I was devastated to find out the BBC had canceled the Lee Mack comedy Not Going Out. I received an email from a fellow fan who started a petition asking the network to consider keeping this fan favorite on tv.
If you love the show, please support this petition! If you have never seen the show, sign the petition and pick this great show up on dvd. The final episode will be shown as a Christmas Special.
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.
