Jamie Demetriou

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Sweetly stupid siblings Stath and Sophie (brother and sister Jamie and Natasia Demetriou) face more challenges in the estate agent comedy. While Stath's night of passion with Carole peters out, Sophie's college results are not what she had hoped for. Still, there is always a kebab to console them.

Jamie Demetriou stars in this low-rent but desirable sitcom. After last week's fire at one of the properties, Stath's position in the family business is looking vulnerable. So when he quits it for the coke and sparkling mineral water at rival agents Smethwicks, all seems well - but his move isn't made without misgivings.

Essential viewings: the sitcom that plumbs laughs from the hellscape of letting in London continues with skittish Stath (Jamie Demetriou in shiny suit and flop sweat) desperate to make up some ground against rival Carole. Surely securing tenants for a plum garden flat will be a slam-dunk for our wideboy hero?

Creator Jamie Demetriou's eponymous Stath, incompetent and impulsive and ambitious in equal measure, is desperate to prove himself in the estate agent business to his Greek-Cypriot father. It's a lovely timely take on the madnesses of the London-innit property market ("Two beds, spacious with a cooling draught, £1,750 pcm") in which the poor tenant will always come last, if not be accidentally assaulted. Stath's mix of charmlessness and utter desire to please is a comedy stalwart given a fresh Greco-Cyprian twist: and it spritzes and froths away, ably aided by an ensemble cast that features Demetriou's sister Natasia.

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Stath Lets Flats review

There's plenty to like in Jamie Demetriou's new comedy, but I'm going to need another viewing before exchanging contracts.