BBC star teases return of Bafta-winning sitcom saying it would be ‘rude not to’

Charlie Cooper has teased the return of BBC’s beloved This Country after it wrapped up in March 2020.

Starring in the show alongside his real life sister Daisy May Cooper – as cousins Kerry and Kurtan Mucklowe – fans have been dreaming of the day everyone’s favourite village dwellers would be back on our screens.

The mockumentary bulldozed into the comedy world in 2017 with the lovable – but hopeless – Kerry and Kurtan’s humble countryside Cotswolds life, where they mainly hang around annoying the Jesus out of the local do-gooding vicar.

From the invention of Nighthawkers – birthday Facebook prowlers who comment on your wall at midnight on the dot – and Kurtan’s race to get the best TKMaxx deals when they come in, and to Kerry’s mum’s explanation of what a BLT is – it’s one of the most quotable shows in recent history.

While earlier this year Daisy teased we could see some sort of Christmas special revival on the horizon, this seems to be looking an even more likely possibility in the (hopefully not so distant) future.

Speaking on The One Show, when asked about a possible return to their comedy roots with Am I Being Unreasonably star sister Daisy, Charlie revealed: ‘Yeah we’re working on something – it’s not This Country, but it’s something.

He added: ‘I think at some point we’ll have to revisit it. It feels like it would be rude not to really.

‘I always wonder what they’d be up to now, Kerry and Kurtan, how would they have taken the pandemic?’

It’s funny you should say that Charlie, because we’ve been wondering the exact same thing. It might just be the comedy relief we’ve all been waiting for to see Kurtan freaking out over a socially distanced walk, and Kerry navigating facemasks.

While the siblings are still best-known for their This Country roles, both have gone on to do their own projects – which actually happen to be quite similar, as they are both currently investigating the supernatural.

While Daisy is releasing her new book Hexy Bitch – all about the paranormal and her experience with it – Charlie appears on Myth Country this evening at 9pm, investigating aliens.

Charlie’s not as much of a UFO believer as his sister and mum, he confessed.

‘It got a bit toxic during filming and I had to leave the family WhatsApp group chat. I have since been reinstated,’ he joked.

Meanwhile, fans will be chomping at the bit for a This Country return, after three seasons of small town antics.

The series gained over 52million views on BBC iPlayer and also stars their real dad, who play’s Kerry’s distant father Martin Mucklowe in the series.

This Country also starred their good friend Michael Sleggs as Slugs. He died in 2019 of heart failure, leaving Daisy and Charlie ‘heartbroken’.

‘Michael was utterly unique. He was kind, he was caring, he was loving. One of the most considerate, generous and gentle friends you could ever wish for and funny,’ they wrote in tribute.

In her memoir Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her, Daisy wrote about how This Country almost turned out much worse when their script got taken over by someone else and turned into something unrecognisable.

She recalled: ‘I want you to suspend disbelief for one moment: Kerry is not Kerry any more. She does not steal stuff from the local shop. She is not the spoilt, selfish, flawed, yet lovable character we created. She is bland and washed out and… What’s the word they keep using? Oh yes… “likeable”.

‘Suddenly Kerry is saving dogs and being nice to old people and raising money for the local hospice.’

The worse bit though, was that Kurtan – who in this iteration would have been called Dale – played by Charlie, would be Kerry’s love interest.

‘But this is not Kerry!’ wrote Daisy, adding: ‘Kerry is more asexual than a f***ing amoeba.’

The One Show airs at 7pm on BBC One every weekday.