

Which character is his favourite to dream up lines for? “I enjoy writing for them all equally, but I think because she backs herself more than any other character, Carole is the most fun to write,” he says. “I’m now in a position where I have eight, 10 characters I know and adore even more than I did in series one,” he says. He has a big ensemble cast but only 23 and a half minutes in each episode to try to do them all justice. Billionaire Roy’s Club: Succession makes being rich look ridiculous – and we love them for itĭemetriou says he struggled with this series.All hail Ryan Murphy, Hollywood’s $300m king of phoning it in.Betrayals, Bravo and broads behind bars: How the Real Housewives came crashing down to earth.“Each series tracks Stath’s attempt at growth and his failure at it. “Stath’s so overwhelmed with delight that he’s going to be a dad that he hasn’t really noticed things are in dire straits,” says Demetriou. When we reunite with the employees of Michael & Eagle Lettings, they have just realised Julian frittered away all the business’s money and, having been evicted, they are working out of Stath’s father’s house. Carole (Katy Wix) was pregnant with his child and Julian (Dustin Demri-Burns), who’d taken over the family business, had fallen off a balcony and died. The last time we saw Stath, at the end of season two, he was living in his car and incessantly snogging his new girlfriend Katia.

After five years of development, the first series of Stath Lets Flats aired in 2018. The first version of the character was broadcast as one of three five-minute shorts he made for Channel 4’s Comedy Blaps in 2013. Demetriou has poured his heart and soul – and many years of his life – into Stath.
