Jamie Demetriou
- British
- Actor, writer, editor, executive producer, comedian and composer
Press clippings
BAFTA TV Awards 2024 nominations
Big Boys, Dreaming Whilst Black, Extraordinary, Such Brave Girls, The Graham Norton Show, Late Night Lycett, Rob And Romesh Vs and Would I Lie To You? are amongst the nominees for the Bafta Television Awards 2024.
British Comedy Guide, 20th March 2024Jamie Demetriou wins Rose d'Or Award
A Whole Life With Jamie Demetriou has won the international Rose d'Or Award for Comedy Entertainment.
British Comedy Guide, 28th November 2023British shows leads comedy entertainment category in Rose d'Or Awards
A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou, Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat, Hold The Front Page, Prince Andrew: The Musical and Taskmaster are nominated for best comedy entertainment show in the international Rose d'Or Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 6th November 2023Gold to celebrate 25 years of The Royle Family
Gold is re-editing its 2010 documentary about The Royle Family to mark the forthcoming 25th anniversary of the sitcom.
British Comedy Guide, 1st August 2023Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2023 nominees
Big Boys, Derry Girls, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Everyone Else Burns, Extraordinary, Trying, Late Night Lycett, Taskmaster and The Graham Norton Show are amongst the nominees in the Edinburgh TV Awards 2023 shortlists.
British Comedy Guide, 27th June 2023BBC Comedy Festival will be in Cardiff on 24th to 26th May
The second annual BBC Comedy Festival - which features sessions for comedy creatives - will take place in Cardiff from Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th May.
British Comedy Guide, 12th April 2023Nick Mohammed and Julia Davis comedy in the works at Channel 4
Nick Mohammed and Julia Davis are developing a new comedy for Channel 4, based upon their characters from the 2014 pilot Morning Has Broken.
British Comedy Guide, 16th March 2023After the success of his lauded Channel 4 sitcom Stath Lets Flats, Jamie Demetriou is riding high on his signature mix of intrinsic oddness, vulnerability and physical clowning. He deploys all this and more in his new one-off Netflix comedy special, A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou.
A kind of rejigged Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life with the absurdist tone of Tim Robinson's I Think You Should Leave, AWL starts with Demetriou as a foetus, being advised about future life stages. Though frankly this concept soon collapses like an existential souffle, and the show becomes a series of loosely linked sketches, songs and general weirdness.
At times it doesn't work (sketches drag on far too long). Still, there's a strong supporting cast (Katy Wix, Sian Clifford) and moments of inspiration, from the toadying absurdity of royal wedding commentary to a Kiss Villa spoof of reality TV ("My best feature? I'd probably say my gums"). Things need to be tighter, but there are some decent laughs. Demetriou has a wayward, experimental comic energy still very much in the making.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 5th March 2023A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou review
There are a few dips as there are in all sketch shows, but the hit rate is incredibly high.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th February 2023A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou review
In many ways, A Whole Lifetime is tonally all over the place, but it's underpinned by a creative weirdness that feels like no one other than Demetriou could possibly have imagined. Plus there's lots of singing.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th February 2023