E4 has commissioned a new six-part comedy series about “the stupid things you end up doing when there’s nothing to do.”

Created by the BAFTA Award winning writing team of James Lamont and Jon Foster (Cuckoo, Amazing World of Gumball), Wasted will air on E4 next year.

The official synopsis reads: “Wasted focuses on four mates wasting their twenties in a West Country village. Morpheus, a geeky conspiracy theorist runs a mystical souvenir shop with his unambitious sister, Sarah. His scrounger best friend Kent sleeps on their sofa rent-free, and his secret crush, Alison, runs a new age healing business at the back of the shop.

“Mixing the misadventures of twenty something life with visually surreal set pieces, it’s about the very bad things that really good friends do to each other, when they’ve been living in each other’s pockets since school.”

Nerys Evans, Deputy Head of Comedy at Channel 4 commented: “We can’t wait to get Wasted with the talented and unique voices of James Lamont and Jon Foster. It’s exactly the kind of chaotic, hilarious and mischievous comedy we love having on the channel.”

Executive producer Richard Osborne added: “The experiences of young people living away from the big cities make for some very fertile comic ground and the scripts from Jon and James are hilarious. They’ve really nailed what it’s like to hang out with old mates – and at the same time make some huge leaps of imagination. So in terms of tackling rural comedy and an unexpected format – Wasted is a real stand-out show.”

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