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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This Country: Return to Planet Mucklowe
Daisy and Charlie Cooper are back for a second series of their hit comedy, and it's funnier than ever.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 22nd February 2018TV/Online review: This Country, BBC Three
The comedy here is very much in the margins. In a look or an aside.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st February 2018Daisy and Charlie Cooper interview
The brother-sister duo behind the revolutionary BBC comedy on their childhood feuds, "the Mr Perkins scandal", and stalking Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in Cirencester.
The New Statesman, 20th February 2018Daisy May Cooper: "I might change my name by deed poll"
The actor and writer on the return of her cult sitcom This Country, shopping at Sports Direct and college days with James Norton.
Michael Hogan, The Observer, 11th February 2018Comedy.co.uk Awards 2017 shortlist
The shortlisted TV and radio shows for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2017 have been announced. 60 programmes are in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title.
British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2018Weird to think that we never saw the funniest character on television this year. Kerry's mum was a screeching, furious off-screen presence, constantly howling abuse at her daughter from three rooms away during the magnificent - and criminally overlooked - This Country. The woman was magnificent.
Stuart Heritage and Sarah Hughes, The Guardian, 22nd December 2017BBC Three has released some excellent comedy over the last few years -- Fleabag, Pls Like, People Just Do Nothing -- but This Country marks the crowning jewel of 2017's output. Basically The Office for the Cotswolds, the series focusses on Kerry and Kurtain, two imbecilic cousins who cause trouble for everyone around them. Writers/siblings Charlie and Daisy Cooper play the bumbling duo with hilarious ease, poking fun at life in the West Country while also showing compassion for the people they're mocking. Where Hot Fuzz focussed on an entire town, though, This Country boils everything down to our insular, arrogant, terrible twosome.
Jack Shepherd, The Independent, 21st December 2017The 20 best TV comedies of 2017
Here - in no particular order - are the 20 best shows from 2017.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 11th December 2017The best comedy is written in turbulent times
If, in 2017, you needed respite from our dire economic prospects, the whims of Donald Trump or the Damoclean sword of North Korea, you could find it on British television. Three of the year's best new shows - Pls Like, This Country and Back - were welcome proof that reports of the death of the sitcom have been greatly exaggerated.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 10th December 2017Writers' Guild Awards 2018 shortlists
The shortlists for the Writers' Guild Of Great Britain Awards 2018 have been announced. Nominees include the writers of This Country, Back, Inside No. 9 and Sarah Kendall, John Finnemore and Kevin Eldon.
British Comedy Guide, 5th December 2017