Cuckoo

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1. My Family

   2000 · Comedy, Family · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Meet the Harpers – your ordinary, crazy family. How can Ben and Susan cope when their kids are growing up – and growing wild? 

2. Not Going Out

   2006 · Comedy · returning96% match

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3. Some Girls

   2012 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on BBC Three.

   A comedy about group of quirky teenage girls who live on the same inner city estate.

4. How Not to Live Your Life

   2008 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on BBC Three.

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5. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended95% match

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

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6. Fleabag

   2016 · Drama, Comedy · ended95% match

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7. Review

   2014 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

   Review with Forrest MacNeil is a half-hour comedy starring [Andrew] Daly as "Forrest MacNeil." Unlike typical critics who review boring things like films, food or art, MacNeil reviews the most intense experiences of life itself... by living them. He reviews anything his TV audience throws at him: the adrenaline rush of stealing, the trauma of divorce, the harrowing effects of murder, the wonder and joy of anonymous sex and stops at nothing to show us what any and every experience in life feels like. And, for our convenience, he rates every adventure on a scale of zero to five stars. MacNeil's unwavering commitment to his work means his answers to life's most challenging questions often come at the expense of his wife, his children, his co-workers and humanity in general.

8. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

   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.

9. Fried

   2015 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on BBC Three.

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10. Peter Kay's Car Share

    2015 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

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