Not Going Out
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2006 - 2023
- 100 episodes (13 series)
Fast-paced, gag-packed studio sitcom starring Lee Mack and Sally Bretton. Also features Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Geoffrey Whitehead, Deborah Grant, Bobby Ball and more.
- Due to return in June 2025
- Series 4, Episode 3 repeated tomorrow at 10:55pm on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 939
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Not Going Out, 100th episode review
A hundred episodes is quite some achievement for any UK sitcom. But it also means Lee Mack's remarkably long-lived Not Going Out has come to feel like part of the furniture rather than appointment-to-view TV.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th December 2023Not Going Out, 100th episode review
The second longest-running British TV sitcom is starting to feel repetitive - but it's still a pleasant farce.
Rachael Healy, i Newspaper, 24th December 2023Lee Mack: It's important to keep the British sitcom going
Comedian's show Not Going Out set for 100th episode to air this Christmas.
David Singleton, Broadcast, 17th November 2023Lee Mack unsure of Not Going Out future: "We're having chats"
"We're doing the 100th episode this Christmas, so we are deciding, shall we say, and so are the BBC. We're having chats, so we'll see. One hundred is a lovely round number though, isn't it? I can absolutely confirm I won't be doing 200!"
Lidia Molina-Whyte, Radio Times, 7th September 2023Not Going Out review
Lee Mack's gag machine farce is still a neatly crafted blast from the past.
Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 24th June 2023Not Going Out: The enduring appeal of TV comedy's biggest dinosaur
Now the UK's second longest-running sitcom ever, Lee Mack's old-school BBC gag fest has been defying reviewers for more than a decade
Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 23rd June 2023Not Going Out becomes Britain's third longest running TV sitcom
Not Going Out now sits third in the list of British TV sitcoms ordered by the number of series to their name. Only Last Of The Summer Wine and ChuckleVision have run for more series.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd June 2023What's the secret to Not Going Out's success?
A big part of it is its simplicity: Lee Mack is a stand-up by trade.
Laura Vickers-Green, Den Of Geek, 23rd June 2023In praise of Lee Mack
I've always liked Lee Mack, but in the last couple of years something weird has happened. I think I've started to love Lee Mack.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd June 2023Not Going Out's future in doubt after 13 series as writer reveals 'it's a nice round number to end on'
Lee Mack says: "We'll have reached 100 episodes by the time we've finished this latest series and - as I am quite obsessive about numbers - that could be a nice, round number to end on. Either that or we go on until we've reached 200!"
Roderick McPhee, The Sun, 29th January 2023