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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
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Recently returned to Adult Swim, the Afro-retro-futurist-absurdist “Lazor Wulf” was one my favorite shows of 2019, and it shows no signs of being less so in its second season. Arriving as if fully formed from the collective head of creator Henry Bonsu and his writers, animators and voice artists, it creates a perfectly real impossible place you visit as if a foreign country, whose language and practices you might imperfectly understand but whose authority you grant. “Lazor Wulf” knows what it’s about, even if it will take you a minute to catch up or maybe you never quite catch up, which is after all one of the pleasures of travel, to be a little disoriented in a rich and settled Somewhere Else.
CREDIT: Bandcamp/Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
In 1969, folk trio Crosby, Stills & Nash recorded and released a cryptic chestnut entitled “Guinnevere.” The next year, two jazz masters tried their hands at the tune: flautist Herbie Mann emerging with a faithful instrumental cover, and trumpeter Miles Davis reinterpreting it as an intergalactic, unrecognizable epic that neared the 20-minute mark. For the live version appearing on
Axiom, New Orleans bandleader Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is most interested in Davis’ vision of the song. Electric piano, sitar and a hepcat languor are out in favor of djembe, congas and a hothouse zest. Here, Adjuah who plays trumpet and reverse flugelhorn, among other instruments and his band condense “Guinnevere,” investing it with a pointed verve. The horns veer from woozy to celestial to frenetic, with Corey Fonville’s drums, in particular, elevating this music to new, daring heights. –