My Wonderful Life (TV series)

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.