![]() Also in the office are Al (Alastair Roberts, another People Time co-star), who’s so painfully polite that he apologises when Stath accidentally smacks him in the face with a whiteboard, plus disillusioned Dean (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) and cheerful Marcus (the late Alex Beckett, who passed away in April this year). ![]() The most likely candidate to take the reins of Michael & Eagle Lettings once Vasos retires is Stath’s rival Carole (Katy Wix), the company’s top seller who speaks like she’s auditioning for The Apprentice. Jamie Demetriou has said that he went on various flat viewings as research for Stath Lets Flats, and rather frighteningly, some of the things that Stath says were taken verbatim from real estate agents… Whether he’s having a strop in the office because people keep answering the phone quicker than he does, or trying to show someone around a flat while the burglar alarm is going off, Stath is a walking disaster. Stath may have confidence in his own abilities, but in reality, the only talent he has is for making customers feel uncomfortable. Vasos is approaching 70 and wants to retire, but there’s no chance he is going to hand over the precious family business to his incompetent son. The set-up is that Stath (Jamie Demetriou) works at Michael & Eagle Lettings, a small London estate agent run by his dad, Vasos (Christos Stergioglou). And the result, judging from its first episode, is very funny indeed. ![]() But unfortunately nobody did, and for some reason known only to the BBC, People Time never went beyond a pilot episode.Īfter memorable roles in shows such as Fleabag and Murder In Successville over the past few years, Jamie Demetriou has now finally got his own sitcom in Channel 4’s Stath Lets Flats, starring alongside his sister Natasia. It was incredibly well-received, with the New Statesman suggesting it could be “the beginning of a sketch show renaissance”, while the Guardian said “someone needs to invest big in People Time because it should be on television and soon”. ![]() New estate agent sitcom Stath Lets Flats is worth signing on the dotted line for.īack in 2015, BBC Three released a comedy pilot called People Time – a sketch show starring seven writer-performers including siblings Jamie and Natasia Demetriou. ![]()
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