Raised by Wolves

Series Similar to Raised by Wolves

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

1. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on Channel 4.

   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.

2. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Channel 4.

   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.

3. Man Down

   2013 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on Channel 4.

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

4. The IT Crowd

   2006 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.7), also on Channel 4.

   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.

5. Crashing

   2016 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Channel 4.

   Sitcom about the lives and loves of six twenty-to-thirty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.

6. Peter Kay's Car Share

   2015 · Comedy · ended

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

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

7. Review

   2014 · Comedy · ended

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

   Review with Forrest MacNeil is a half-hour comedy starring [Andrew] Daly as "Forrest MacNeil." Unlike typical critics who review boring things like films, food or art, MacNeil reviews the most intense experiences of life itself... by living them. He reviews anything his TV audience throws at him: the adrenaline rush of stealing, the trauma of divorce, the harrowing effects of murder, the wonder and joy of anonymous sex and stops at nothing to show us what any and every experience in life feels like. And, for our convenience, he rates every adventure on a scale of zero to five stars. MacNeil's unwavering commitment to his work means his answers to life's most challenging questions often come at the expense of his wife, his children, his co-workers and humanity in general.

8. 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.

9. Back

   2017 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on Channel 4.

   Back centres around Stephen who is set to finally take over the family pub after his dad dies. His mum Ellen and sister Cass are uninterested in the business so it's definitely Stephen's turn. But when his charming former foster-brother Andrew turns up at the funeral, Stephen's plans go awry....

10. Black Books

    2000 · Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), also on Channel 4.

    Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by an Irishman named Bernard Black. He is probably the planet's worst-suited person to run such an establishment: he makes no effort to sell, closes at strange hours on a whim, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, abhors his customers (sometimes physically abusing them) and is often comatose at his desk. Help comes in the lumpy shape of Manny Bianco, a hairy, bumbling individual who (almost by osmosis) becomes Bernard's assistant. Manny is not exactly great at the job either but he is a million times better than Bernard. Next door is Fran, an anxious, frustrated woman who runs a sort of new-age shop selling the most unlikely bits of arty junk. Fran is friends with Bernard and, through him, with Manny; together the trio become embroiled in escapades that are sometimes extreme or violent or fantastically ludicrous, and always bizarre.