For those that already know me and for those of you that don’t, I am obsessed with British television! Though it had been on for 3 seasons, I only JUST started getting into this quirky little sitcom, Not Going Out.
I was suspicious when a new episode did not get released last Friday and today I found out the horrible news that BBC has canceled it! Truly sad day for television.
Co-Writer Andrew Collins wrote on his blog: BBC1 have indeed cancelled the award-winning sitcom Not Going Out. This is very sad news, and something of a surprise, as we went out with our highest ever audience figure for the last show, Marriage*, and critics seem to have been much kinder to the third series. Plus, we’d run in some new writers and I personally think it was a strong series. Who understands TV controllers? Not me. It all comes down to numbers in the end, even though the BBC is a publicly funded broadcaster and thus not reliant on advertising revenue and thus not really in the ratings game to the degree where, like American broadcasters, it cancels shows that aren’t performing to a set of made-up targets. But that’s what’s happened: over three series, despite the ratings gradually going up, show by show, and series by series, it still hasn’t rung the requisite bell.
Andrew confirmed there is one more episode, the 8th episode of Season 3 that won’t probably be shown until Christmas.
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not gong out , is the best comedy, since only fool and horses,stopped showing and their keeping,horne and cordell (i think thats his name),that was supposed to be funny,it is about has funny has a constipated cow ,(full of crap) it was boring to hell,the jokes were has dry has old prunes,and that films they did (lesbian vampire killers) was so boring, i fell asleep watching after just 10mins,and now the bbc,have done a remake of reginald perrin,with martin clunes,what a time to put that on,when the country is in a credit crisis and people are in dire straights over their own finances,putting that show,would give them ideas and to top themselves,has it is about a man who tried to kill himself,the viewing public,don’t need ideas,mister chairmen of the bbc,come into the real world ,you wally
I only discovered Not Going Out about 6 months ago. I can understand the writer’s comments when he said that audiences were gradually increasing series by series because since seeing it, Ive recommended it to everyone (most of whom had never heard of it). May be that says something about the BBC’s promotion of the show (poor) rather than the quality of the show, which is fantastic.
I agree with you 100%! I hadn’t really heard much about it but as soon as I started watching I was hooked!
I’m really sad its not been renewed.
I’m not sure if you still care about Not Going Out, but I went to see Lee Mack in stand up last night and he told us it was coming back!!
Wow Emily!! Thank you so much for sharing this great news!! Did he say when?
i went to see lee mack live on thurs night (4th feb 2010) at northamptons derngate and he told me that not going out will be back in november, this is 100% true
http://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/00000218/not_going_out_is_back_from_the_dead/