Underplayed Gems

My Wonderful Life (1996)

My Wonderful Life poster
Country
United Kingdom
Length
3 seasons, 24 episodes
Rated
PG
Rating
8.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More series like thisWatch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

A British comedy-drama series about the everyday lives and relationships of a group of people. It follows their romantic and personal ups and downs with humor and warmth.

lightheartedwarmbittersweetupbeatcharacter-drivengentlecharmingcomediceveryday

What happens

My Wonderful Life is a British comedy-drama series by Simon Nye that starred Emma Wray, Philip Glenister, Hamish Clark, Elizabeth Berrington, Tony Robinson, Clare Perkins, Gary Webster and Nicola Stephenson. A total of three series were produced by Granada Television, and were broadcast on ITV from 1 May 1997 to 18 July 1999. It initially began as a one-off television film titled True Love shown on 25 February 1996, following its transmission Granada commissioned a series of six episodes. Only the likes of Wray and Glenister were transposed from the pilot to the main series, and several new characters were introduced. The series was successful with viewers, regularly attracting audiences of over 8 million and it was ITV's most popular comedy series during 1998. Due to his commitments with other TV shows at the time, Nye collaborated with a number of writers on the series including Amanda Swift and Paul Dornan, who each wrote several episodes respectively. Despite its earlier success, the third series was erractically scheduled by ITV Network Centre and was poorly advertised, this led co-star Glenister to directly complain to an ITV press officer. Speaking in January 2000, he noted that he was extremely proud of the series and was very angry about the way the show was treated at the time. The theme song used over the opening and closing credits was "I Am, I Feel" by Alisha's Attic, which peaked at Number 14 in the charts and sold 153,000 copies across the UK in 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.