That’s just enough to get us on Stath’s side, as we watch him be denied the manager’s position at family business Michael & Eagle Lettings by his father, Vasos (Christos Stergioglou). State’s sweaty, desperate commitment to making a buck out of the housing crisis is played just right he repeatedly fails, but he just won’t give up, even when he asks one prospective tenant if they don’t like him and they give him a brutally honest answer. The show began as a “Blap”, a short online skit for All 4, and it’s development into a full series only highlights how well Jamie knows and inhabits his character. The gift of the gab was not given to him.Ĭo-written by Friday Night Dinner’s Robert Popper, the result shares that show’s same knack for awkward humour, whether that’s a 30-second monologue about a bench, a laugh-out-loud encounter with a pigeon, the excited discovery of cupboards and taps or a battle with home speakers. All the while, we cringe at his dreadful attempts at salesman banter. We join him on disastrous property viewings, which often see him damage the place, witness him trying to help an existing tenant with a pest problem, observe as he attempts to ingratiate himself with his colleagues, including Katy Wix’s wonderful Carole, or prove himself superior to them – like his arch rival Julian (Dustin Demri-Burns). Mostly hired because his boss is his dad, he stoops at nothing to get a contract closed, stealing clients and losing his patience on a daily basis. Jamie plays Stath, a lettings agent in London who is as incompetent as he is, well, incompetent. It’s a treat, then, to see his scene-stealing talents put centre stage in Stath Lets Flats, his hilarious Channel 4 comedy.

From Fleabag to Paddington 2, Jamie Demetriou has been slowly infiltrating our screens to demonstrate his comic timing and versatility.

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