Cuckoo

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

1. My Family

   2000 · Comedy, Family · ended

   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 · 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.

3. Some Girls

   2012 · Comedy · ended

   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 · ended

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

   Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts.

5. Pulling

   2006 · Comedy · ended

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

   In the first episode, we meet Donna, a young woman about to settle down and marry her dependable - if rather boring - fiancé Karl. Then, on her hen night, the true horror of settling down and settling for second best hits Donna. Although she doesn't want to hurt Karl, she tells him that the wedding is off and moves into a shared house in Penge, South London, with her best friends, sex-mad Karen and lovable dreamer Louise.

6. Fried

   2015 · Comedy · ended

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

   Comedy series about the daily lives of the disgruntled employees at a London fried chicken shop.

7. Uncle

   2014 · Comedy · ended

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

   Uncle stars stand-up comedian and singer/songwriter Nick Helm as Andy, a dissolute out-of work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew Errol after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister Sam – all on the day Andy was planning to kill himself.

8. Ideal

   2005 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), also on BBC Three.

   Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.

9. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   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.

10. Mongrels

    2010 · Comedy, Adult · ended

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

    Nelson 'the urbane fox' and his anthropomorphic animal friends navigate the urban jungle from their home in the East End in a puppet sitcom for adults.