Cuckoo
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three / BBC Three (Online)
- 2012 - 2019
- 33 episodes (5 series)
BBC Three comedy starring Greg Davies as the constantly infuriated husband and father of a peculiar family. Also features Helen Baxendale, Esther Smith, Tyger Drew-Honey, Kenneth Collard, Juliet Cowan and more.
- Series 5, Episode 1 repeated Thursday 9th January at 11pm on BBC3
Streaming rank this week: 1,959
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Refinery 29, 15th January 2019Review: Cuckoo, Series Five, BBC Three
The fifth series of Cuckoo is very much what you might call the WTF series. WTF happen to Dale? And WTF is film superstar Andie MacDowell doing in a BBC Three series set in Lichfield?
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th January 2019Andie MacDowell is the new Cuckoo in the Thompson nest
Hollywood star Andie MacDowell has been confirmed to replace Taylor Lautner in the new series of Cuckoo, which debuts on Friday 4th January 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 7th December 2018Cuckoo, series 4 ep 1, review
There's still life and laughs in this daft family comedy.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 6th August 2018Cuckoo season four review
Having killed off its title character three seasons ago, this perky comedy revels in an anything-can-happen perversity.
Tim Dowling, The Guardian, 4th August 2018Review: Cuckoo, BBC Three, series 4, episode 1
All this really needs is a few more laughs.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd August 2018Greg Davies interview
"It's nice that I'm humiliating my mother internationally now."
Jessica Barrett, i Newspaper, 12th July 2018Andie MacDowell joins BBC Three comedy Cuckoo
Four Weddings And A Funeral star Andie MacDowell is the latest high-profile Hollywood actor to join BBC comedy Cuckoo.
Peter White, Deadline, 18th January 2018