Oh my crump! The cast of Stath Lets Flats on making their cult cringe comedy hit.His colleague Carole (Katy Wix) is heavily pregnant after their ill-fated one-night stand and he’s desperate to be a good father, his excitement manifesting by way of singing to strangers’ babies and crying in the back of cars. Even by the sitcom’s already lofty standards, the opening episode of series three is one of the funniest half-hours of TV I’ve seen, every performance utter gold.Īs we rejoin the dodgy world of the London rental market (courtesy of Michael & Eagle Lettings), we find Stath (Demetriou) nervously anticipating a major life change. Fortunately, the series makes a damn good case for this argument. Enjoyment of Stath requires an acceptance of one central idea: that saying things wrong is the funniest thing in the world. At a time when schedules were dominated by dramedies, thrillers with jokes and one-person shows using laughter to make serious points about identity and mental health (as it largely still is), Jamie Demetriou’s series was a rare thing: an out-and-out comedy. The series is produced by Roughcut Television, the company run by Ash Atalla - who shepherded Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s The Office to British screens.When Stath Lets Flats first aired on Channel 4 in 2018, it was an anomaly among the comedy landscape. Jamie Demetriou wrote the first three episodes of the show with Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper, and wrote the rest of the episodes for season one and two by himself. It also stars Demetriou’s sister Natasia Demetriou, best known for FX’s What We Do In The Shadows. Stath Lets Flats originally launched on Channel 4 in 2018 and its second season premiered in August 2019. remake of This Country with Jenny Bicks’ and Paul Feig. It marks the network’s latest British adaptation – it is also behind a U.S. He has also written for Kroll Show and was a producer on Aziz Ansari’s Master of None.įox Entertainment is the studio for the project, which has a script commitment.
Mande was a writer for the final three seasons of Parks and Recreation and also appeared in a number of episodes.
Mande (left), who also starred in Modern Family, will write and exec produce, while Demetriou and Ash Atalla, who runs Roughcut TV, the production company that produces the show, will also EP. 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming
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