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This Country. Image shows from L to R: Kerry Mucklowe (Daisy May Cooper), Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe (Charlie Cooper). Copyright: BBC
This Country

This Country

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Three
  • 2017 - 2020
  • 19 episodes (3 series)

Mockumentary series exploring the lives of young people in modern rural Britain. Stars Daisy May Cooper, Charlie Cooper, Paul Chahidi, Trevor Cooper, Michael Sleggs and more.

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Series 3, Episode 1 - A Letter From Sluggs

This Country. Image shows from L to R: Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe (Charlie Cooper), Kerry Mucklowe (Daisy May Cooper)
The film crew arrives back in the village to discover some very sad news about a popular local resident. Meanwhile, Kerry faces some financial difficulties, so Kurtan steps in to help support her.

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Broadcast details

Date
Monday 17th February 2020
Time
7pm
Channel
BBC Three
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Daisy May Cooper Kerry Mucklowe
Charlie Cooper Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe
Paul Chahidi Reverend Francis Seaton
Celeste Dring Kayleigh Hudson
Daisy May Cooper (as Ivy Woodcock) Sue Mucklowe (Voice)
Guest cast
Gareth Williams Griff Crothers
Sartaj Garewal Paul Walthers
Writing team
Daisy May Cooper (as Daisy Cooper) Writer
Charlie Cooper Writer
Daisy May Cooper (as Daisy Cooper) Story
Charlie Cooper Story
Tom George Story
Simon Mayhew-Archer Story
Production team
Tom George Director
Simon Mayhew-Archer Producer
Stephen McCrum Executive Producer
Daisy May Cooper (as Daisy Cooper) Executive Producer
Charlie Cooper Executive Producer
Tom George Executive Producer
Simon Mayhew-Archer Executive Producer
Francis Gilson Line Producer
Craig Harbour Editor
Mo Holden Production Designer
Jane Ripley Casting Director
Nick Martin Director of Photography
Ashley-Ann Andrews (as Ashley Ann Andrews) Costume Designer
Emily Bilverstone Make-up Designer
Sam Morley Graphics
Matt Bell 1st Assistant Director
Gregor Sharp Commissioning Editor

Videos

Kerry is working at a recycling centre

Kerry Mucklowe has recently run into some unforeseen financial issues and has taken up a position that plays to her strengths.

Featuring: Daisy May Cooper (Kerry Mucklowe) & Charlie Cooper (Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe).

Deleted Scene: Kurtan's New Friends

Kurtan has found some like-minded local friends and has a few things to get off his chest.

Featuring: Daisy May Cooper (Kerry Mucklowe) & Charlie Cooper (Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe).

Press

It's the third and final series of Cotswolds mockumentary comedy This Country (also streamed on BBC Three), written by and starring siblings Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, as Kerry and Kurtan.

The opening episode featured lovable monster Kerry and the wonderfully eerie Kurtan coming to terms with the death of Sluggs (their real life co-star, Michael Sleggs, died last year, aged 33). A letter left by Sluggs revealed that he and Kerry were responsible for a broken holiday bed that Kurtan was blamed for. Furious at Kerry ("Her only loyalty is to herself, staffies and the TV channel Dave"), Kurtan ensured that Kerry lost her new job at a recycling plant ("At the end of the day I'm a very vindictive person. It's what makes me me"). The episode finished with the pair rebonding over how proud they were of Sluggs for "shit-stirring from beyond the grave".

What a great tribute to Mr Sleggs. The strength of This Country is keynotes that lie not in cruelty or mockery, but rather affection and silliness, and all so sharply done. I, for one, will miss this feral, witty dance around the Cotswolds.

Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 23rd February 2020

We are back in the Cotswolds with cousins Kerry and Kurtan for the third season of this deadpan mockumentary. With news of the death of a beloved local resident to contend with and Kerry forced to take a job - thanks to an alpaca-related debt - Kurtan steps in to provide some much-needed domestic help. A revelation from beyond the grave soon throws things into a spin for the mismatched pair, who are real-life sister and brother. Pitch-perfect and expertly paced. Also streaming on BBC Three.

Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 17th February 2020

This Country Series 3 review

Everything works in perfect concert to portray this deep, unspoken friendship between Kerry and Kurtan, enduring through some testing times.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th February 2020

Interview: This Country's vicar Paul Chahidi

"I'm going to give Andrew Scott a run for his money as a sexy priest".

Rupert Hawksley, i Newspaper, 17th February 2020

This Country review

Like The Office at its best, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's Cotswolds-set mockumentary remains hilarious, potent and exquisite right to the end.

Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 17th February 2020

This Country, BBC, review

Still the funniest show on television.

Rupert Hawksley, i Newspaper, 17th February 2020

This Country, series 3 episode 1 review

A bittersweet return for the delightful sitcom.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 17th February 2020

This Country series three review

Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's hilarious mockumentary is as infinitely quotable as ever.

Flora Carr, Radio Times, 17th February 2020

Review: This Country

BBC Three's sublime rural mockumentary This Country is back for what creators Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper have said is its final series. When we last saw the Mucklowe cousins (played by the Cooper siblings) just over a year ago in 'The Aftermath', Kerry was finally coming to terms with the selfishness of her dad, whom she had always idolised, while Kurtan was struggling to cope with losing his job at the bowls club.

Sophie Davies, The Custard TV, 17th February 2020

Daisy May and Charlie Cooper interview

"We had nothing before This Country. It was humiliating... we couldn't even afford McDonald's".

Ellie Harrison, The Independent, 16th February 2020

This Country, series three, episode one review

The comedy about Cotswold cousins Kerry and Kurtan Mucklowe returns with a bold and strangely poignant opening episode.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th February 2020

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