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How Not to Live Your Life

How Not to Live Your Life

20087.63 Seasons19 EpisodesEnded

Overview

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.

NetworksBBC Three

Top Cast

Dan Clark

Dan Clark

Don Danbury

Laura Haddock

Laura Haddock

Samantha

David Armand

David Armand

Eddie Singh

L

Leila Hoffman

Mrs. Treacher

Silas Carson

Silas Carson

Brian

Daniel Lawrence Taylor

Daniel Lawrence Taylor

Jason

Themes & Keywords

roommatessingleromancesitcompessimistlothariooveractive imaginationimagination

About How Not to Live Your Life

How Not to Live Your Life is a comedy, drama series that first aired in 2008 exploring themes of roommates, single, romance, sitcom, pessimist, lothario. it stars Dan Clark, Laura Haddock, David Armand. 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.

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