Josh Cole

Producer

Lewisham, London, England, UK

Biography

Josh is Head of Comedy at BBC Studios, overseeing a slate of multi-award-winning programmes including Good Omens, Inside No. 9 and Trying. Previously Josh worked as commissioning editor at Sky where he was Executive Producer on the BAFTA award-winning Sally4Ever, Breeders and Two Weeks To Live. Josh’s producer credits include Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Crashing, Timewasters and Cockroaches.

Filmography

8.0

Good Omens

Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that it's about to end. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing. The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Everything is going according to the Divine Plan...except that someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Can our heroes find him and stop Armageddon before it's too late?

8.1

Inside No. 9

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

7.5

Trying

All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?

6.8

Breeders

Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.

6.5

Death Valley

Thrown together by the murder of John's neighbour, John and Janie are an odd, yet hilarious duo with opposing instincts. Every week, they get to the bottom of gripping murders, with various stunning Welsh locations providing a backdrop to their investigations.

7.1

Crashing

A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.

6.5

Here We Go

Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday challenges - from changing jobs to kidnapping dogs.

7.3

Two Weeks to Live

When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.

7.6

Two Doors Down

Comedy centred around a couple and their insufferable neighbours.

4.8

Sally4Ever

Sally is a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for ten years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally undergoes a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?

5.5

Black Ops

Dom and Kay join the Met Police in the hope of cleaning up their community, but are unwittingly thrust into the murky world of deep cover infiltration as they become part of a powerful criminal enterprise. But for Dom and Kay it quickly becomes more of a fiasco than Donnie Brasco…

6.5

Ladhood

When did it all go wrong? Liam, who parties too hard and disappoints his girlfriend, turns to his teenage years for answers. A funny, frank evaluation of how lads become men.

6.0

Timewasters

A struggling four-piece South London jazz band find themselves transported back in time to the 1920s and 1950s via an elevator in a dilapidated block of flats. Met with stares and curiosity in the past, the group hilariously navigates the clash of cultures and social conventions all while exploring worlds that are both incredibly familiar and painfully foreign.

6.8

Mammoth

In 1979 an avalanche catches Tony Mammoth unaware - thought dead, Tony is brought back to the land of the living in 2021.

3.3

We the Jury

Pilot comedy. We The Jury is a comedy featuring William who has always wanted to do jury duty his whole life just like his dad. He never imagined that when the day finally arrived he would be on the jury of an actual murder trial.

6.1

Cockroaches

Tom and Suze, two nineteen-year-olds both dreaming of the future, have sex when nuclear war strikes. Unfortunately, they then survive. Awkward. Cockroaches is a post-apocalyptic comedy about one family trying to survive in a wasteland of cannibals, perverts and one insufferable-ex. Our heroes struggle with boredom, fear and the ethics of cooking with their own body fluids.

N/A

Just a Couple

Just A Couple is about Mark and Shavon. They have a modern relationship, by which we mean they count each others Facebook likes, keep tabs on each others Instagram, and binge watch Netflix together.

5.3

A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou

A womb with a view. Awkward adulthood. The not-so-golden years. Journey through life’s stages with Jamie Demetriou in this musical sketch-comedy special.

6.2

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over

This documentary tells the story of one of TV's darkest and most celebrated comedies, featuring cast interviews and extensive candid moments with creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Cameras are admitted everywhere throughout the making of the show's final series, from the writers' room to the makeup trailer, from prop store to set design, making this the perfect farewell to the multi-award winning series.

1.0

Break Clause

This is a classic love story - proper Jane Austen, boy-meets-girl stuff. Except boy and girl break up the day they move in together and are stuck in a six-month contract...