Situationships

Writer / Creator

Yemi Oyefuwa & Sheila Nortley

Genre

Comedy

Episodes

6 x 30

Budget

£500K per ep

Studio | Co Pro

TBC

Commissioner

TBC

Status

Pitching

Log Line

After agreeing to participate in a research study on black love, a group of friends open a Pandora's box into the world of modern dating - exposing the good, the bad and the ugly sides of looking for love as a black millennial.

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Synopsis

Situationships follows 3 black girls in their early 30s as they navigate life, love and learnings in London. Each episode will centre around a different type of ‘ship’; from situationships to relationships to entanglements and one night stands - friends with benefits, fuck buddy sitch, bamboozlement by hobosexual ... this show will explore it all.Meet EFUA and ADEOLA, seekers of love and dick, respectively. We’ve got the loveable Efua, otherwise known as the “pick me” who is desperate to find the man who will claim her as his girlfriend. Then Adeola, the female alpha ”man-eater” who knows just what she wants from men and how to get it with no strings attached! Thicker thanthieves, these ladies couldn’t be any more different - but when it comes to ride or die - these are your pair.Which is why it was so easy for Efua to convince Adeola to partake in a research group for a dating app currently in beta testing. Adeola’s only demand is they include TERRI on this adventure - Terri whom they both met at university, but is admittedly closer to Adeola. But Efua doesn’t have a choice and off the three of them go.The aim of the app is simple - match single Black Brits with each other and watch the black love we’re all gagging to see on Love Island flourish irl. Except, it’s never that simple.Though Efua is the driving force behind this adventure, she still can’t seem to catch a break, her desperation seeps through every date and keeps her within the situationship status she’s trying to avoid. Meanwhile, Adeola immediately pairs with a suitable candidate and is thrust into a relationship quicker than she can say ‘sharedcalendars’ and Terri is still put on a pedestal before she even opens her mouth.

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