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. Man Down

   2013 · Comedy · ended

   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.

2. Free Agents

   2011 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   This crooked workplace/romantic comedy proves you can try to put yourself back out there, but sometimes what you need is right in front of you. Even if it's a really bad idea.

3. Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

   2001 · Comedy · ended

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

   Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twenty-somethings in Runcorn.

4. Men Behaving Badly

   1992 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Gary needs a lodger to help pay the mortgage on his flat. Unfortunately, neither of his lodgers seems to be able (or willing) to pay any rent at all! First there's Dermot and then Tony. Both of these fall for Deborah, who owns the flat upstairs, but get nowhere. Gary also has thoughts in that direction - his problem being the fact that he has a regular girlfriend, Dorothy, who he lives with!

5. Bref.

   2011 · Comedy · returning

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   There it is, he is 40 years old. And the observation is bitter:By not making choices and never really taking charge of himself, he finds himself in the same place again and again, struggling for money, without a girlfriend and without a job. Yet another return to square one that will finally motivate him to react, to take charge of himself and to listen to someone other than the voice in his head.

6. 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.

7. Mixology

   2014 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   When Tom is dumped by his fiancee, friends Cal and Bruce force him back into the dating pool at Mix, a high-end bar in Manhattan's meat-packing district. Out on the town for the first time in a decade, his first encounter -- with a beautiful but brutal attorney -- ends in tears, and things get worse from there. Other members of Union's chic crowd include an engaged-for-now woman, an aggressive single mom, a bubbly waitress, a mysterious bartender, and a failed entrepreneur, who is having the worst night of his life.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.