some while to develop an audience. Having learned their lesson from the Neighbours debacle, Network Seven gave its new show time, and its ratings gradually increased. As with Neighbours, the Home and Away series and performers became very popular in the United Kingdom.

2014 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
1998 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Series
1996 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Series
1995 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Series
1994 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Series
1993 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Series
1991 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2022 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2016 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2015 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2022 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2019 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2018 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
form y separately published work icon Neighbours 1985 Australia : Reg Grundy Enterprises FremantleMedia Australia , 1985-2022 Z1367509 1985 series - publisher film/TV

A daily television drama series set in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough, Neighbours chronicles the lives of the residents of Ramsay Street. The series initially revolved around three families: the Ramsays (at number 24 Ramsay Street), the Robinsons (at number 26), and the Clarkes (at number 28). The scope of the series has since broadened to include new Ramsay Street familes.

1990 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Series
1989 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Series
1988 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
1987 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2019 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2019 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
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