Quacks

Series Similar to Quacks

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

1. How Not to Live Your Life

   2008 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

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

2. Whites

   2010 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Roland is a fantastic chef who was on the brink of success 15 years ago, but has since lost the sparkle and drive needed to win that long coveted Michelin star. When he puts his mind to it he can cook with the best of them, but laziness gets the better of him, much to the annoyance of the restaurant's manager and Roland's secret admirer, Caroline (Katherine Parkinson). Joining them in the kitchen is quirky waitress Kiki (Isy Suttie), the hotel's owner Celia (Maggie Steed) and ambitious new apprentice chef, Skoose (Stephen Wight), whose ambition it is to replace the constantly under-pressure and long-suffering Bib! Amidst fine-dining and beautiful countryside, Whites should be a tranquil slice of heaven – but with this disparate group of characters behind the scenes, things can regularly heat up in the kitchen...

3. Plebs

   2013 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Rome is traditionally imagined as the home of emperors and senators, generals and gladiators, a dignified theatre of pomp and ceremony. But what about the little guys, the wasters - new to the big city, stuck in office jobs, unable to get the girls? Plebs follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - a city that happens to be Ancient Rome.

4. Scrubs

   2026 · Drama, Comedy, Medical · returning94% match

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

   Old friends JD and Turk scrub in together for the first time in a long time, learning that medicine has changed; interns have changed; but their bromance has stood the test of time.

5. Party Down

   2009 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Party Down follows a group of Hollywood dreamers - struggling actors and writers - stuck working as caterers while waiting for their big show business break.

6. Those Who Can't

   2016 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Those Who Can't follows three trouble-making teachers; Loren Payton, Billy Shoemaker and Andy Fairbell. More inept than the kids they teach, they're out to beat the system as they struggle to survive each day on their own terms. Joining them is Abbey, the school librarian with an in-suppressible passion for life.New challenges arise in Season 2 as the teachers struggle to deal with a principal regime change, which has dramatically shaken things up inside Smoot High. They're forced to take their schemes to greater lengths in order to keep their jobs, their friends and their 'dignity.' It's going to be a long year if they can make their way through it.

7. Life's Too Short

   2011 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Observational comedy starring Warwick Davis and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

8. Getting On

   2013 · Comedy, Medical · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Medical profile.

   From creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, the series follows the daily lives of nurses and doctors as they struggle with the darkly comic realities of caring for the elderly in an overwhelmed healthcare system, skewering the petty bureaucracies of modern medical practice in America.

9. Scrubs

   2001 · Drama, Comedy, Medical · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Fresh out of medical school, new doctors John "J.D." Dorian, his best friend Christopher Turk, and Elliot Reid start their internship at Sacred Heart Hospital. There, they meet the harsh Chief of Medicine Dr. Bob Kelso, J.D.'s reluctant mentor Dr. Perry Cox, nurse Carla Espinosa, and the deceitful and prankish Janitor. Also at the hospital are the wide range of personalities of Sacred Heart's staff, including the religious nurse Laverne Roberts, incompetent lawyer Ted Buckland, and spiteful board member Jordan Sullivan who also happens to be Cox's ex-wife. Other interns make the cut, such as the high-fiving Todd Quinlan and nervous Doug Murphy. Over the next 9 years they face personal and professional highs and lows, realizing that they can't make it through life - much less a hectic job as a doctor - on their own.

10. Peter Kay's Car Share

    2015 · Comedy · ended94% match

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

    John and Kayleigh have been thrown together in a company car share scheme.