EXCLUSIVE: A Black Lady Sketch Show head writer Lauren Ashley Smith is to write and exec produce the U.S. remake of British comedy Timewasters, which is in the works at ABC.ABC is developing the remake of the ITV2 jazz time-travelling comedy as part of its second cycle development process.The single-camera comedy comes from CBS Studios.Timewasters was created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who also starred in it, and ran for two seasons on ITV2 in the UK.
It was nominated for a BAFTA in 2018 for Best Scripted Comedy alongside Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum and Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe as well as winner BBC mockumentary This Country, which is being remade at Fox.The U.S.
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