Shows Like What About Brian
If you liked What About Brian (2006), a drama and 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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Girlfriends (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedyA friend group of black women face life's tests and triumphs together. From dating to divorce, and friends to family to relationships, Joan, Maya, Lynn and Toni support each other despite their differing backgrounds.
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Tyler Perry's Sistas (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and dramaThere's nothing that bonds a group of single black women together more than sidestepping the land mines of living, working and dating in Atlanta. In a sea of swipe-lefts, social media drama and unrealistic…
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Will & Grace (1998)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyWill Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex…
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Friends with Benefits (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedyRevolving around a group of twentysomething singles as they navigate the difficult, sometimes rewarding, often confusing world of dating. Loyal and devoted to one another, these friends are never too busy to help a…
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Felicity (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaFelicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things…
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Cold Feet (1998)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and dramaFollow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which…
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What's Happening!! (1976)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyBuddies Raj, Rerun and Dwayne come of age in 1970s Los Angeles. The trio have a penchant for mischief and trying to find ways of getting rich quick. Almost always the trio's schemes wind up getting them into trouble…
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How I Met Your Father (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaIn the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they…
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Happy Together (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyA thirty-something couple, tired of their mundane life, starts to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when an emerging pop star, who is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, moves in.
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Mike & Molly (2010)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaA comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
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Big Boys (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and dramaTwo boys from very different ends of the 'spectrum of masculinity' become best friends at Brent University freshers' week; in their first year of uni, they explore, experiment and try to discover themselves, helping…
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The O.C. (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaRyan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give him a chance. But Ryan's arrival disturbs the status quo of the affluent, privileged community of Newport Beach…
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Friends (1994)
★ 8.4/10Also comedySix young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
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Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaAfter an unusual event, Zoey Clarke, a whip-smart computer coder forging her way in San Francisco, suddenly starts to hear the innermost wants, thoughts and desires of the people around her through popular songs.
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Broad City (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaBroad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
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Men at Work (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaMen at Work is an American comedy series that airs on TBS. The series was created by Breckin Meyer and stars Danny Masterson, Michael Cassidy, Adam Busch, James Lesure and Meredith Hagner. The series premiered on May…
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Lipstick Jungle (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedyLipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by…
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Friends with Better Lives (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyA comedy about six friends at different stages in their lives – married, divorced, newly engaged and single – who are outwardly happy, but secretly questioning if their friends have it better. Andi and Bobby are…
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The Couple Next Door (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaEvie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife…
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Married (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaMarried is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between…