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How Not To Live Your Life

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Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts

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How Not To Live Your Life: Series 1

Dan Clark

David Armand

Sinead Moynihan

Finlay Robertson

How Not To Live Your Life: Series 1: Episode 3: Fake Wake

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Episode 3: Fake Wake

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BBC Three - How Not To Live Your Life, Series 1, Fake Wake

Don finds out he's legally obliged to put on a wake for his deceased nan.

Sitcom about a 20-something loser. Don is legally obliged to put on a wake for his deceased nan, with an open casket. Unfortunately, he had her cremated a few days before.

Twenty-something Don is a man with bad luck and even worse instincts, whose 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. 

Don finds out he's legally obliged to put on a wake for his deceased nan, with an open casket for her body. The only problem is that he cremated her a few days before, so he and Eddie audition old people at a centre for the elderly for the role of Don's nan.

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Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts.

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