Why Did Cuckoo Leave Cuckoo?

Series 2 introduced two major cast changes: Tamla Kari (Rachel) was replaced by Esther Smith, and Cuckoo was written out because of Andy Samberg's other work commitments and replaced by his long lost son Dale (Taylor Lautner).

Why did Dylan leave Cuckoo?

Lautner's character Dale left Lichfield as the end of the show's fourth season after he and Rachel left to go travelling to Sierra Leone. ... “I'm so happy I get to pass my Cuckoo baton to someone as talented as Andie”, Taylor Lautner said in a statement.

What happened to the main character in Cuckoo?

In the second series of Cuckoo, which stars Greg Davies and Helen Baxendale, Samberg's titular hippy character leaves Lichfield to explore the foothills of the Himalayas. There he goes missing and is eventually presumed dead, leaving his young widow Rachel, played by Tamla Kari, to mourn.

James H. Sterling

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