Series like Grandma's House

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   Like Family

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   2003 · 21 min · Comedy

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   Tanya, Ed, and their kids, 16-year-old Danika and 12-year-old Bobby, are a middle-class African-American family who open their door for an old friend who needs parenting help. Juggling the demands of single parenthood, Maddie believes her 16-year-old son, Keith, could benefit from living in a traditional family structure, and especially from a strong male influence. They discover that their differences are definitely more than skin deep.

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   Happily Divorced

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   2011 · 30 min · Comedy

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   After eighteen years of marital life, Fran is shocked when her husband reveals that he is gay. Living under the same roof, the two of them date various men.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Crims

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   2015 · 30 min · Comedy

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   Straight-laced Luke inadvertently gets into trouble when his girlfriend's brother, Jason, decides to rob a bank. The duo are sentenced to the Sunnybrook Young Offender Institution. Once there, Luke finds himself in difficult situations and becomes reliant on Jason's street knowledge; unfortunately, Jason's advice proves useless. Under the watchful eye of prison officer Dawn and her colleague, Greg, the lads adjust to life on the inside.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Zipwaz Humphries

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   2015 · Comedy

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   Surreal sitcom about a kindly idiot who lives with an insecure fireman.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   Rev.

   Genre overlap

   2010 · 30 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Sitcom about a former rural parish vicar trying to cope with the varied demands of running an inner-city church.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Skins

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   2011 · 42 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A wild ride through the lives of a group of high school friends stumbling through the mine field of adolescence... and stepping on most of the mines as they go.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Baddiel's Syndrome

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   2001 · 25 min · Comedy

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   The trials and tribulations of David, a world-weary thirty-something trying to make sense of his complicated life. David shares his flat with his lodger, Ethan, an American personal trainer. His friend and neighbour Lord Peter Harrington is an aristocrat who's upset about losing his seat in the House of Lords. His son, who David thinks might be gay, lives with his ex-wife Sian. David now fancies his Slovenian cleaning lady, Eva, who wants to marry him so that she can stay in Britain.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   What a Load of Buzzcocks

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   2013 · 30 min · Comedy · Talk

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   Highlights series presenting the best of 16 years of Never Mind the Buzzcocks pop history.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a principal cast member
   • a closely matched era

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