Huge BBC sitcom’s future in doubt after 13 series as writer reveals ‘it’s a nice round number to end on’
thesun.co.ukIT’S Britain’s second longest-running sitcom, still reeling in millions of viewers as work begins on its thirteenth series. But creator Lee Mack has revealed that the future of Not Going Out is in doubt.
The comedian, who plays a fictionalised version of himself in the BBC show, is due to begin writing the new series next month.
But he told me: “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!” Not Going Out has followed layabout Lee’s misadventures since 2006 and has hit peaks of over six millions viewers.
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