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. I'm Alan Partridge

   1997 · Comedy · ended

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

2. Toast of London

   2012 · Comedy · ended

   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.

3. Father Ted

   1995 · Comedy · ended

   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 · ended

   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 · 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!

6. jerks.

   2017 · Comedy · ended

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

   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 · ended

   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. Rev.

   2010 · Comedy · ended

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

   Sitcom about a former rural parish vicar trying to cope with the varied demands of running an inner-city church. Starring Tom Hollander.

9. Detectorists

   2014 · Comedy · ended

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

   Comedy series about two friends who go in search of their hearts' desire with a couple of metal detectors.

10. Vicious

    2013 · Comedy · ended

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

    Vicious tells the story of partners Freddie and Stuart, who have lived together in a small central London flat for nearly 50 years. Constantly picking each other apart and holding on to petty slights for decades, Freddie and Stuart are always at each other s throats, cracking snide remarks aimed at the other's age, appearance and flaws. However, underneath their vicious, co-dependent fighting, they have a deep love for one another. Freddie and Stuart are often joined by feisty best friend Violet and Ash, their young, upstairs neighbor.