Life's Too Short

Series Similar to Life's Too Short

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

1. Toast of London

   2012 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Comedy series following Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

2. I'm Alan Partridge

   1997 · Comedy · ended96% match

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

   This classic BBC comedy comes courtesy of Steve Coogan. Alan is a fictional self-obsessed DJ who has had several TV jobs in the past (including chat show 'Knowing Me Knowing You') and has failed to bounce back from his long dead career. Each episode normally sees Alan resorting to embarrassing anecdotes, insulting someone without noticing and failing to revive his career.

3. Father Ted

   1995 · Comedy · ended96% match

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

   One small island off the west coast of Ireland. Three priests. One housekeeper. A bunch of nuns - and the most consistently awful weather on the planet.

4. Extras

   2005 · Comedy · ended96% 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.

5. Men Behaving Badly

   1992 · Comedy · ended96% match

   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!

6. jerks.

   2017 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

   Abgründe des Privatlebens, das Scheitern in Serie - Christian Ulmen und Fahri Yardim kämpfen sich in jerks. von einer erschütternden Peinlichkeit in die nächste. jerks. erzählt das ganz normale Leben der beiden Filmstars. Aus kleinen Fehlern werden große Krisen, keine Minderheit, die nicht aus Versehen beleidigt wird. Direkt, schonungslos, manchmal unerträglich: Mit improvisierten Dialogen erzeugt jerks. den Eindruck einer Dokumentation, der der Zuschauer als peinlich berührter Zeuge beiwohnt.

7. Cradle to Grave

   2015 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

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

   In Cradle to Grave, 15-year-old Danny Baker is the guide through the ups and downs of life with the family. Fred ‘Spud' Baker is a proud south London docker with a penchant for cheeky scheming. Wife Bet loves him deeply but longs for the family to go 'straight' and play by the rules. With eldest daughter Sharon's looming wedding, the docks facing closure, and Danny's struggles to get closer to the opposite sex, times are tough.

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. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended95% match

   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. Fawlty Towers

    1975 · Comedy · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), hidden gem, also on BBC Two.

    Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay. The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.