Cuckoo (TV series)
| Cuckoo | |
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| Created by |
Robin French Kieron Quirke |
| Written by | Robin French Kieron Quirke |
| Directed by | Ben Taylor |
| Starring |
Andy Samberg Greg Davies Helen Baxendale Tamla Kari Tyger Drew-Honey Taylor Lautner Esther Smith Matt Lacey |
| Composer(s) | Oli Julian |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Dan Hine |
| Running time | 30 minutes* |
| Production company(s) | Roughcut Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Three |
| Original release | 25 September 2012 – Present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Cuckoo is a British sitcom that began airing on BBC Three on 25 September 2012, repeating on BBC One, and in 2016 began airing worldwide on Netflix.
Written by Robin French and Kieron Quirke, Cuckoo stars Andy Samberg, Taylor Lautner, Greg Davies, Tamla Kari and Helen Baxendale. The series launch became BBC Three's most-watched comedy launch, beating the record set by Bad Education, which debuted the previous month. Greg Davies was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. At the British Comedy Awards, Cuckoo was nominated for Best New Comedy Programme and Greg Davies was nominated for Best TV Comedy Actor.
Following the success of series one, BBC ordered a second series, but it looked uncertain due to Samberg's busy schedule. In February 2014, it was announced that Samberg would not return for the second series, with Taylor Lautner replacing him as Cuckoo's long-lost lovechild Dale. The second series began on 7 August 2014. On 4 April 2016, Cuckoo was commissioned for two more series.
A U.S. version of the series has filmed a pilot for America's NBC television network.
Series 1
Cuckoo is set in Lichfield, Staffordshire, (external scenes are mostly filmed in Slough, Berkshire, and Amersham, Buckinghamshire), home to the Thompson family. When Ken (Davies) and Lorna (Baxendale) collect their daughter Rachel (Kari) from the airport, they learn that she has returned from her gap year before medical school having married Dale "Cuckoo" Ashbrick (Samberg), an eccentric American hippie with an exuberantly loving attitude who does not have a job and loves to take drugs.
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