TV Shows Like New Girl
If you like New Girl, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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New Girl works because it commits to its premise without embarrassment. Jess Day is genuinely weird, and the show never asks you to find that charming in a winking, ironic way. It just is charming, and the writers trust the ensemble enough to let each character be equally ridiculous in their own register. The loft is the show's anchor, and the roommate dynamic gives the writers a built-in reason to push very different people into the same frame every week. That tension, between people who would not naturally choose each other but end up deeply loving each other, is what keeps fans coming back.
The best shows like New Girl
1. The Big Bang Theory
Like New Girl, The Big Bang Theory puts a socially confident outsider, Penny, into close quarters with people who operate on a completely different wavelength, and mines that friction for most of its comedy. The group dynamic is central, and the show has real affection for its characters' oddities rather than just laughing at them. If you liked watching Jess slowly become one of the guys, you'll enjoy watching the reverse happen here.
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2. Will & Grace
Will & Grace shares New Girl's interest in what happens when a woman's romantic life falls apart and a platonic living situation becomes the real relationship at the center of the story. The banter is quick and the friendship between Will and Grace has real warmth underneath all the sparring. Fans of Jess and Nick's push-and-pull will find a lot to enjoy in the way these two navigate each other.
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3. Happy Endings
Happy Endings is built around a group of friends whose entire social structure gets stress-tested by a romantic blowup, which puts it in very similar emotional territory to New Girl's ensemble dynamics. The humor is fast and a little anarchic, with each character having a distinct comedic identity that the writers use well. If New Girl's group felt like a found family to you, Happy Endings delivers exactly the same thing.
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4. A Different World
A Different World trades the apartment for a college campus but keeps the ensemble warmth and the sense that the characters are figuring out who they are in real time, much like Jess does throughout New Girl. The show isn't afraid to take its characters seriously even while being funny, and the romantic storylines are genuinely engaging. Fans who responded to New Girl's optimistic, big-hearted tone will feel at home here.
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5. Three's Company
Three's Company is essentially the blueprint for the mixed-gender roommate comedy that New Girl builds on, with two women and one man sharing a small apartment and generating chaos from the arrangement. The humor is broader and more physical than New Girl's, but the core appeal is identical: people who shouldn't logically be living together end up caring deeply about each other. It's a fun watch if you want to see where a lot of these dynamics originally came from.
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More on shows like New Girl
Fans of New Girl tend to want a few specific things from a follow-up: a tight-knit group of friends who feel like a real unit, humor that comes from character rather than setup-and-punchline mechanics, at least some romantic storyline threaded through the comedy, and a sense that the show actually likes its characters. They're not looking for dark satire. They want to laugh and feel good about the people on screen.
The five recommendations here each scratch a different part of that itch. The Big Bang Theory and Three's Company both center on mismatched roommates whose differences are the engine of the comedy, with Three's Company being the obvious historical ancestor of the mixed-gender living situation Jess stumbles into. Will & Grace and Happy Endings are sharper and faster, built around friend groups with real history and plenty of romantic chaos underneath the jokes. A Different World takes the premise in a different direction, trading the apartment for a college campus and adding social weight, but the warmth and the ensemble energy are very much in the same family.
Happy Endings is probably the most underrated of the bunch and the closest in tone to New Girl's best seasons. It has the same willingness to be absurd without losing the emotional thread. Will & Grace is slicker and more urban, and Three's Company is broader and older, but both reward anyone who likes their comedy rooted in people who actually care about each other.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like New Girl?
- The Big Bang Theory is the most popular show similar to New Girl in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like New Girl still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to New Girl listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like New Girl?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.