“I just felt incredibly lucky to have any good news last year. He remembers worrying about having repeated himself in the speeches, which he had recorded in a rush assuming no one would ever see them. “I just can’t even begin to explain how surprised I was,” says Demetriou. And to have what happened happen.” What happened, it turned out, was two more Baftas. “It was a double celebration: seeing people for the first time in months and months. For the night they were joined by his sister and co-star Natasia, his girlfriend, and fellow cast member Al Roberts and his girlfriend (everyone had been tested in advance). His excellent comedy series Stath Lets Flats, about a Greek-Cypriot letting agent, was nominated for best scripted comedy and best male comedy performance. There’s a lot of gas before we go on stage’Īnd it has succeeded in leaving a note of real peril: will the odious, coked-up Julian force the Greeks out of the company? Will Sophie and Al ever be together? Will I ever recover from watching Stath and Katia exchange curt gratitudes for their mutual pleasure? We have one week to find out.Two weeks later, for the Bafta TV awards proper, he was better prepared. Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White: ‘We need the audience, but we fear them. But it’s the bizarre inability of its central characters to grasp reality that makes Stath so unique. The show is visually detailed and rich, with brilliantly-timed physical gags (here a sex scene so odd it was almost unbearable).

Here, a series of misadventures took Stath, Sophie, Sophie’s new boyfriend Cem, her best friend Katia and her would-be lover Al on an excruciating (but very mature) group date to a pizza restaurant – “Can I have the Tom Tom Cheesy?” Al (Al Roberts) is the fifth wheel on the double pizza date in Stath Lets Flats (Photo: Channel 4)

It is like watching toddlers pretend to be adults, imitating snatches of conversation or behaviours they have seen older people do on American TV. Particularly in the case of Stath ( played by the show’s creator Jamie Demetriou) – whose pubescent insecurities about his place in his family and the business are raw – and his sweet sister Sophie (his real sister, Natasia).

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