Timewasters
- TV sitcom
- ITV2
- 2017 - 2019
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom about a struggling four-piece South London jazz band who travel back in time. Stars Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Kadiff Kirwan, Adelayo Adedayo, Samson Kayo, Liz Kingsman and more.
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Timewasters is no waste of time
Daniel Lawrence Taylor's sitcom about a time-travelling jazz band is well worth your time.
The Velvet Onion, 25th October 2017A new sitcom in which a young jazz quartet get trapped in 1926, thanks to a time machine accessed in a council block lift by a chap named Homeless Pete. It's not what you'd call subtle, exactly - were it not for all the swearing and intermittent threat of knife crime, it could be a children's show. That said, this opening double bill belts along entertainingly, with some fun moments of cultural mismatch along the way. Amusing Nigel Havers appearance, too.
John Robinson, The Guardian, 9th October 2017Critics' choice: Comedy in 5/4 time
This comedy by Daniel Lawrence Taylor is a few stages past promising, a show with a smart premise and a cast who are charmingly odd, provocative, stylish and silly -- the kind of multitasking few new sitcoms achieve.
Victoria Segal, The Times, 9th October 2017How sci-fi sitcom Timewasters subverted time-travel TV
Interplanar shows are everywhere at the moment, but ITV2's new comedy series raises the stakes, bringing in questions of race and class.
Homa Khaleeli, The Guardian, 23rd September 2017ITV2 orders new sitcom Timewasters
ITV2 has commissioned Timewasters, a new sitcom about a struggling four-piece South London jazz band who travel back in time to the 1920s.
British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2016