Stevie Martin and Lola-Rose Maxwell have made an online pilot off the back of their successful sketches with 45 million views worldwide (and counting). 

screen time is an 8 minute (ish) online pilot for people who can’t get off their phones to watch on their phones so they can have a laugh about phones. Uber, cooking, shopping, that weird photo memory thing your phone makes, if it’s on a screen then it’s in screen time. 

Released on Stevie’s YouTube channel on April 5th, screen time is written by Stevie Martin, directed by Andrew Nolan, produced by Howard Cohen at whynow and stars Stevie and Lola-Rose Maxwell alongside Mark Silcox, Graham Dickson, Adam Riches and Bilal Zafar. 

Stevie Martin said of screen time: “I enjoyed being able to expand mine and Lola’s characters beyond looking at a webcam over zoom while saying ‘what????’ and ‘I’m afraid that’s incorrect’. It’s been surreal making long-form content, 8 minutes is basically a feature film so I might submit it to the Grammys. What I love about making things online is how much money and respect you get. I’m now really respected and very rich.”

Lola-Rose Maxwell added: "I’m busy on set doing the sort of work Stevie would like to get, so she’s made this quote up for me. I am the funniest thing in screen time and my hair is resplendent." 

Howard Cohen, producer of screen time and head of development at Whynow said, “Screen time is an amazingly unique project that satirises all our lives on our phones. Stevie and Lola have been a joy to develop and produce this pilot. It’s exciting for all of us to see the next steps for the show.” 

Andrew Nolan, director and editor of screen time said: "I’m just glad the whole process is over and I’ll never see these people again." 

Adam Riches, who plays one of the drivers in screen time, said: "Do you want a stupid quote or a serious one?"

Here's a teaser. The full video will be available from 5pm on 5th April on Stevie’s YouTube channel below or click here.