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The Wilsons (2000)

  • Comedy
  • Family
  • 24 min episodes
  • 1 seasons
  • ★ 6.9/10 from 7 ratings

Comedy drama about a deeply dysfunctional family from South London. Ray, a friendly but hopeless fifty-something, is a widower with three daughters, two sons and a drink problem.

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    Life... and Stuff

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    1997 · Comedy

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    Rick Boswell is an unhappy man who lives in a suburban home with his wife of ten years, Ronnie, their two young sons and his lazy brother, and works at a small ad agency.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared theme: sitcom
    • a closely matched era
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    Raising Dad

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    2001 · 30 min · Comedy

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    A sitcom about a widowed father struggling to separate his professional and personal lives and keeping his sanity while raising two daughters.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared theme: sitcom
    • a closely matched era
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    The Residents

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    2001 · Comedy · Drama

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    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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    • strong recommendation signals
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    Being April

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    2002 · 60 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Three 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.

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    Vicious

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    2013 · 22 min · Comedy

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    Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is sure to cause trouble in their mundane lives.

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    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared theme: sitcom
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    Sugartown

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    2011 · 60 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Comedy drama revolving around a small seaside hamlet in the north of England, as a former resident returns with big plans for the community's re-development.

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