Episode 1 of 6, RTÉ One, Wednesday, October 10th at 9.30pm
New six-part comedy series for RTÉ One, written by and starring Amy Huberman as Joy, a woman who finds herself thrust into the limelight as she tries to get over a break-up. Also starring Aisling Bea, Laura Whitmore and Jennifer Rainsford.
Joy is totally fine…. No matter what her dog, Canine Aidan, thinks. She may have just broken up with her long-term boyfriend, Aidan, and her best friend Trish is busy having a baby, but she’s perfectly happy with her secluded and orderly life. Her career is also trundling along nicely, until she receives an unwanted new job, filling in for Ireland’s most-beloved vlogger, Flora the Happy Hunter (at least until the swelling from a dodgy skin resurfacing dies down). This new job catapults Joy into the unknown, and unwelcome, world of social media stardom, where she must share her fears, feelings, and wardrobe malfunctions with the world as she goes to great heights to find… well joy.
Finding Joy also stars Lochlann O’Mearain, Catherine Walker, Paul Reid, Hannah Scott and Mark Doherty. The series is produced for RTÉ by Rob Walpole and Rebecca O’Flanagan, directed by Kieron J Walsh (Jump, The Savage Eye) and Director of Photography is Cathal Watters (Peaky Blinders). RTÉ is co-producing with Acorn TV.
Series Overview
Joy Morris’s quiet and controlled life is about to be turned up-side-down:
Without preparation or predisposition, Joy is unexpectedly plucked from her world of grammar and prepositions in the back office of News Today and summoned to step into the position of the media corporation’s sexy and adventurous lifestyle guru Flora Hunter. As the “Happy Hunter”, every week Flora embarks on an adventure into the wild and wacky activities that purport to bring excitement, spontaneity and happiness into the lives of its consumers. She reports back in her super-cool, laconic style and the whole venture has proved enormously successful: alternative businesses, treatments and therapies know that Flora’s word can make or break their credibility rating.
Tragically though, over the previous weekend, Flora cashed in some dodgy vouchers for a facial touch-up that has left her searching for her nostrils and unable to face the cameras.
Joy is as surprised as anyone to be summoned to a meeting with News Today’s panicked executives, the formidable Jeffrey and Audrey:
Joy is literally the last person you would choose as a replacement. Like literally the last. But she is spurred on to agree to it because she has just seen a social media post of her ex Aidan with some hot new girl. And maybe this new venture can prove to Aidan that she is not the rigid and controlling person he suspects her of being. And, with any luck, she may even be able to prove that to herself.
Joy’s unpolished pieces turn out to be a hit with the News Today subscribers. And as she ventures into the strange and hair-raising world of therapeutic wrestling, internet dating, group therapy and life-changing abseiling, Joy comes to realize that her professional journey may be able help her negotiate her personal dramas.