# TV shows like Friends to watch next

Groups of friends, apartments, a regular bar or café and lots of laughs. Picked from the suggestions of Bits & Baits, Planeta Diário and FilmAffinity's similar shows.

- 10 votes · 14 items
- Jul 7, 2025 · maratonista.noturno
- https://even.best/en/l/4049/tv-shows-like-friends-to-watch-next

## Top 10

1. **The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nerdy scientists, their neighbour Penny and the apartment couch.
2. **How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ted tells his kids how he met their mother, with the gang from MacLaren's.
3. **Seinfeld (1989-1998)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer in New York: NBC's 'show about nothing'.
4. **Community (2009-2015)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — An unlikely study group at a community college.
5. **New Girl (2011-2018)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Jess moves into a loft with three guys in Los Angeles.
6. **Cougar Town (2009-2015)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — It starts with a divorcee in her forties and turns into a wine-fuelled group of friends.
7. **Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A police precinct that works like a group of friends.
8. **Happy Endings (2011-2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Six friends in Chicago after a wedding called off at the altar.
9. **Living Single (1993-1998)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Six friends in Brooklyn; often called the show that inspired Friends.
10. **Coupling (2000-2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The British answer: six friends talking dating in London.
11. **Scrubs (2001-2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — J.D., Turk and Elliot between shifts and jokes at a hospital.
12. **Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leslie Knope and her colleagues at Pawnee city hall.
13. **Will & Grace (1998-2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Best friends Will and Grace sharing a flat in Manhattan.
14. **2 Broke Girls (2011-2017)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Two New York waitresses trying to start a business.

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