Lauren Ashley Smith, head writer of HBO’s
A Black Lady Sketch Show, has been tapped to write and executive produce the U.S. remake of the popular British time-travel comedy,
Timewasters for ABC.
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Deadline reports that the single-camera comedy, originally from Daniel Lawrence Taylor and ITV2 in the UK,will come from CBS Studios as a part of ABC’s second cycle development process for 2021. Alongside Ashley Smith, Lawrence Taylor is also expected to executive produce as are Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice from Big Talk Productions, the British production company behind the original. Currently titled
The Untitled Time Travel Comedy, the U.S. version will center “four Black twenty-something 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