Boiling Point

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

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   Set in the fast-paced and challenging environment of the British newspaper industry, Press will immerse viewers in the personal lives and the constant professional dilemmas facing its characters.The series follows their lives as they attempt to balance work and play, ambition and integrity, amid the never-ending pressure of the 24-hour global news cycle and an industry in turmoil.

2. Stateless

   2020 · Drama · ended96% match

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3. Flesh and Bone

   2015 · Drama · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

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   2019 · Drama · ended96% match

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6. Wakefield

   2021 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

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7. The Slap

   2015 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Meet Hector: a public servant, husband, father and valued friend on the cusp of his 40th. Meet Aisha: Hector's beautiful and intelligent wife who is planning his birthday party filled with friends and his very boisterous Greek family. Sounds like the makings of a great day, right? Wrong. As Hector tries to navigate family politics, awkward friendships and the young woman he is dangerously captivated by, the built-up tension explodes when Hector's hotheaded cousin slaps another couple's misbehaving child. Everyone is understandably stunned, and the party abruptly ends with the child's parents vowing legal action. But what the hosts and guests don't know is that this moment will ignite a chain of events that will uncover long-buried secrets within this group of friends and family ... and vigorously challenge the core values of everyone involved.

8. Mayflies

   2022 · Drama · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC iPlayer.

   Everyone has a Tully Dawson - the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit…Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphoria and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

9. Dirty Business

   2026 · Drama · ended94% match

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    2024 · Drama · ended94% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC iPlayer.

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