Benidorm

Series Similar to Benidorm

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

1. Fresh Meat

   2011 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   A comedy drama series about the hilarious and painful truths of being a student. The latest creation from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, Fresh Meat follows a group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far - university.

2. You Rang, M'Lord?

   1988 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4).

   You Rang M'Lord? was a British sitcom that aired on BBC One from 1990-1993. The series was set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London.

3. Cuckoo

   2012 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas.

4. Not Going Out

   2006 · Comedy · returning

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Can hapless Lee win Lucy round to his dubious charms? And if he does, mishaps and pratfalls mean it's unlikely to be domestic bliss... Starring Lee Mack.

5. Brief Encounters

   2016 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on ITV1.

   Take four women all struggling to find happiness and fulfilment, add a touch of glamour, gutsy humour and a desire to improve their lot in life and Brief Encounters is born.Set in the early ‘80s, the six-part series introduces Steph, Pauline, Nita and Dawn as unlikely entrepreneurs who begin to sell exotic lingerie - to the dismay (and often delight) of their loved ones.The series is inspired by chapters telling the story of the early days of the Ann Summers party plan business found in Good Vibrations, Jacqueline Gold's memoir.

6. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

   2006 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   The executive producer of a late night sketch comedy show sparks a media frenzy when he has an on-air meltdown during a live broadcast. The newly minted network president has to scramble to make things right by hiring back two former prized employees to become the new executive producers of her network's flagship program.

7. Men in Trees

   2006 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   To help Marin get rid of issues that weigh her down, Cash takes her to visit a guru. On the way back down the mountain trail, an arctic cyclone erupts. Jack goes out to look for them and a pregnant Lynn can't do anything to stop him. Everyone hunkers down at the Chieftain to wait out the storm, and they learn some surprising things about each other. Mai and Buzz argue over his first choice of a wife, the engaged Patrick and Annie see her competitive spirit at work, Celia and Dick take their relationship to a new intimacy level, and Sara tells Ben about her mysterious court summons much to the chagrin of wife Theresa.

8. Kingdom

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on ITV1.

   In his first drama for ITV since Jeeves and Wooster in the 90s, Stephen Fry plays a delightful village solicitor in Norfolk, in a picturesque setting and living a wonderful listed house while driving an Alvis. Surrounded by eccentrics including a nymphomaniac sister just out of rehab played by Hermione Norris (Spooks), a dotty aunt in a home (Phyllida Law) and a bizarre collection of local clients. To top it all, his brother is missing, presumed dead, when his clothes turn up on the beach.

9. The Riches

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Blackmail. Murder. And back to life in the RV. The Malloys, after successfully passing themselves off as "The Riches," a yuppie family living in suburban America, face big trouble in Season Two. Wayne Malloy tries to clean up the mess in Eden Falls while his con artist family hits the road.

10. Bunheads

    2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

    A former ballerina turned Vegas showgirl decides to take a gamble on a new marriage and a fresh start in Paradise, CA.