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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YouTube star Flula Borg to lead US adaptation of Cuckoo
YouTube star Flula Borg will lead the US pilot adaptation of Cuckoo on NBC.
Ben Lee, Digital Spy, 24th February 2015US remake of Cuckoo back on the cards
An American remake of BBC Three comedy Cuckoo is back on the cards.
Chortle, 29th January 2015Radio Times review
The Lichfield love triangle is finally resolved in this delightfully silly special: Rachel is struggling to choose between nice-but-dull boyfriend Ben and the hunky-but-bonkers American who just happens to be the son of her late husband. As always, the real reason to tune in is Greg Davies who plays curmudgeonly dad Ken and inevitably ends up in a Santa Claus suit cussing wide-eyed children.
Meanwhile, Mum - a trilling Helen Baxendale - jumps to the wrong conclusion after suffering a fainting fit. Hang in there for the musical interlude crooned by Outnumbered veteran Tyger Drew-Honey.
Claire Webb, Radio Times, 24th December 2014There's Christmassy tension in Lichfield as Rachel's secret clinch with Dale Jr has become a bit of an elephant in the room. The lavish gifts of topiary won't likely help keep the secret from Ben either, who is plotting to ask for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile, Lorna, being a massive fan of Christmas, is shocked but also slightly thrilled to find that she may have been the subject of an immaculate conception.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 19th December 2014Cuckoo - Series 2 review
Neither rejecting what it had built in the first series nor building upon it, it kind of just sat there and never figured out what it could change without Andy Samberg.
Caroline Preece, TV Equals, 13th September 2014Cuckoo - Ken at Work episode review
Cuckoo has finally gotten its groove back. I just hope that next week's finale is just a strong, so that we can go out on a high.
Caroline Preece, TV Equals, 5th September 2014Cuckoo - Funeral episode review
The jokes that were decipherable you could see coming a mile off, like Dale's mistaken identity as Rafferty's lover, but others were either overly tired or totally confusing.
Caroline Preece, TV Equals, 29th August 2014Cuckoo: why swapping one star for another doesn't work
The BBC3 sitcom replaced Andy Samberg with Taylor Lautner, but as Two and a Half Men and Midsomer Murders have proven, TV shows rarely survive a serious personnel change.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 21st August 2014Review: Cuckoo episode 2.2
I know many people will disagree, but as a fan of well-orchestrated gross-out comedy, this episode also had me laughing during its outrageous climax.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 15th August 2014Radio Times review
Beleaguered Ken goes away for the weekend, leaving the family to run riot and the show to soldier on without Greg Davies. It plays safe with a standard frat-house/Inbetweeners story: bluntly randy Dylan (Tyger Drew-Honey) is told by his cold, beautiful classmate Zoe (Holly Earl) that she'll take his virginity if he throws a house party while Dad's absent. The influx of hungry ravers gives mystic Dale his chance to show he can run his late father's baked potato van.
Cuckoo's telegraphed plots and wild implausibles make it an uneven watch, but the good bits are great. As the cartoonish Dale, Twilight heart-throb Taylor Lautner shows he's got fine comic timing as well as beauty, the swine.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 14th August 2014