Jojo & Gran Gran: It’s Time to Mix Colours

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[Logo] B.B.C.

DESCRIPTION: An illustration features Jojo, a little girl with curly black hair holding a stuffed toy panda and an older woman, Gran Gran, with greying curly black hair.

SINGER: Jojo and Gran Gran.

[Uplifting music plays]

DESCRIPTION: In an animated world, a door opens, revealing Jojo’s mummy, a woman with tightly braided black hair and Jojo’s daddy, a man with short black hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and glasses. Jojo’s parents. smile.

SINGER: Take my hand and come with me.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo runs outside with her toy panda and takes Gran Gran’s hand.

SINGER: On a journey through our streets.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran walk down a city sidewalk. They wave to Ned, a bearded man walking his small dog, Monty.

SINGER: We'll say hello to everybody that we meet.

DESCRIPTION: Ned waves before being pulled away by Monty. On a rainy day, Jojo and Gran Gran wear raincoats and carry umbrellas.

SINGER: Through the year, as seasons change, exploring every day, we take our time to stop and play.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran jump in puddles. On a sunny day, they walk into a park. A red double-decker bus passes by the park.

SINGER: And when the springtime blossom turns to summer sun, Jojo likes to get outside, Gran Gran always makes it fun!

DESCRIPTION: On another day, Jojo and Gran Gran roll down a grassy hill. In the fall, Jojo throws leaves in the air.

SINGER: When the autumn rainfall turns to winter snow, I know a special place, a place where we can go.

DESCRIPTION: In the winter, Jarrod, a black-haired man with a neatly trimmed beard, makes a snowman. He waves as Jojo and Gran Gran walk by in their winter coats. In the spring, Gran Gran’s neighbour, Cynthia, a grey-haired woman, waters flowers in her front yard. Jojo and Gran Gran wave on their way to Gran Gran’s house.

SINGER: Take my hand, we're heading home with Jojo and Gran Gran.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran walk to Gran Gran’s front door.

[Title] Jojo and Gran Gran.

[Episode title] It’s Time to Mix Colours.

JOJO: It’s time to mix colours.

[Opening credits] Written by Atlanta Green.

[Gentle music plays]

GRAN GRAN NARRATING: It was a winter afternoon. The trees were bare, and the air was frosty. And JoJo and Gran Gran, that's me, were painting in the kitchen with Great Gran Gran!

DESCRIPTION: At Gran Gran’s kitchen table, Jojo paints. Gran Gran holds a tablet with Great Gran Gran on a video call.

JOJO: I'm painting Saint Lucia, Great Gran Gran!

GREAT GRAN GRAN: I can't wait to see your finished picture.

JOJO: I need yellow paint for the sand. And blue paint for the sea.

GREAT GRAN GRAN: Don't forget the Piton Mountains, JoJo! I love how tall and green they are.

DESCRIPTION: Great Gran Gran moves away, revealing tall, lush mountains behind her in the distance.

GRAN GRAN: Oh, yes! They're very important, JoJo.

JOJO: Ooh!

DESCRIPTION: A lizard appears on the video call.

GREAT GRAN GRAN: Shoo! Oh! Shoo, shoo! I have to go now! See you and your picture very soon!

JOJO: Bye, Great Gran Gran!

[Gran Gran chuckling]

GRAN GRAN: Bye, Mama!

DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran wave. Gran Gran ends the video call and sets the tablet down on the table. Jojo grabs a paintbrush and reaches for an empty cup of green paint.

JOJO: Oh! Gran Gran?

GRAN GRAN: Uh-huh?

JOJO: I've run out of green paint.

GRAN GRAN: Hmm. Let me see if I have any more in the cupboard.

DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran takes a box with paint and paintbrushes out of a cupboard and sets it on the table.

GRAN GRAN: I've lots more yellow or blue. But no green.

JOJO: But the mountains are green, Gran Gran!

GRAN GRAN: Hmm. That gives me an idea for a Gran Gran plan!

[Celebratory music briefly plays]

GRAN GRAN: JoJo, we're going to make green paint by mixing some colours.

[Jojo squealing happily]

[Whooshing]

DESCRIPTION: In live-action, a boy with short brown hair wearing a monster sweater sits next to a girl wearing her long brown hair in a ponytail and a blue zipper sweater.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: To mix colours, you have to add one colour to another.

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired boy pretends to squeeze paint from a tube.

[Brown-haired boy imitating paint squelching]

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: One colour.

[Brown-haired boy imitating paint squelching]

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl pretends to squeeze paint from a tube.

BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: Another colour. Squirt!

DESCRIPTION: In a bedroom, a girl with her long, curly brown hair in a bun wears a light pink cardigan. She sits beside a girl with her long, curly black hair in braided pigtails, wearing a dark pink cardigan. The curly-haired girl and the black-haired girl pretend to squeeze paint from tubes.

[Both girls imitating paint squelching]

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: Let's mix it!

DESCRIPTION: In another bedroom, a boy with short black hair wearing a dark blue and white striped shirt, sits next to a boy with short blond hair wearing a light blue t-shirt. The black-haired boy and the blond-haired boy pretend to mix paint.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: We made...

