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How Not To Live Your Life. Image of Don Danbury (Dan Clark). Image credit: Brown Eyed Boy.

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How Not To Live Your Life

Another series of this comedy due to follow.

Sitcom about an arrogant single twenty-something man who is struggling to navigate his way through life. He is not helped by his bad instincts

Genre:
Sitcom
Broadcast:
2007 - 2008  (BBC Three)
Episodes:
7 (pilot + 1 series)
Starring:
Dan Clark, David Armand, Sinead Moynihan, Finlay Robertson, Leila Hoffman, Frank Gallagher
Writers:
Dan Clark
Production:
Brown Eyed Boy

Don is a neurotic, single twenty-something failing to navigate his way through the very basics of life. His biggest enemy is his overactive mind, which plays out countless scenes of things he shouldn't do or say.

When Don moves into a house left to him by his recently deceased grandmother, he meets Eddie - his Nan's over-enthusiastic carer who doesn't want to leave. Don soon realises there are advantages to letting him stay.

To help pay off the huge back payments on the house, Don decides to get a lodger. He ends up choosing Abby, the girl he was in love with as a teenager and still fancies. The trouble is Abby isn't single - she has a snobby boyfriend called Karl.

Our Review: The 2007 pilot of this sitcom was average at best, lacking both focus and reason. We really enjoyed the full series though - the stronger premise (Don living in his deceased gran's house and plotting to dispense of Karl and win-over attractive Abby) and the new character of Eddie (David Armand in his best role yet) made all the difference.

However, it should be noted that Dan Clark struggled to make the self-centred Don likeable or believable during the first few episodes of this series, something which no doubt put some viewers off early on. However, those that stuck with it will have seen How Not To Live Your Life grow into the very likeable comedy it now is.

The door was left wide open for a second series, so its perhaps not suprising to hear that it will indeed be back for another series in 2009.