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…