BROWN-HAIRED BOY AND BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: Orange!

CURLY-HAIRED GIRL: You dip the paint brush in it, and you, and you paint.

DESCRIPTION: A girl with long black hair and bangs wearing a floral long-sleeved shirt sits next to a boy with short brown hair wearing a grey long-sleeved shirt with trucks. The long-haired girl and the short-haired boy pretend to paint. In another room, a girl with her long brown hair in a ponytail wears a dark blue cardigan. Beside her, a boy with short black hair wears an orange zipper sweater.

PONYTAIL GIRL: If I was to make one colour, I would make purple, because you use blue, red, and that makes purple.

DESCRIPTION: A girl with her long black hair in a ponytail wears a green cardigan. The black-haired ponytail girl sits beside a girl with her long, curly black hair in pigtails, wearing a white zipper sweater with spots of colour.

BLACK-HAIRED PONYTAIL GIRL: I'd want to make rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, indigo.

SHORT-HAIRED BOY: I love all the colours.

LONG-HAIRED GIRL: I love all the colours!

[Whooshing]

DESCRIPTION: In Gran Gran’s kitchen, Gran Gran takes blue and yellow tubes of paint out of the box.

GRAN GRAN: Let's see what happens when we mix blue and yellow paint together.

DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran squeezes squiggly lines of blue and yellow paint onto a plate, then mixes them into a new colour with a paintbrush.

GRAN GRAN: It makes a new colour.

[JoJo gasping]

JOJO: Green!

GRAN GRAN: Yay! We can make as much green as we like.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo adds a green mountain to her Saint Lucia painting.

GRAN GRAN: Great Gran Gran is going to love this painting.

JOJO: Hmm. There's no one on the beach!

GRAN GRANL Oh, well, who shall we put on it?

JOJO: Panda!

DESCRIPTION: On the table, Panda tips forward.

JOJO: But I need purple to paint Panda.

GRAN GRAN: Well, we can mix purple, too. We need blue. And red.

DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran squeezes lines of blue and red paint onto a plate.

GRAN GRAN: Now mix it together, and see what happens.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo mixes the blue and red paint with a paintbrush,

JOJO: Hmm.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo makes a new colour.

JOJO: It's purple! Just like Panda! This is very clever.

[Gran Gran chuckling]

DESCRIPTION: Jojo paints Panda onto the beach of her painting.

[Jojo humming]

[Jojo gasping]

JOJO: Can we mix more colours, Gran Gran?

GRAN GRAN: Of course we can!

[Gentle, upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Jojo adds blue paint to a plate of red and yellow paint. She mixes all the colours together.

[JoJo giggling]

JOJO: Brown!

DESCRIPTION: Jojo adds five people to her painting. Gran Gran holds up the tubes of red and yellow paint. Jojo nods, and she mixes lines of red and yellow paint together on a plate.

JOJO: Wow! Orange!

DESCRIPTION: Jojo adds an orange sky to her painting. She holds up red and white paint. Gran Gran nods, and Jojo mixes lines of red and white paint.

JOJO: It's pink!

DESCRIPTION: Jojo paints pink clothes onto three of the people on the beach. Jojo and Gran Gran hold up black and white paint. Jojo makes Panda nod, then mixes lines of black and white paint.

JOJO: And grey!

DESCRIPTION: Jojo paints grey clothes onto the last two people of her painting. She adds grey hair to one of the two. With the black paint, faces and hair appear on panda and the people in the painting, Jojo’s family, including herself, her mummy, her daddy, Gran Gran, and Great Gran Gran.

JOJO: All we need now is the sky, Panda.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo reaches for her cup of blue paint and finds it empty.

JOJO: Oh! Can we mix some more blue, Gran Gran?

GRAN GRAN: Ah, blue is one of the colours you can't mix. But you could paint it a different colour.

[Jojo laughing]

JOJO: The sky is always blue, Gran Gran!

GRAN GRAN: Oh, is it? Well, let's have a look out of the window.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo grabs Panda and follows Gran Gran to the window. They gaze outside as the sun begins to set, casting a pink glow across the sky.

JOJO: Look, Panda! The sky is pink!

GRAN GRAN: And if you look closely, you can see lots more colours, too.

JOJO: Wow! The sky is mixing colours, too! I know how I can finish my painting.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo returns to the table. Gran Gran smiles.

[Jojo humming]

DESCRIPTION: Jojo paints the sky in her painting pink.

GRAN GRAN: Saint Lucia at sunset.

[Gran Gran gasping]

GRAN GRAN: Oh, I love it.

JOJO: Can we call Great Gran Gran and show her?

GRAN GRAN: Oh, of course!

DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran picks up her tablet and makes a call. She turns the tablet toward Jojo.

[Tablet ringing]

DESCRIPTION: Great Gran Gran appears on a video call.

JOJO: Hello, Great Gran Gran!

GRAN GRAN: Hello, Mama!

GREAT GRAN GRAN: JoJo! My little sunshine. Are you finished painting now?

JOJO: Yes! This is a painting of a Saint Lucian beach.

