Worzel Gummidge

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1. Monarch of the Glen

   2000 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Heart-warming drama based on Compton Mackenzie's novels, featuring a rural community of eccentric characters. Archie MacDonald becomes the laird of a huge, decaying family estate in the Cairngorms.

2. Red Band Society

   2014 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   What if a hospital was your high school, boarding school and summer camp rolled into one? What if it was the place where you fell in love for the first time and made friendships that lasted a lifetime? And what if it was all weirdly hilarious and the most fun you ever had in your entire life? This is the world of Red Band Society.

3. It's a Sin

   2021 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumour, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight.It's the story of their friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come. Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade.

4. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

   2006 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

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

   The executive producer of a late night sketch comedy show sparks a media frenzy when he has an on-air meltdown during a live broadcast. The newly minted network president has to scramble to make things right by hiring back two former prized employees to become the new executive producers of her network's flagship program.

5. Bunheads

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   A former ballerina turned Vegas showgirl decides to take a gamble on a new marriage and a fresh start in Paradise, CA.

6. Мир! Дружба! Жвачка!

   2020 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

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

   1993. 14-year—old Sanka Ryabinin lives an ordinary teenage life - looking for adventures, trying to protect himself from district hooligans, does not want to go to the music room, does not know how to communicate with girls and from whom to take an example from adults. On the one hand, there is an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mom and an associate professor dad, on the other — the dangerous world of the Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And then there's the girl Zhenya, whose acquaintance triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the lives of Sanka, his family and friends Vovka and Ilyusha. Escaping from the hooligans, Sanka steals the car of a local crime boss, and in an instant everything changes. And then there are fights with adult Caucasians, peers, between parents in the kitchen, with their boys, and so on. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the very heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear – life will not be the same as before. Neither for Sanka himself, nor for the whole of Russia.

7. Emma

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...

8. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a charming story chronicling the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts up the country's first female-owned detective agency. Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

9. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

   2017 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

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

   It's 1958 Manhattan and Miriam "Midge" Maisel has everything she's ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson's couch.

10. Horace and Pete

    2016 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

    Horace and Pete run a small family bar in the heart of Brooklyn, with the help of their Uncle Pete. The bar has always been run by, and passed down to, a Horace and a Pete, cousins or brothers. The bar serves no mixed drinks, only a few types of liquor and one brand of beer, Budweiser, in keeping with their commitment to having an old fashioned, traditional, family-owned bar. Horace, a divorced father of a grown daughter, lives in the apartment above the bar with Pete, who is single. Horace and Pete are battling with extended family members regarding the fate of the bar. Some want to sell, others do not. Various regulars come in and out, and take up their places in booths, or on barstools. The story unfolds over ten episodes, and takes place in the bar, and in the apartment above the bar. Ultimately it is a story of a family and the struggles and laughs that go into running a bar for generations.