This Country
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has announced the winners of the RTS Programme Awards 2018
The RTS Programme Awards, chaired by Wayne Garvie, honours excellence across all genres of television programming and recognise exceptional actors, presenters, writers and production teams, as well as the programmes themselves.
The BBC scooped 17 awards for its programmes and talent, and also won the coveted RTS Channel of the Year award.
This Country, The Last Leg and Chewing Gum are among the nominees for Royal Television Society awards, announced this morning. The awards ceremony, hosted by Vernon Kay, will take place on Tuesday 20 March 2018 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.
TV comedy seems to be particularly full of idiots at the moment, from the youthful lovers in Mum to the shell-suited clowns in The Young Offenders. But my favourites – although it's a close run thing with the two young offenders – are probably Kurtan (Charlie Cooper) and Kerry Mucklowe (Daisy May Cooper), the stars of this beautifully observed spoof documentary looking at life among the disenfranchised in the Cotswolds.
It's the nature of the beast that with the best sitcoms, from Steptoe & Son to The Office, that as hard as the characters try things never change. And so it is with the second series of This Country, the inspired mockumentary following the antics of Cotswold cousins Kurtan and Kerry Mucklowe, played by Charlie and Daisy May Cooper, who also write the series.
BBC Three is giving fans the chance to see the new series of hit comedy This Country at a special screening.
The critically-acclaimed series, set in the Cotswold village of Northleach, is back for a second series and fans in Gloucestershire are being offered the chance to see it first.
A preview is being held in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on Monday 5th February. Tickets are free and are allocated through a ballot.
BBC Three has confirmed that a second series of critically-acclaimed mockumentary sitcom This Country has been commissioned. Later this year the cameras will return to the Cotswold village of Northleach to further explore the lives of cousins Kerry and Lee ‘Kurtan’ Mucklowe.
This Country launched in February 2017 on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer with a slot on BBC One. The show has had 4 million iPlayer requests to date.
Kerry and Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe, the stars of brilliantly funny mockumentary This Country, are joining this year's Red Nose Day line-up on BBC1 this Friday.
BBC camera crews have returned to the Cotswolds to follow the Comic Relief fundraising efforts of the hapless cousins.
This wonderful series ends with an episode that takes its cue from the classic sitcom idea that characters are trapped. From Steptoe & Son to Red Dwarf to The Office the comedy comes from people being unable to break away from each other. That certainly looks like the case here. Or is it?
There is a brilliant new interview with the creators of This Country, Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, here in which they say that the series is basically their experience of growing up in the Cotswolds. I presume, however, that their father was never accused of being a Peeping Tom as Kerry's dad Martin is in this week's episode of this fabulously funny mockumentary.
Kerry gets the entrepreneurial bug this week when her screaming mum lobs her Playstation out of the window and she needs money to buy a new one. You can see that this is going to end in tears, however, as soon as she and her cousin Kurtan go to a talk by successful businesswoman Shaz in the local village hall. Kerry comes away thinking she is going to be a Dragon’s Den judge and have her own helipad by selling sludge-coloured wheatgrass drinks around the village.
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