Dewayne Perkins to Launch ‘I Swear We’re Friends,’ New Digital ‘Skitcom’ on YouTube (EXCLUSIVE)

“The Blackening” and “The Studio” star Dewayne Perkins is launching a new digital series, “I Swear We’re Friends,” exclusively on YouTube this fall.Perkins is independently releasing the six-episode “skitcom,” which is described as a “love letter to television,” with each episode inspired by a beloved show: “Girlfriends,” “Succession,” “24,” “My Wife & Kids,” “Charmed” and […] Dewayne Perkins ("The Studio," "The Blackening") wrote, directs and stars in the YouTube skitcom "I Swear We're Friends," launching Oct. 14. “The Blackening” and “The Studio” star Dewayne Perkins is launching a new digital series, “I Swear We’re Friends,” exclusively on YouTube this fall.Perkins is independently releasing

the six-episode “skitcom,” which is described as a “love letter to television,” with each episode inspired by a beloved show: “Girlfriends,” “Succession,” “24,” “My Wife & Kids,” “Charmed” and “Touched By An Angel.” With the series, Perkins — who got his start performing in his Chicago improv group 3Peat before the success of “The Blackening” put him on Hollywood’s radar — mixes the nostalgia of the past with the novelty of the present to create a “uniquely absurd comedic experience.” “Twenty years after ‘Noah’s Arc,’ why are Black gay male friendships still so rarely at the center of comedy?” a release describing