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Series Similar to Spaced

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

1. The IT Crowd

   2006 · Comedy · ended97% match

   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.

2. Black Books

   2000 · Comedy · ended97% match

   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.

3. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

   2005 · Comedy · returning97% match

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

   It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American comedy series about four friends in their late 20s with clear sociopathic tendencies who run an unsuccessful Irish bar, "Paddy's Pub," in South Philadelphia. The series deals with a variety of controversial topics, including abortion, gun control, physical disabilities, racism, sexism, religion, the Israeli/Palestinian situation, terrorism, transsexuality, slavery, incest, sexual harassment in education, the homeless, statutory rape, drug addiction, pedophilia, child abuse, mental illness, gay rights and dumpster babies.

4. Curb Your Enthusiasm

   2000 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Curb Your Enthusiasm stars Seinfeld co-creator Larry David as himself in an unsparing but tongue-in-cheek depiction of his life. Shot in a verite style and featuring celebrities playing themselves, the episodes are improvised by the actors from an outline created by David.

5. The Young Ones

   1982 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   Anarchic sitcom about degenerate North London students in the 80s.

6. Not Going Out

   2006 · Comedy · returning97% match

   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. Man Down

   2013 · Comedy · ended97% match

   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.

8. The Inbetweeners

   2008 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Sitcom about a bunch of middle-class adolescent lads. Welcome to a world of futile crushes, sibling brawls, getting drunk too quickly and casting constant aspersions about your friends' sexuality...

9. Father Ted

   1995 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Channel 4.

   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.

10. I'm Alan Partridge

    1997 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

    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.