Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Series Similar to Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

If you enjoyed Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Rules of Engagement

   2007 · Comedy, Romance · ended

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

   A comedy that follows two couples and a single guy as they navigate the jungles of dating, engagement and marriage.

2. Men Behaving Badly

   1992 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Gary needs a lodger to help pay the mortgage on his flat. Unfortunately, neither of his lodgers seems to be able (or willing) to pay any rent at all! First there's Dermot and then Tony. Both of these fall for Deborah, who owns the flat upstairs, but get nowhere. Gary also has thoughts in that direction - his problem being the fact that he has a regular girlfriend, Dorothy, who he lives with!

3. Not Going Out

   2006 · Comedy · returning

   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.

4. Ideal

   2005 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), also on BBC Three.

   Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.

5. Pulling

   2006 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on BBC Three.

   In the first episode, we meet Donna, a young woman about to settle down and marry her dependable - if rather boring - fiancé Karl. Then, on her hen night, the true horror of settling down and settling for second best hits Donna. Although she doesn't want to hurt Karl, she tells him that the wedding is off and moves into a shared house in Penge, South London, with her best friends, sex-mad Karen and lovable dreamer Louise.

6. How Not to Live Your Life

   2008 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on BBC Three.

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

7. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended

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

   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.

8. Coupling

   2000 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC Three.

   Britcom about a group of six friends - three men and three women - and the ups and downs they encounter playing the 21st century dating game.

9. Some Girls

   2012 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on BBC Three.

   A comedy about group of quirky teenage girls who live on the same inner city estate.

10. Black Books

    2000 · Comedy · ended

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

    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.