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How Not to Live Your Life

7.7
3 seasons
19 episodes
Ended
Comedy
Drama

Plot Summary

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts. Don's overactive imagination is always in full flow in the form of quick-fire fantasy sequences as he imagines what he would really like to say.

First Aired:August 12, 2008
Last Aired:December 13, 2010
Episode Runtime:30m
Networks:
BBC Three

Cast & Characters

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Seasons (4)

Series 1
7.8

Series 1

6 episodes

Aired: 2008

Series 2
7.7

Series 2

6 episodes

Aired: 2009

Series 3
7.9

Series 3

7 episodes

Aired: 2010

Don's luck was about to change as it looked like he was finally going to get it on with his flatmate, Sam. But it appears that things didn't quite go according to plan, and each day is a trial for Don as he must face up to the fact that he blew his chance with Sam. To make matters worse, she has a new boyfriend who is everything Don isn't – mature, reliable, clever and not at all self-obsessed. Once more Don has to deal with a fraught love life that involves dates with an aristocrat, a tramp and a really angry woman. On top of that he is sucked into taking part in Top Gun – The Musical, tries therapy and even sells his soul to become a corporate highflyer. But despite all this, he is still no wiser as to how to live his life...

Production

Brown Eyed Boy

BBC