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New TV comedy set to satirise letting agents
TV channel E4 has commissioned a new TV comedy series featuring a fictional incompetent letting agent working in north London. Set to run for six episodes and air next year the comedy will star Jamie Demetriou playing Stath, a hapless intern working for his family’s poorly-run agency Michael & Eagle Lets. E4 says the comedy will follow letting agent Stath (pictured) as he struggles to climb the career ladder in London’s cut-throat property market. The character first appeared three years ago as a short sketch on a Channel 4 shorts series called Comedy Blaps but has now been developed by Demetriou and co-writer Robert Popper, who is best known for his 2011 Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner. Called simply Stath the programme is to be produced by Roughcut TV but is unlikely to portray letting agents in a good light. According to its producers the plot is going to revolve closely around the ineptitude of both Stath and his ‘equally inept’ sister Sophie. “In a modern, overcrowded London the business of finding tenants to rent flats should be pretty easy but Stath makes it a struggle”, a Roughcut TV spokesperson said. “Jamie is one of the UK’s best new…
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Phil and Kirstie favourites to join Great British Bake Off
Speculation is growing that the UK’s most famous property personalities Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer stand a good chance of being the next presenters of BBC flagship programme The Great British Bake Off. After Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc announced they were to leave the show, along with Mary Berry, the hunt has been on for a new duo to front the programme. But although stars such as Jennifer Saunders, Davina McColl, Clare Balding, Geri Halliwell and Masterchef winner Lisa Faulkner have been in the frame, Kirstie and Spencer are now one of the betting favourites, placed third most likely at 7-1 by Betway. On Saturday it was revealed by Channel 4 that Phil and Kirstie, who are still contracted to the channel and continue to make Location, Location, Location and other series, had met the channel’s bosses to discuss a potential move from property to property tea. The duo are reported to have told bosses they are the “perfect fit” and a Channel 4 spokesperson told the Daily Mirror that “they poke fun at each other and are not afraid to go along with innuendos [and] they can match, if not better, Mel and Sue”. Other advantages of Phil…
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