We added an extra £1,000 to every listing, but still people kept wanting to come in.” Kingsley describes the show’s opening episode – in which we meet Stath, sister Sophie (Natasia Demetriou, real-life sister of Jamie), their father Vasos (Christos Stergioglou, best known for Greek drama Dogtooth) and colleagues including mild-mannered Al (Alastair Roberts) – as “a super-fast shot of energy … but when it settles into its rhythm it becomes more contemplative.” “The art department had made it just a little bit too cheap, like £600 a month for a two-bed.
“When we started shooting, we had people looking at the fake listings in the window ,” recalls the show’s director, Tom Kingsley. And Michael & Eagle, the family business he is desperate to take over, isn’t a dysfunctional bar (a la It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) or a dysfunctional hotel (like Fawlty Towers) but a dysfunctional letting agency, marketing overpriced dives for the post-post-recession age (“Spacious with a cooling draft, £1,750pcm”, reads one on-screen caption). Played by Demetriou himself, Stath is a classic comedy trope – the deluded but lovable hero – knowingly updated for 2018. Think David Brent, had he been brought up on afternoon repeats of Location, Location, Location and was generally a bit more hopeless. The title character of the debut TV sitcom from comedian Jamie Demetriou is a well-meaning but wholly inappropriate property seller from north London via Cyprus. This isn’t the sort of patter salespeople usually give potential customers, but then Stath isn’t your average salesperson.
“It’s a lovely flat, there’s no willies.” I can see his willy!” says an estate agent to two horrified-looking women, as he takes a peek into the bathroom and pulls the door closed. “Oh blimey hell, there’s a man in the bathroom.
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