Video: Lee Mack on his on-screen marriage

At Christmas viewers of Not Going Out saw Lucy and Lee finally tie the knot in the season finale. So what's next for the couple?

Not Going Out, Season 7 review

When you're in the 7th season with the same old formula, you really need to push the "will they, won't they" up a notch.

Not Going Out: the end

Not Going Out came to its conclusion in December, and has been consistent and homely viewing, with frequent laughs at the characters' expense. It is silly, frustratingly painful watching (the protagonists get it so wrong every single time) and very rude.

Not Going Out: Is it over?

Most NGO fans, including myself, hope that it will return for at least one more series, as it will be interesting to see what Lee and Lucy are like as a married couple.

Radio Times review

Slacker Lee, in pyjama bottoms, slumped in front of the telly, eating cereal straight from the box, is at the eye of a big festive occasion. But his pint-sized Death Star, his dad Frank (the peerless Bobby Ball) looms large. Or, rather, small.

Inevitably, this means the pair of them get drunk, and their night on the tiles is encapsulated in a brilliant montage of increasing degradation. It's a classic Not Going Out sequence in an episode that's surprisingly poignant. Maybe it's something to do with the time of year.

There are loads of great gags from Lee Mack, the human joke-rocket-launcher, while the stately Geoffrey Whitehead, as Lucy's fridge-freezer father, steals every scene. And watch out for some special guests...

Lee Mack: Christmas episode could be the last

Lee Mack has hinted that Not Going Out is coming to an end after eight years.

Radio Times review

A peach of a series finale, running in real time with Lee Mack in his favourite spot at the bar throughout. Lucy (Sally Bretton) is on her way to a restaurant for a job interview, and if she gets the role she'll be leaving for good. So Lee and Toby (Hugh Dennis) ponder life for Lee without Lucy. Should he run next door and hammer on the window, like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate? Can he even admit he loves her?

The show's detractors say it's just a heap of puns with no soul. Not tonight. The underlying theme of the lackadaisical joker using silliness as a defence mechanism is blown open. Yet the gags - and there are many brilliant ones - never, ever stop.

Lee Mack and Daniel Peak's sitcom mainstay lands itself an extended Christmas slot to close off the current series, providing ample time for Lee and Lucy to encounter some supersized escapades. Lee is dragged along for a boisterous night out with his boozehound of a dad, leading to predictably calamitous consequences, not to mention some surprisingly sensuous sashaying to Whitney Houston's finest three minutes. If that's not enough, a compilation of outtakes from the series goes out at 11.05pm on Saturday.

Radio Times review

In the last series we saw what happened when Lee and co were stuck in an alpine cable car. Now our threesome are on a plane to a budget holiday when Lee's vibrant lunacy starts to cause problems.

To begin with, he's scared of flying, and Daisy's airhead asides don't help. When Lucy notes that there hasn't been a terrorist threat in ages, Daisy chirps, "So we're due one any day!" It's this kind of two-line rhythm Not Going Out plays on. That, and a twisted logic. "They're just doing important last-minute safety checks," Lucy reassures Lee, prompting the response, "If they're important, why have they left them to the last minute?"