
May to December
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1989 · 30 min · Comedy
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Comedy about a Pinner solictor who falls for a woman half his age.
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- substantial genre overlap
- shared network: BBC One
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Series · 9 connectionsThree kids. Three dads. One mum. April is a 39-year-old single mother living in Leicester, who has had three children by three different fathers. Richard, her husband since she was 18, is a plumber who still adores her. They separated years ago but never got round to a divorce. Eddie is a barman, with whom she had a fling nine years ago until, a week after moving in with him, she discovered they were both looking for Mr Right. Sunil followed, sexy, young and rich.
Created byPete Lawson
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Same network
1989 · 30 min · Comedy
Comedy about a Pinner solictor who falls for a woman half his age.
Shared cast
Satirical drama about the residents of a suburban English street, including a racist bully, a single mum who works on a phone-sex line, a gay couple, a pair of spaced-out students, a cross-dressing teenage boy and a newly arrived family from hell.

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1994 · Drama
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2001 · 30 min · Comedy
A sitcom about a widowed father struggling to separate his professional and personal lives and keeping his sanity while raising two daughters.

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1995 · 60 min · Drama
Jamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours.

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2006 · 59 min · Drama
Raymond's breadwinning wife leaves him for a younger man. Life at home goes from bad to worse. Then, he gets a very risque idea to save the day.

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2013 · 43 min · Comedy · Drama
Meet Savi, a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life—both professional and personal—simultaneously bucking for partner at her law firm while she and her husband, Harry, try to start a family of their own. Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josselyn, couldn't be more different—living single, serial dating and partying, and regularly leaning on her big sister along the way. Their common best friend, April, a recent widow and mother of two, is rebuilding her life after tragedy and learning to move forward, with the support and guidance of her closest girlfriends. And friend Karen, a successful therapist with her own practice, reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a patient goes far too deep.

Genre overlap
1993 · 30 min · Comedy
A single father's angry and cynical father moves in with him. Hilarity ensues.
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