How Not To Live Your Life: Series 2, Episode 1 - Don's New Flatmate

TV sitcom
BBC Three
2007 - 2011
21 episodes (3 series)

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. Stars Dan Clark, David Armand, Sinead Moynihan, Finlay Robertson, Leila Hoffman and more.

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Series 2, Episode 1 - Don's New Flatmate

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

Having become close to winning the heart of his ideal woman, Abby, in the last series, Don suddenly finds himself bereft. Oblivious and newly single, Abby has opted for six months travelling to get over her ex-boyfriend - leaving Don with both a void in his life and a spare room to fill.

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Broadcast details

Date: Tuesday 15^th September 2009
Time: 10:30pm
Channel: BBC Three
Length: 30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Dan Clark	Don Danbury
David Armand	Eddie
Leila Hoffman	Mrs Treacher
Laura Haddock	Samantha

Guest cast
Eleanor Bird	Woman
Tom Meeten	Michael Jackson
Finn Den Hertog	Man in Pub
Christopher Hamill (as Limahl)	Self

Writing team
Dan Clark	Writer
Drew Pearce	Script Editor

Production team
Martin Dennis	Director
Gary Reich	Producer
Dan Clark	Producer
Alan Tyler	Executive Producer
Simon Lupton	Executive Producer
Andy Linton	Editor
Iain McDonald	Production Designer
Ben Parker	Composer

Video

Coping Without Abby

Don Danbury is missing Abby - can Eddie cheer him up?

Featuring: David Armand (Eddie) & Dan Clark (Don Danbury).

Press

A terrestrial airing for Dan Clarke's BBC Three comedy about neurotic singleton Don, whose bad instincts are holding him back. Unfortunately Clarke omitted to make the self-centred Don in any way appealing, so the sympathetic laughs come few and far between.

Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 13th July 2009

Dan Clark, who writes and stars in this, seems to have sprung from nowhere. The occasional bit-part role French And Saunders and The Mighty Boosh make up his entire CV. And yet, despite that and the fact it was on BBC3, his sitcom HNTLYL is extremely accomplished. He plays the ridiculous Dan, left a house by his Grandma, who invites the girl he fancied at school, Abby (the girl from Drop Dead Gorgeous) to be his lodger. It's a smart, quick-witted show full of cutaways, sight gags and rundowns of mistakes you shouldn't make. It also includes the sentence: "I don't believe in sheaths". Who says you need experience, eh?

TV Bite, 13th July 2009

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