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''Cuckoo'' is a British sitcom which began airing on BBC Three on 25 September 2012. Written by Robin French and Kieron Quirke, the first series starred Greg Davies, Andy Samberg, Helen Baxendale, Tamla Kari and Tyger Drew-Honey. Samberg and Kari did not return for the second series and were replaced by Taylor Lautner and Esther Smith. The series launch became BBC Three's most-watched comedy launch, beating the record set by ''Bad Education'' which debuted the previous month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a408367/andy-sambergs-cuckoo-smashes-bbc-three-comedy-record.html )〕 Tyger Drew-Honey stated that there would be a second series〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Second series for BBC Three's Cuckoo? )〕 which was later confirmed by BBC Three. This later looked uncertain due to Andy Samberg's busy schedule, but in August 2013 the BBC told Digital Spy that they were still looking to go ahead with a second series, with them looking at a 2014 transmission. On 11 February 2014, it was announced that Andy Samberg would not return for the second series with Taylor Lautner replacing him as a new character described as "a handsome and mysterious young stranger". The second series began on 7 August 2014. On 15 May 2015 it was confirmed that Cuckoo would be returning for a third season with Taylor Lautner reprising his role as Dale Jr. On 10 October 2013, it was announced that an American remake of ''Cuckoo'' would be made.. A special episode was aired at Christmas 2014 and a third series was announced in May 2015 to be aired early in 2016. It is due to pick up where the Christmas Special left off.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unilad.co.uk/articles/cuckoo-is-coming-back-to-bbc-three-for-a-third-series/ )〕 ==Plot== 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 "hippy" with an all-loving attitude, who does not have a job and loves to take drugs. Series 2 Two years have passed and we learn that Cuckoo (Samberg) died in a climbing accident in the Himalayas, Dylan (Drew-Honey) is heading off to university and Rachel (Smith) is moving in with new boyfriend Ben (Lacey). Dale (Lautner), a young hirsute American arrives - claiming to be Cuckoo's son, searching for his father whom he has never met. Taking pity, Ken and Lorna ask him to stay. Series 3 Six months after Dale's dramatic departure at the end of the Christmas special of Series 2, Rachel is still heartbroken and missing Dale, but she has managed to salvage a certain friendship with her jilted former fiancé Ben (Lacey). Just as life looks like it's about to return to normal in the Thompson household a transformed Dale returns to shake things up all over again. Meanwhile, Ken and Lorna are preparing for the birth of their unexpected new baby, and their son Dylan (Tyger Drew Honey) is getting ready to leave for university.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tuppencemagazine.co.uk/cuckoo-series-3-003/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cuckoo (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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