On 27 May 2011 it was revealed by BBC Three's Controller Zai Bennett, that the show had been cancelled along with fellow BBC Three Comedies Coming of Age and Lunch Monkeys. He explained that "They were good to the channel, but have had their time,". However he also revealed that a Christmas Special of How Not to Live Your Life is being planned and then after that it's all over forever.
With the likes of Lee Nelson on BBC3, it's ruining careers of young aspiring actors, even though Dan Clark is at an age of 35, he managed to write his own sitcom which grabbed the viewers of BBC3.
However, Deborah Orr in The Independent newspaper said in a review of the first episode, "It's a dead cert that How Not to Live Your Life will attract no prizes at all. A great deal of humour can be squeezed from observing the lives of stupid men. But Don Danbury is no David Brent and this new sitcom offers nothing except sound evidence that the BBC has now got more airtime than it can fill. This show is an insult to the intelligence of stupid men everywhere
We need to save this show, even though the Christmas special has been recorded and it will end there, we can't let a show like How Not To Live Your Life go to waste, it's a brilliant show and it brings smiles to the faces of the audience.