DESCRIPTION: Jojo holds up her finished painting.

GREAT GRAN GRAN: Ooh! This is wonderful, JoJo! I love the green Piton Mountains!

JOJO: I had to mix yellow paint and blue paint to make them green.

GREAT GRAN GRAN: Our family looks so colourful, JoJo. Did you mix anymore colours?

JOJO: Yes! We mixed red and blue to make Panda!

DESCRIPTION: On the table, Panda tips forward.

GRAN GRAN: And we mixed red and yellow...

JOJO: To make the orange for the sun.

GRAN GRAN: And what did we mix for the sky?

JOJO: Red and white to make it pink! Our sky is pink, too. Let me show you!

DESCRIPTION: Jojo and Gran Gran walk over to the window and look out at the now dark sky. Jojo holds the tablet up to the window. Above houses in the distance, the setting sun casts a mix of colours between the chimneys.

JOJO: Oh, no! The sky has changed colours again.

GREAT GRAN GRAN: Ah, the sky is always full of surprises.

GRAN GRAN: Let's see what colours we can spot. Oh, I can see purple! And there's blue. I hope we see a pink star.

[Jojo and Gran Gran giggling]

[Whooshing]

[Gentle, cheerful music plays]

DESCRIPTION: In live-action, at a craft table, a girl with her long, dark brown hair in a high ponytail wears a dark blue smock. Beside her, a boy with light brown hair wears a green smock.

ONE CHILD NARRATING: We're looking at colours together.

ANOTHER CHILD NARRATING: We're starting with red.

DESCRIPTION: The children squeeze red paint into a plastic tray. They drag paintbrushes through the paint.

BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: I feel like we're mixing tomato sauce.

DESCRIPTION: The children squeeze blue paint into a plastic tray.

CHILD NARRATOR: Next is blue.

DESCRIPTION: The children drag paintbrushes through the blue paint.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: I'm doing some swirls.

BOTH CHILDREN: Swirl, swirl, swirl!

DESCRIPTION: The children squeeze yellow paint into a tray.

CHILD NARRATOR: And now, yellow!

DESCRIPTION: The children drag paintbrushes through the yellow paint.

BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: Yellow is like the sun and bananas.

[Brown-haired boy giggling]

CHILD NARRATOR: What happens when we mix blue and red?

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl squeezes blue paint into a tray. The brown-haired boy adds red paint. The children mix the colours.

BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: It's turning purple! It's turning purple!

CHILD NARRATOR: Red and blue makes purple. What colour does yellow and red make?

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl squeezes red paint onto yellow paint. The children mix the colours.

CHILD NARRATING: It makes orange!

BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: Orange reminds me of carrots.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: Orange is the same colour as pumpkins.

CHILD NARRATOR: Let's make another colour.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: First, we need a little bit of blue.

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired boy squeezes blue paint into a tray.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: Now for a little bit of yellow.

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl adds yellow paint.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: Done.

DESCRIPTION: The children mix the blue and yellow paint.

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: I think we might need some more yellow.

BROWN-HAIRED GIRL: Yeah.

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl adds more yellow paint. The children mix the paint.

CHILD NARRATOR: Blue and yellow makes green!

BROWN-HAIRED BOY: Green reminds me of the grass.

CHILD NARRATOR: Let's make a picture with our colours.

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl stamps red circles onto a large piece of white paper with a small circular sponge.

CHILD NARRATOR: Red!

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired boy stamps a yellow circle with a larger circular sponge.

CHILD NARRATOR: Yellow!

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl rolls orange paint onto the paper with a small paint roller.

CHILD NARRATOR: Orange!

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired boy stamps purple circles with a medium-sized sponge.

CHILD NARRATOR: Purple!

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired boy rolls green paint onto the paper with a small paint roller.

CHILD NARRATOR: Now for green!

DESCRIPTION: The brown-haired girl stamps blue circles with a large circular sponge.

CHILD NARRATOR: And blue! This is so much fun.

DESCRIPTION: The children cover the large piece of paper with the colourful paint.

CHILD NARRATOR: We love colours.

[Whooshing]

DESCRIPTION: In Gran Gran’s kitchen, Jojo and Gran Gran stick Jojo’s painting to the fridge with magnets.

GRAN GRAN: Oh, your paintings always brighten up my kitchen, JoJo.

JOJO: Tomorrow I'm going to paint the nighttime sky with purple and blue.

GRAN GRAN: And you can use pink for the stars.

[Jojo giggling]

JOJO: Yes! I love you, Gran Gran!

GRAN GRAN: Oh, I love you too, JoJo.

DESCRIPTION: Gran Gran picks up Jojo, and they share a hug.

[Gentle, uplifting music plays]

[End credits] Jojo, Taiya Samuel. Gran Gran, Cathy Tyson. Great Gran Gran, Llewella Gideon.

[Logo] Jojo & Gran Gran.

Series Producers Tom Cousins, Angela Young. Series Director Ben Halliwell. Produced in association with A.P. Productions. B.B.C. Studios Kids and Family Productions for B.B.C. Copyright B.B.C. 2024. Distributed by B.B.C. Studios.