Damon Wayans Jr.’s Two Shakes Entertainment Developing ‘Shuga: Baltimore’ At CBS Studios For Paramount+

Damon Wayans Jr.

Damon Wayans Jr.’s Two Shakes Entertainment Developing ‘Shuga: Baltimore’ At CBS Studios For Paramount+

Damon Wayans Jr. and Kameron Tarlow’s Two Shakes Entertainment is developing a new drama series titled “Shuga: Baltimore” at CBS Studios for Paramount+.

According to reports, “Shuga: Baltimore” is a spin-off of “MTV: Shuga,” the MTV Staying Alive Foundation’s long-running drama series and multimedia campaign that launched on Dec. 1, 2009, in Kenya and followed the lives of young people on the African continent.

Since then, the drama has had iterations in Nigeria, South Africa, Cote d’Ivoire, and India. The series has touched on numerous plot lines relating to HIV testing and prevention, COVID-19, family planning and contraception, transactional sex, gender-based violence, and condom use. The show included Lupita Nyong’o (“Black Panther”) and Thuso Mbedu (“The Woman King”).

Lupita Nyong’o

“Shuga: Baltimore” follows the lives of six individuals finding the beauty in their futures while surviving in a rapid tech gentrifying Maryland city where they will face love, resolve, loss and hope while confronting their new roles in an evolving world.

Reportedly, CBS Studios bought the format from the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. Executive producers include Damon Wayans Jr. and Kameron Tarlow for Two Shakes Entertainment and Georgia Arnold, Sara Piot, and Richard Warburton for MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Paramount Global.

Damon Wayans Jr.

Two Shakes was founded by Wayans Jr. and Tarlow with a commitment to taking characters who are traditionally fourth, fifth and sixth on a call sheet and making them first, second and third in a Two Shakes series.

According to reports, the MTV Staying Alive Foundation has proven impact with viewers of “MTV Shuga” being twice as likely to get tested for HIV; more aware of HIV self-testing, and young women are 55% less likely to test positive for chlamydia if they’ve been exposed to “MTV Shuga.”

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