{"id":54973,"date":"2018-08-21T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/21\/how-did-the-creators-of-this-country-become-bigger-than-benedict-cumberbatch\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:36:22","slug":"how-did-the-creators-of-this-country-become-bigger-than-benedict-cumberbatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54973","title":{"rendered":"How did the creators of This Country become bigger than Benedict Cumberbatch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daisy May and Charlie Cooper have stealthily become TV\u2019s most successful siblings after word of mouth propelled their masterly sitcom to two BaftasFor the most part, the annual Radio Times TV 100 list is exactly what you would expect \u2013 Olivia Colman, Chris Chibnall, David Attenborough, Idris Elba \u2013 but you don\u2019t have to look too hard to see a curveball.This year, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, the siblings who created the BBC sitcom This Country, are in third place. They are above Gary Lineker, Laura Kuenssberg and Benedict Cumberbatch. Considering that This Country premiered online with zero fanfare, it is a&nbsp;surprising choice. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/shortcuts\/2018\/aug\/21\/how-did-the-creators-of-this-country-become-bigger-than-benedict-cumberbatch\" target=\"_blank\">How did the creators of This Country become bigger than Benedict Cumberbatch?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daisy May and Charlie Cooper have stealthily become TV\u2019s most successful siblings after word of mouth propelled their masterly sitcom to two BaftasFor the most part, the annual Radio Times TV 100 list is exactly what you would expect \u2013 Olivia Colman, Chris Chibnall, David Attenborough, Idris Elba \u2013 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}