In and around Flatch, Ohio there are fields and silos, pigs, tractors, a church, community center, shoe store, local cheese leaflet editors, historical society and the annual Flatch Scarecrow Festival.

The highlight is the selection of the best scarecrow, which of course is always accompanied by the suspicion of fraud.

There are 1526 residents, plus minus a few that aren't so easy to pinpoint.

Perhaps because nothing is ever seen of them as they are presumably on their sprawling farms and get up and go to bed with the chickens.

People in Flatch are proud of a listed wooden building, a latrine from 1810. City founder General Flatch once built it as a throne, much to the envy of the residents of the neighboring town.

The ideal place to live

Otherwise little happens in Flatch.

Consequently there is a lot of time.

time to do nothing.

Or to be up to mischief.

For most Americans, therefore, the ideal place to live, according to the "Welcome to Flatch" mockumentary (Fox).

The comedy- Series acknowledging that most Americans longed for a life in rural small towns.

In order to find out what this actually feels like, the Fox broadcaster sent a representatively selected documentary film team to Flatch to kill time with the residents and report on it.

That it can be funny when next to nothing happens is comedy truism.

A lack of action can force situational comedy and dialog jokes to the best of their ability.

In the case of “Welcome to Flatch”, the signs are also favourable.

The fictional backwoods documentary originally comes from Great Britain and has won several BAFTAs, the leading English television awards, as the very funny, occasionally profound BBC production "This Country".

It comes from the British comedian Daisy May Cooper, who, together with her brother, Charlie Cooper, also plays the leading roles of juvenile wastrels who constantly agitate the town with big plans and rare naivety and repeatedly fail because of themselves and the stubbornness of others .

Cooper's humor is concentrated in her parody of the photo,

Daisy May Cooper wears, albeit in a different size, as a matter of course a sequined sausage skin dress, holds a mean ketchup bottle in her hand and balances a bowl of probably limp fries on the wrong butt pad, but looks just as ecstatic as Kardashian.

The swapping of high-end pretense and underdog imitation works splendidly in “This Country” as well.

The Coopers are the producers of “Welcome to Flatch”, the American adaptation was written by Jenny Bicks and directed by Paul Fleig.

In Flatch, instead of the Coopers, it's Chelsea Holmes as Kelly Mallet and Sam Straley as her cousin Lloyd "Shrub" Mallet who drive Father Joe Binghoffer (Seann William Scott) to despair.

Father Joe has set himself the task of bringing community life into shape and giving the young people a perspective.

He gains credibility with target audiences when videos surface showing him as a former member of the Christian boy band "A-Men" performing RPG "Backstreet Boys" dance routines.

Kelly, who is always busy with new business ideas, is from now on slowed down by the rest of the staff, including the tough Mandy Matthews (Krystal Smith) or "Mrs.

Perfect” Nadine (Taylor Ortega).

It also doesn't help that Kelly's gang consists of seven children, who seem anything but dangerous.

While the original This Country, which is set in the Cotswolds by the way, is leagues ahead, Welcome to Flatch is an anti-"country lust" comedy to look at.

Above all, this is due to the leading actress Chelsea Holmes, who, as country bumpkin Kelly, also hits many tragicomic tones, ranging from misguided to touching.

Welcome to Flatch

runs on Tuesdays from 9 p.m., Thursdays from 8.15 p.m. and Fridays from 10.35 p.m. in double episodes on Sky Comedy.