47 h. ago Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch review – the This Country siblings are brilliant together

This ghost-hunting docuseries around various ‘haunted’ locations is a deeply flimsy premise. But you cannot fake the kind of chemistry this brother and sister haveThe last time I reviewed something with Charlie Cooper in as “himself”, he, or “he”, was visiting folkloric hotspots around the British Isles as the presenter of Myth Country. I was beguiled by the impossibility of identifying where his most famous creation, Kurtan, in the brilliant, heartbreaking comedy This Country, written by Charlie and his sister Daisy May, left off and the real Cooper began. Or, if you prefer, where the real Cooper left off and Kurtan began. What were we to make of him listening with apparently genuine delight on his face to a man playing an old local tune on a recorder before announcing with perfect Kurtanish sensibility and timing that it was because: “In the wrong hands, it’s murder”? He watched with admiration as a friend with a divining rod approached and re-approached some ancient stones near –...

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47 h. ago Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch review – It’s such a delight spending time with this pair

The sibling stars of ‘This Country’ are back together on screen, and this time they’re scoping out the nation’s most haunted spots

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3 d. ago Daisy May Cooper admits to DRUGGING her parents with sleeping pills so she could romp with her teenage boyfriend in family home after years of 'toxic parenting'

Eight years ago, Cirencester's most famous siblings, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, became the toast of the TV world.

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3 d. ago Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch: their hilarious ghost show is a warm

The Bafta-winning siblings bicker, fart and squeal the night away in some of the UK’s ‘haunted as hell’ hotspots. But forget the ghosts – this is really just a golden opportunity to weep with laughterA full moon looms, a synthesiser gulps and – dun dun duuuuuuuun – we’re off to HMP Gloucester in a Skoda Octavia with Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch (Sunday 26 October, 9.30pm, BBC Two). Why HMP Gloucester? Because the former Victorian prison is, according to our hosts – the titular, Bafta-winning siblings behind peerless mockumentary This Country – “supposedly haunted as hell.” A fitting setting, then, for the first episode of a series that finds lifelong paranormal enthusiasts Daisy May (39) and Charlie (36) stuff their slippers into the aforementioned family hatchback and set off to spend a night bickering and farting “in some of this country’s spookiest places.”An opening montage offers further elucidation. “Some people want to climb Everest,” explains Charlie while a the...

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5 d. ago Charlie and Daisy May Cooper reveal what might tempt them to return to This Country

This Country stars Daisy May and Charlie Cooper and her brother Charlie have addressed rumours of a return to the breakout BBC comedy.

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5 d. ago Reese Witherspoon left in stitches after family connection shared by Daisy May Cooper

Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon was left in stitches on Thursday's episode of The One Show as she appeared alongside Daisy May and Charlie Cooper

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6 d. ago Daisy May Cooper shocked to realise relative is 'notorious figure'

This Country's Daisy May Cooper and her brother Charlie have reunited for a new TV series that celebrates their childhood love of all things spooky and helped them uncovered some family secrets

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6 d. ago Daisy May Cooper's brother horrified as he discovers star's 'terrifying' sleeping habit

Daisy May Cooper and her brother Charlie spent a night together in a haunted location for the spooky BBC series Nightwatch - and Charlie was shocked by what he found

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