Cuckoo - Well the first part.

BBC Three is a channel that only the BBC could create, it just feels like if you are over, say, thirty five you are not really that welcome. I'm too old for MTV, but it doesn't have that same 'get lost you old fart' vibe. It has Awkward, The Valleys, and Geordie Shore and you kind of feel, sort of, included. Where as BBC Three has endless Seth McFarlaine, that posh bloke with the teen wolf beard, and Russell Howard, who if anyone over thirty says they like him is lying. It kind of feels like one of those signs on a teenager's door that says Keep Out!So quite what possessed me to watch Cuckoo is still a mystery. I say watch, I mean the first fifteen minutes.

The premise of this sit com is as old as sit coms themselves. Middle class parents welcome back their travelling daughter only to find she has married a totally unsuitable oddball. Let the hilarity ensue. The central casting weirdo, in this case, is Cuckoo ( Andy Samberg) he is a new age, world travelling, hippie type. Yes, he is cuckoo and he is in their nest, see what the writers have done there? They don't just throw this stuff together you know. The parents Ken and Lorna are well played by Greg Davies, who always looks like he would fit in well in Middle-Earth to me, and Helen Baxendale, who has probably been in about seven similar sit coms to date. They are naturally shocked as daughter Rachel ( Tamla Kari ) introduces the new spouse. The family have a hip teenage son, Dylan, there is  always the 'so what' sibling. Dylan is played by Outnumbered's Tyger Drew Honey, or is that Honey Dew Melon, I never can work it out, whatever, he still sounds like he should be one of Jamie Oliver's kids. Plus, if the other two children, in Outnumbered, have grown as much as him, I think they can kiss all that aren't the little kids cute and funny goodbye for the next series.

We had Cuckoo's first meal, with the family, and Cuckoo keeping them up all night and that's where I'd had enough, I really didn't want to stick around.  I'm sure there will be an episode where Ken plays golf with his boss only for Cuckoo to mess it up and Lorna's parents come for dinner, only for them to be as 'hip' as Cuckoo while Ken and Lorna look on in horror. I'll let the BBC Three audience laugh at this stuff, the older amongst us have seen it all before. 

Over.