Shows Like Not Going Out
If you liked Not Going Out (2006), a comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Peep Show (2003)
★ 8/10Also comedyTwo dysfunctional flatmates reveal all their inner thoughts - whether dark, stupid or embarrassing. Or, occasionally, all three...
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Mongrels (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyNelson 'the urbane fox' and his anthropomorphic animal friends navigate the urban jungle from their home in London's East End in a puppet sitcom for adults.
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Absolutely Fabulous (1992)
★ 7.6/10Also comedySet in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness…
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Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyThe lives of five loveable, 20-somethings are followed in the northern town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, where the friends meet often at a local pub to chat about life and love.
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The Inbetweeners (2008)
★ 7.7/10Also comedySuburban teenage friends Will, Simon, Jay and Neil, students at Rudge Park Comprehensive, attempt to navigate the social scene, attract members of the gentler sex, and saunter amongst the cool crowd. However, despite…
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Brass Eye (1997)
★ 7.7/10Also comedyInvestigative reporter Chris Morris puts modern Britain under the spotlight, and smacks the issues of the day till they bleed. He tackles weighty issues including animals, drugs, sex and skewered celebrities and…
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Friday Night Dinner (2011)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyTwo siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
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Spaced (1999)
★ 7.9/10Also comedySpaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get…
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Drifters (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyComedy series about three young women living in Leeds who've graduated, had a year out, and are now struggling to find a job they're passionate about, a place to live that is half decent and a boyfriend they actually…
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Nighty Night (2004)
★ 7.7/10Also comedyJill Tyrell is a narcissistic sociopath who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic, asthmatic assistant Linda. When Jill learns that her husband has cancer, she uses this fact to manipulate new neighbour Cathy…
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Letterkenny (2016)
★ 7.9/10Also comedyLetterkenny follows Wayne, a good-ol’ country boy in Letterkenny, Ontario trying to protect his homegrown way of life on the farm, against a world that is constantly evolving around him. The residents of Letterkenny…
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The Young Ones (1982)
★ 7.9/10Also comedyThe misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvyan the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the…
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Chewing Gum (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyThe life of Tracey, a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old living in an estate in Tower Hamlets, and the mishaps of her neighbourhood, friends and family. Oh, and obvs her boyfriend!
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The Thick of It (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also comedySet in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
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Harlem (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyFour stylish and ambitious best girlfriends in Harlem, New York City: a rising star professor struggling to make space for her love life; a savvy tech entrepreneur always dating someone new; a no-filter singer; and a…
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Ben and Kate (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyBen and Kate are a pair of odd-couple siblings - one, a responsible single mom; the other, an exuberant dreamer - who reunite to help raise Kate's daughter.
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The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyComic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley…
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Catastrophe (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also comedyRob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.
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Jackass (2000)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyJoin sadomasochistic superheroes Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and the rest of the Jackass crew as they terrorize your TV screens and everyone that gets in their way (especially themselves) with their own sick and…
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
★ 8.3/10Also comedyFour egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead…