Exclusive: Writer and producer Lauren Ashley Smith (A Black Lady Sketch Show) is expanding her relationship with CBS Studios, signing an overall deal with the studio. Under the pact, Smith will be creating comedies for network/streaming on all platforms.
Smith is currently writing and executive producing a U.S. remake of British comedy Timewasters for ABC through CBS Studios. The as-yet untitled time travel comedy will revolve around four Black twentysomething New Yorkers who accidentally end up in the year 1926, despite being deeply unenthusiastic about and deeply unequipped for time travel. The series follows the foursome’s often-bumbling attempts to survive and thrive in the Harlem Renaissance as it explores what it means to be Black in 2021, what it means to be Black in 1926, and the unique experience of being Black in both time periods.
Timewasters was created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who also starred in it, and ran...
Smith is currently writing and executive producing a U.S. remake of British comedy Timewasters for ABC through CBS Studios. The as-yet untitled time travel comedy will revolve around four Black twentysomething New Yorkers who accidentally end up in the year 1926, despite being deeply unenthusiastic about and deeply unequipped for time travel. The series follows the foursome’s often-bumbling attempts to survive and thrive in the Harlem Renaissance as it explores what it means to be Black in 2021, what it means to be Black in 1926, and the unique experience of being Black in both time periods.
Timewasters was created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who also starred in it, and ran...
- 8/24/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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