How Not to Live Your Life

Series Similar to How Not to Live Your Life

If you enjoyed How Not to Live Your Life, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The IT Crowd

   2006 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.7).

   The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.

2. Friends

   1994 · Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Six young (20-something) people from New York City (Manhattan), on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.This average group of buddies goes through massive mayhem, family trouble, past and future romances, fights, laughs, tears and surprises as they learn what it really means to be a friend.

3. The Office

   2005 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Steve Carell stars in The Office, a fresh and funny mockumentary-style glimpse into the daily interactions of the eccentric workers at the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company. Based on the smash-hit British series of the same name and adapted for American Television by Greg Daniels, this fast-paced comedy parodies contemporary American water-cooler culture. Earnest but clueless regional manager Michael Scott believes himself to be an exceptional boss and mentor, but actually receives more eye-rolls than respect from his oddball staff.

4. Better Off Ted

   2009 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Better Off Ted is a satirical office comedy about successful good guy, Ted Crisp, who runs research and development at Veridian Dynamics, a company with a morally questionable approach to its employees. Whether it's standing by a memo with a typo that encourages employees to now (as opposed to not) use offensive language with each other, to championing interoffice dating based on DNA matching to save money on health care, Veridian is a company that puts its bottom line first and employees last. Ted's a single dad to a seven year old girl, and he loves his job, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely dubious practices.

5. Miranda

   2009 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Sitcom starring Miranda Hart. It doesn't matter what Miranda attempts in life, whether it's dating or simply dealing with her overbearing mother, she always seems to fall flat, quite literally.

6. The Young Ones

   1982 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   Anarchic sitcom about degenerate North London students in the 80s.

7. Extras

   2005 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Sitcom set in the world of film and TV extras, from the Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant team that dreamt up The Office.

8. Man Down

   2013 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

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

9. Coupling

   2000 · Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC Three.

   Britcom about a group of six friends - three men and three women - and the ups and downs they encounter playing the 21st century dating game.

10. Uncle

    2014 · Comedy · ended97% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, 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.