The McCarthys

Series Similar to The McCarthys

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

1. Ground Floor

   2013 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   In this brand-new comedy series from the creator of Cougar Town & Scrubs, a young hot-shot falls for a beautiful woman who works on the ground floor.

2. Go On

   2012 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Following the sudden death of his wife, sports radio personality Ryan King is forced to attend grief counseling. Feeling it unnecessary, he does so reluctantly, and with minimal participation, until it becomes clear that this may actually help him in unexpected ways.

3. The King of Queens

   1998 · Comedy, Family · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, also on CBS.

   Set in the working-class suburb of Queens, New York, the show follows Doug Heffernan, an amiable deliveryman, and his wife, spitfire secretary Carrie Heffernan, as they explore the everyday challenges of love, life, family and marriage.

4. Cradle to Grave

   2015 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

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

   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.

5. Guys with Kids

   2012 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Guys with Kids is a comedy about three thirty-something dads trying to hold on to their youth, while holding onto their new babies' hands. Easy, right? Thankfully, Chris, Nick and Gary have each other to help navigate their survival as new dads, while still trying desperately to remain dudes. Balancing work or staying at home, painfully married or happily divorced, they know that taking care of the little ones while maintaining a social life is a daily challenge. Whether it's hosing the little squirt down in the kitchen sink or hitting the bar strapped with a baby björn, these guys are on a roller-coaster adventure - parenting like you (and they) have never seen before.Someone once said it is much easier to become a father than to be one. These three guys are about to find out just how true that is.

6. Crowded

   2016 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   No more sex, booze and paying the bills naked. After 20 years of parenting, empty nesters Mike and Martina are finally reclaiming their wild side. But when both of their two grown daughters unexpectedly move back in and Mike's parents scratch their plans to spend their golden years in Florida, their roost is full again. From Executive Producer Sean Hayes, this new (and very timely) family comedy proves that life is crazy with a full house, especially the second time around.

7. Just the Ten of Us

   1988 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   It all began on April 20, 1988, during an episode of Growing Pains entitled "How the West Was Won". When Mike Seaver's favorite teacher, Coach Lubbock, loses his job, Mike and Boner discover that the coach has nine mouths to support. So what happens? Coach Lubbock uproots his family and moves them to Eureka, California, where he becomes the coach at St Augustine's Academy, a Catholic school. The twist? It's an all-boys school, and he has five daughters to enroll. Sexcapades abound, but a lesson is always learned. The Lubbock clan included Graham's wife, Elizabeth, a Catholic woman with a lot of faith and values; J.R, a pre-teen delinquent who delighted in watching scary movies and terrorizing his sisters; Sherrie, the resident pre-teen brainiac; and toddlers Harvey and Melissa. The main focal point of the series were the beautiful Lubbock Babes: repressed and nun-like Marie, t...

8. Life in Pieces

   2015 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, also on CBS.

   Life in Pieces is a single-camera comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan, the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.

9. Summer Heights High

   2007 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

   Over one term, a documentary crew films the everyday activities of Summer Heights High and the revelations are hilarious, absurd and frequently shocking.

10. Playing House

    2014 · Comedy, Family · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

    In Playing House, when pregnant Maggie discovers her husband cheating, her BFF Emma gives up her career to help Maggie raise the baby. Now the lifelong friends must navigate their biggest and most hilarious adventure yet, in the best way they know how - together.