Charlie Cooper
- English
- Actor and writer
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Why you need to watch BBC Three's This Country
Comparisons have been drawn between This Country and The Office, and it isn't a stretch to see why.
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 4th April 2017Charlie and Daisy May Cooper reveal all
'We pitched it to ITV and The BBC. We ended up doing a pilot with ITV that went badly', Charlie honestly reflects.
Metro, 1st April 2017This Country is a gem
The faux fly-on-the-wall documentary is silly, funny, sometimes poignant, and oddly warm-hearted.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 15th March 2017Is This Country the best UK comedy since The Office?
What is most impressive, though, is that This Country, such an assured, beautifully paced series, which has earned deserved comparisons with The Office, The Inbetweeners and The Royle Family, has seemingly emerged out of nowhere.
Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph, 13th March 2017Review: This Country, Episode 5, BBC Three
We can laugh at the antics of the people in This Country - it is hard to decide who is more hopeless this week out of Kerry and Kurtan - but that doesn't mean we haven't also grown to care about them over these episodes. One more week to go, but hopefully there will be another series.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th March 2017Daisy May & Charlie Cooper interview
'It's basically our experience of growing up in the Cotswolds'.
Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 8th March 2017Review: This Country, Episode 3, BBC Three
It's a lovely script, with echoes of Victoria Wood, written by the stars, Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper. It does tread a very thin line between sympathy for these marginalised kids and comic piss-take at their stupidity, but it just about gets the balance right.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd February 2017Daisy and Charlie Cooper talk about This Country
"The characters are slightly heightened versions of ourselves," said Charlie. "But we wanted them to be best mates as well."
Ryan Merrifield, Wilts and Glocestershire Standard, 17th February 2017This Country, Episode 2 review
If you haven't seen This Country yet have a look. It might have well-used stylistic elements of both The Office and People Just Do Nothing about it, but it is sharply-written (by its stars Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper) and deftly performed.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th February 2017TV preview: This Country
This first episode of six is nominally about the annual village scarecrow competition, but is actually a bawdy sort of Dickensian romp with a satisfyingly violent twist. It isn't in fact as hog-whimperingly amusing as the later episodes, but it's still worth summoning up on your tablet. So my strong advice is to stick with the series.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 2nd February 2017