Timewasters: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Timewasters is a comedy about a struggling four-piece South London jazz band who travel back in time to the 1920's via a urine-sodden lift in a dilapidated block of flats.

Stuck in the past after their ‘time machine' is destroyed, our gang decide to explore, before quickly discovering that being young and black in the Jazz Age is a lot less genteel and a lot more shady than Downton Abbey had led them to believe.

Aided and abetted by a pair of oddball twins and some 1920s luminaries, the band are forced to navigate the parties and pitfalls of the Roaring Twenties while searching for a way back home. All the while, not missing the opportunity to introduce the Bright Young Things to some of the twenty-first century's finest tunes.

Series details

• Title: Timewasters
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
• Premiere date: 2017-10-09
• Final broadcast date listed: 2019-04-08
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV2
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.7/10
• TVMaze ID: 20526
• IMDb ID: tt7333970
• TVDB ID: 326978

Cast and credited roles

• Daniel Lawrence Taylor — Nick
• Kadiff Kirwan — Jason
• Adelayo Adedayo — Lauren
• Samson Kayo — Horace

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-10-09; final listed air date 2017-11-06; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2019-03-11; final listed air date 2019-04-08; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Timewasters on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.