Toast of London

Series Similar to Toast of London

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Father Ted

   1995 · Comedy · ended

   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.

6. Chewing Gum

   2015 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Chewing Gum is a comedy series following religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 24-year-old Tracey Gordon who is fast finding out that the more she learns about the world, the less she understands.

7. Friday Night Dinner

   2011 · Comedy, Family · ended

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

   For the Goodman family, Friday Night Dinner is just like Sunday lunch: just take two days away, change the meal to dinner, and you've pretty much got it. Adam and his brother, Jonny, view Friday night dinner as a necessary annoyance - necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the evening with mum and dad.

8. Miranda

   2009 · Comedy · ended

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

   Sitcom starring Miranda Hart. It doesn't matter what Miranda attempts in life, whether it's dating or simply dealing with her overbearing mother, she always seems to fall flat, quite literally.

9. Detectorists

   2014 · Comedy · ended

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

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

10. Derry Girls

    2018 · Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Channel 4.

    16-year-old Erin Quinn lives with her uncompromising mother, her long-suffering father and the fearsome ‘Granda Joe', a man whose love for his daughters and granddaughters is surpassed only by his contempt for his son-in-law.It's the early 90s, and Erin is used to seeing her country on the nightly news and speaking in acronyms (The IRA, The UDA, The RUC). This is a time of armed police in armoured Land Rovers and British Army check points. But it's also the time of Murder She Wrote, The Cranberries, MJ and Lisa Marie, Doc Martens, bomber jackets, The X Files, Nirvana and Wayne's World. And while The Troubles may hang over her home town, Erin has troubles of her own