

Series three arrives today, after a delay due to the pandemic and the packed schedules of its increasingly in-demand cast. Which fans have had to, because the brilliant second series which won all the awards Bafta could give it, aired all the way back in summer 2019. It’s the TV equivalent of void-fill foam starch packing peanuts technically edible but with zero nutritional value.Īnd then there’s Stath Lets Flats, a comedy so rich in nutrients you could live off it for well over a year. There’s every appearance of a joke, but nothing inside, just a vacuum where a joke might go. There are rhythmic set-ups and punch lines and pauses for laughter, but what’s being said is… words. The series is produced by Roughcut Television, the company run by Ash Atalla - who shepherded Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s The Office to British screens.As you’ll know if you haven’t set your Netflix account to stop autoplaying previews, a lot of comedy writing isn’t really comedy writing at all, but writing in the shape of comedy. Jamie Demetriou wrote the first three episodes of the show with Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper, and wrote the rest of the episodes for season one and two by himself. It also stars Demetriou’s sister Natasia Demetriou, best known for FX’s What We Do In The Shadows.

Stath Lets Flats originally launched on Channel 4 in 2018 and its second season premiered in August 2019. remake of This Country with Jenny Bicks’ and Paul Feig. It marks the network’s latest British adaptation – it is also behind a U.S. He has also written for Kroll Show and was a producer on Aziz Ansari’s Master of None.įox Entertainment is the studio for the project, which has a script commitment.

Mande was a writer for the final three seasons of Parks and Recreation and also appeared in a number of episodes. Mande (left), who also starred in Modern Family, will write and exec produce, while Demetriou and Ash Atalla, who runs Roughcut TV, the production company that produces the show, will also EP. CBS Closes Upfront, Fox Wrapping Amid Strikes & Soft Advertising Market
