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Series Similar to Back

If you enjoyed Back, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. State of the Union

   2019 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   State of the Union explores the world of Louise and Tom as they attempt to repair their crumbling marriage through weekly marital therapy sessions. Before each appointment, the couple meets at a pub where they delve into how they came together and, how eventually, their marriage fell into disrepair. Throughout each episode, audiences are provided with an honest and humorous take on contemporary relationships.

2. Waiting for God

   1990 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Waiting for God is a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1994 starring Graham Crowden as Tom and Stephanie Cole as Diana, two spirited residents of a retirement home who spend their time running rings around the home's oppressive management and their own families.Set at the fictional Bayview Retirement Home near Bournemouth, the show was based around Diana Trent and her relationship with Tom Ballard, a former accountant with semi-feigned dementia. He has been exiled there for the convenience of his family.

3. The Cleaner

   2021 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · returning

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Paul ‘Wicky' Wickstead, is a state-certified cleaning technician with a very special field of work: as a crime scene cleaner he is responsible for the removal of any signs of death.Wicky works for Shropshire-based cleaning contractors Lausen and is usually found, together with his baby-blue pickup truck, at crime scenes after the police have concluded their detective work.Armed with chemicals, scrubbing brushes and cleaning rags, Wicky removes the gruesome mess at the scene of the crime. When carrying out his duties, he stumbles across the strangest of people: from the victim's relatives, employers, neighbours and acquaintances, to occasionally even the murderers themselves. And because he's a sociable type, he sometimes gossips more than he cleans

4. One Foot in the Grave

   1990 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Curmudgeonly Victor Meldrew, forced to take early retirement from his job as a security guard, rails at the trials and tribulations of modern life as he tries to keep himself busy. His long-suffering wife, Margaret, is frequently exasperated by his misfortunes. Neighbours Patrick and Pippa Trench and family friend Jean Warboys are common witnesses to Victor's antics.

5. Staged

   2020 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of Six Characters in Search of an Author in the West End.The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans - also playing himself) is determined not to let the opportunity pass him by. He knows how big a chance this is for him and turns his attention to cajoling his stars into rehearsing over the internet.All they need to do is read the first scene, but throughout the series they come up against a multitude of oppositional forces: distraction, boredom, home-schooling and their own egos.

6. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on Channel 4.

   An award-winning bittersweet comedy-drama about a group of outsiders living on society's margins, Derek centers around Derek Noakes (a tender, innocent man whose love for his job at a retirement home shines through. Derek cares deeply for the home's residents, because they are kind and funny and tell him stories of what life used to be like. Working alongside Derek is Dougie, his landlord, who is one of life's unlucky individuals; Kev, a lovable train wreck; and Hannah, a care worker in the home and Derek's best friend. She is smart, witty and hardworking, but unlucky in love, and, like Derek, always puts other people first.

7. Dag

   2010 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Dag is a Norwegian drama/comedy show starring Atle Antonsen as Dag, he is a marital therapist, and he does not have much faith in people or marriage, he lives isolated and alone, and feels that everyone should embrace living like this.While Dag does his best to maintain his anonymous and withdrawn lifestyle intact, he has to suffer his hopeless friend Benedict, his sensitive sister Marianne, his psycho secretary Malin and numerous of crazy patients.Yet everything changes when Marianne's friend Eva suddenly shows up and finally puts some feelings into work with the otherwise cold Dag

8. Schitt's Creek

   2015 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Schitt's Creek centers on a formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, who suddenly find themselves broke. They are forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.

9. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Channel 4.

   Nathan Barley is 26. He is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible of cool. Dan Ashcroft writes searing columns for Sugar Ape. He's considered astonishingly cool, but only by those he despises. He is surrounded by idiots and practically worshipped by Nathan (whom he considers to be their king). He is 34. Why has he failed to move on? Claire Ashcroft, 27, is Dan's sister. Like Dan she despises "cool". Unlike Nathan she despises novelty, trash, irony and gadgets. She is furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies.

10. Man Down

    2013 · Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on Channel 4.

    Comedy series written by and starring Greg Davies as Dan, a childish idiot whose world is on the brink of collapse.