EXCLUSIVE: Fox is doubling down on British remakes with a U.S. version of quirky Channel 4 comedy Stath Lets Flats as its latest adaptation.The network is developing a remake as Bren Rents, a single-camera comedy from The Good Place writer Joe Mande.Stath Lets Flats, which airs on HBO Max in the U.S.
was one of the big winners at this summer’s BAFTA awards.The show follows an incompetent rental agent, played by creator Jamie Demetriou, who played the bus suitor with big teeth in Fleabag’s first season.
In the show, Demetriou runs a Greek-Cypriot letting agency in London, owned by his father. It has echoes of the original BBC version of The Office or Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge character.Mande (left), who also starred in Modern Family,
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