Films and programs like Getting On

Early Doors

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 8.6

A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord...

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Red Dwarf

Series Age rating: 9 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

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Big School

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive whiteboards set in an urban secondary school. Chemistry teacher Mr. Church is hopelessly in love with the school's new French...

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Toast of London

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

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Stath Lets Flats

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Follows incompetent Greek-Cypriot lettings agent Stath, who works for the family business, Michael and Eagle. While Stath wrestles not to be outshone by their top agent, ruthlessly ambitious Carole, t...

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Nine Films About Technology

Series Age rating: 18 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Nine loosely connected and darkly comic stories about human relationships in the modern age of smart phones, social media and connectivity.

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Year of the Rabbit

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, Detective Inspector Rabbit is a hardened booze-hound who's seen it all. Rabbit's been chasing bad guys for as long as he can remember, but these days his hea...

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Bad Education

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford, Hertfordshire.

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Spaced

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Spaced: 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 j...

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