Welcome to Minor Spillage!

What is Minor Spillage?

Hello! If you have found this blog, you must one of three things:

1. Interested in TV, Radio, Theatre and other bits of creative genius. 

2. Really bored. (This one is very likely.)

3. Here by mistake, because you were searching for something a tad more unsavoury. 

Minor Spillage is a production company, but not just any production company… We are a really, really good one. 

So far, we have put on an award winning theatre production (We were just as surprised as anyone about this.), are in post production on a sci-fi comedy radio show and are currently developing a varied series of podcasts for 2026. We’re busy boys! There’s even a short film and ANOTHER THEATRE SHOW on the way! 

But, we thought all that just wasn’t enough… Have you been dying to get some more raw, unadulterated Minor Spillage content into your veins? If you are, perhaps you’re our mother, checking up on us? If you’re not (or even if you are), this is the place for you. 

What will YOU get out of this? What even is this? And who writes blogs anymore? 

All of these questions and more will be answered. But first, let’s meet the team! 

Meet the Team

Josh Dixon

I was born in Blackpool. Forged in the flames of destiny. My first words when I came out of my mother’s womb were… "I’m going to be a writer/director". The whole maternity ward cheered, and did a merry conga through the hospital. 

Twenty eight years later, things have finally started to happen. There’s been a lot of false starts, but such is life. People say the struggle is what makes you, but honestly, if you asked a 21 year old me what he’d rather have for Christmas - the struggle or a yacht… Well, I'd be in the Bahamas right now instead of writing this shite. Was this the sort of thing you wanted me to write Ryan?

Ryan Croughan 

Perfect, couldn’t be clearer Josh. Perhaps unoriginally, I was also born in Blackpool. What a place… it sure has produced some characters over the years, including me, who has also always wanted to produce characters of my own. No, not produce. That’s the wrong word. No 10 year old knows what ‘producing’ means. You ‘produce’ a really nice poo when you’ve eaten too many doughnuts. I’ve always wanted to make stuff.

And now, after many, many years of simply making stuff, I now produce stuff, with Josh, for Minor Spillage Productions. It’s our aim to make entertaining programming in all its forms, to appeal to as many of you weirdos as possible. What I’m trying to say is, we aim for the low hanging fruit and do anything we possibly can to get a laugh. Which, I’ll be honest, you may have already got when I compared producing to having a stellar shite.

Speaking of shite… 

Introducing: The Minor Spillage Blog

The process of making anything creative can sometimes be unnecessarily ambiguous. Certainly how to make a career out of it can sometimes feel like it’s kept behind a never ending series of hoops. A lot of the time, you’re simply told to just keep working hard and you might get lucky. Nobody tells you the sheer amount of hours you will spend working, sometimes fitting around another job. Unless you’re rich. God we wish we were rich.

We wanted to make this blog for two reasons. Firstly, we wanted to open people up to the nuts and bolts of the process. What does creating a theatre show actually entail? How the hell do you make a radio production? How do you motivate yourself to keep going when your friends are having children and opening up falafel stands in Accrington Stanley? Admittedly, only one of those things is relevant. See this as a record of what a production company actually does. Hopefully, you’ll get something out of it. Maybe you won’t. To be honest, that’s a risk we’re willing to take. 

The second reason for making this blog is to have our very own creative outlet. Making shows takes time, but a lot of the time we’ll have a short story, a poem, or even a song… We’d love it if you could hear all these… and now you can! Lucky you. We have friends (Again, we are just as surprised as anyone about this.) who are also creative people, who will also be contributing to our blog. From here on out, we will be posting weekly bits of content for you to (hopefully) enjoy. You never know, some of this stuff could make you laugh so hard that your sides split open and you’ll have to be rushed to the ICU. That’s the dream, eh?

We hope to see you next time, with whatever that may entail. 

Reluctantly Yours, 

Josh and Ryan