It’s New Year’s Eve and we join Lee (Lee Mack) and Lucy (Sally Bretton), Lee’s lovably feckless father Frank (Bobby Ball), generally put upon Toby (Hugh Dennis), the ever uptight Anna (Abigail Cruttenden), Lucy’s occasionally pompous father Geoffrey (Geoffrey Whitehead) and an unusually high-spirited mother Wendy (Deborah Grant) as they wait for the traditional midnight… trifle?
When parlour games are suspended in favour of a no-holds-barred round of New Year’s Resolutions, the fireworks might be in the house when friendly suggestions on how to improve individual behaviour are received with not a lot of festive spirit. Will it be a Happy New Year for Lee and Lucy in suburbia?
The brand-new series follows this special in early 2021.
Produced by Avalon, Not Going Out is directed by Nick Wood and produced by Jamie Rix. It was commissioned by Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer and Shane Allen, Controller Comedy Commissioning. The Executive Producers are Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, Lee Mack and Jon Thoday. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Gregor Sharp.
What the press said about series 10…
consistently hilarious ★★★★★
Jaci Stephen, The Mail on Sunday
a splendidly paced farce
Helen Stewart, The Sunday Times
A little comic masterpiece
Ali Catterill, The Guardian
Not Going Out truly is the safe space for those who find modern sitcoms rather lacking in the joke department.
Chris Bennion, The Times
The TV landscape would be a poorer place without Lee Mack ★★★★
Jill Pelton, TV Times
The laughs come thick and fast
Eleanor Relf, The Sun
in its tenth series, is without fault. It’s so finely crafted by Lee Mack that it could run for ever
David Stephenson, Sunday Express
it’s consistently funny … long may it continue ★★★★★
Daily Star on Sunday
precision-tooled comedy
David Butcher, The Radio Times
it derives real sparkle from Mack’s presence – he has funny bones
Vicki Power, The Daily Telegraph
very funny ★★★★
Mike Mulvihill, The Daily Mail
For more information, please contact: Dan Lloyd at Avalon on [email protected] / 020 7598 7222
