Introducing Off Script

To what your appetite for our new show Off Script, here’s a special message for you from its presenters, Ben and Lloyd…

“Hey everyone!

We’ve had an amazing time recording for this project with Minor Spillage!

We love acting with a passion, if you love the industry as much as we do, hopefully you’ll spend a little time with us while we chat away… for some reason…

Let us know what you think and we’ll see you around!

Lloyd and Ben x”

Thanks for that guys. 

Off Script is the first of our brand new podcasts coming to you in 2026. Huzzah! The series is something that we at Minor Spillage are all extremely passionate about - telling real stories, from real people, about what’s it’s like working (and indeed finding work!) in the media industry.

Ben Sharp and Lloyd Mitchell are the shows hosts, and very good ones they are too! They’re two actors who have worked for many years developing their craft, and are eagerly progressing in their careers. They have worked in every form you could imagine - radio, theatre, TV, and even adverts!

In the development of this show we kept knocking back and forth the idea that you hear so many stories from actors once they have quote-unquote “made it”. “Oh, I used to work in a chip shop, now I’m in a multi-million dollar Hollywood feature film.” Cool anecdote… but there seems to be a very solid part of that story missing? Where’s the middle bit? How does an actor go from serving chips to the silver screen? We hope that this show addresses that.

Ben and Lloyd will be your guides through the acting industry for the next six weeks, with each episode focussing on a particular theme, broken up into a series of different segments, attacking different parts of an actors process. Some of these features include…

Even if you’re not an actor, we all know auditions can be awful. Well, with “Audition Horror Stories”, Ben and Lloyd delve into some of the very worst audition experiences out there!

There’s a weekly challenge too! A “Cold Read” is very important - the ability to take a script at face value and perform it, without having read it before! Lloyd and Ben will be doing this every week, putting their skills to the test, with scripts covering a variety of different formats and tones. Have they got what it takes?

We’re very proud of this show, and Ben and Lloyd have put an awful lot of work into making sure you’ll feel at home listening to them natter away. You could have no interest in performance of any sort, or be a devoted professional! Whatever your standing, we can promise that Off Script will have something for everyone. 

Off Script debuts on all good podcast platforms on Tuesday 17th March. In the meantime, stay tuned to our socials for exclusive interview clips, where Lloyd and Ben tackle all kinds of subjects, in a way that only they can!