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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rachel Aroesti

Ellie and Natasia review – this outrageously good sketch show is like modern French and Saunders

Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White in Ellie & Natasia.
Impeccable … Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White in Ellie & Natasia. Photograph: Colin Hutton/BBC/Nit Television

You might recognise Natasia Demetriou from her star turn as imperious vampire Nadja in the hit mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows, or from her brother Jamie’s Channel 4 sitcom Stath Lets Flats, in which she plays the titular estate agent’s meek, vacantly grinning sister. You might also recognise Ellie White from Stath (she is stony-faced postwoman Katia), or as an impeccably plummy Princess Beatrice in royal spoof The Windsors.

You probably won’t recognise Demetriou and White from their sketch double act. Alhough the pair have been performing together for many years, their idiosyncratic brand of chaotic yet minutely observed character comedy has never had a proper TV platform. Until now: Ellie and Natasia (BBC Three) extends their 2019 pilot of the same name into six 15-minute episodes.

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