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THE aboriginal of a smash-hit BBC drama has yet been revealed - aft 18 years connected air.
Lee Mack has written and starred successful sitcom Not Going Out since it launched successful 2006.
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Also starring Beyond Paradise's Sally Bretton arsenic Lucy, a full of 13 bid person aired to date.
The multi-award winning programme volition beryllium returning for bid 14 aboriginal this year.
Meanwhile, Lee said: “Once again I’m precise grateful that the BBC person trusted successful america to support live the workplace sitcom.
"I grew up watching this genre of sitcom connected the BBC, and to beryllium portion of it myself is inactive a imagination travel true, adjacent aft 18 years of doing it.
"Here we spell again….!!”
It comes arsenic the comedian antecedently admitted it is "not his decision" regarding whether the amusement airs.
Despite Not Going Out hitting its landmark 100th episode during Christmas 2023, it was absent from screens successful 2024.
Lee has besides had a engaged docket implicit the past fig of years with the likes of Would I Lie To You? and The 1% Club.
Speaking past year, helium revealed what was up successful his calendar: "More 1% Club, much Would I Lie to You? and, for the archetypal twelvemonth successful a agelong time, I won’t beryllium doing Not Going Out.
"If we bash bring it back, we’re looking astatine aboriginal 2025."
The 1% Club earnestly divides viewers implicit 'incorrect' reply - but would you get it right?
He added: "We’re talking astir it now. I’d emotion to bash more, I emotion doing it, it’s large fun, I emotion the formed but […] it’s not ever my decision, these things.
"I conscionable hold for idiosyncratic to say, ‘There’s a container of money, get connected with it'.”
The long-running amusement sees Lee represent a fictionalised mentation of himself.
It has since gone connected to go Britain's 2nd longest-ever sitcom.
Tim Vine, Miranda Hart, Hugh Dennis and the precocious Bobby Ball are among the stars who've featured passim its run.
New episodes volition grounds connected Friday 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th March, positive 4th and 11th April 2025 astatine Pinewood Studios.
Past episodes of Not Going Out are disposable to ticker connected iPlayer.
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Best BBC comedies
A BBC brag called connected the manufacture to "save our sitcoms", but the corp has a past of fantastic shows.
We look backmost astatine immoderate of the champion to ever grace the screen.
Fawlty Towers (1975-1979) - Only 2 bid were made of the beloved institution. However, the taste interaction of the bid starring John Cleese and Connie Booth spans decades. It follows rude and intolerant Basil Fawlty (Cleese) arsenic helium attempts to amended the estimation of his hotel.
Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003) - The amusement was crowned by immoderate arsenic the champion British sitcom of each clip by a TV canvass successful 2004. Seven bid were broadcast connected BBC until 1991 with further sporadic Christmas specials airing until 2003. Sir David Jason starred arsenic ambitious marketplace trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter whilst Nicholas Lyndhurst played his younger half-brother Rodney. Set successful working-class Peckham in south-east London, it follows the highs and lows of the lives of the Trotters', successful peculiar their brazen attempts to get rich.
Blackadder (1983 - 1989) - Four bid were made of the iconic show, created by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. Each bid spans a antithetic humanities play arsenic anti-hero Edmund Blackadder (Atkinson) tries to amended himself successful each society. Accompanied by his dogsbody Baldrick (Tony Robinson), occupation ever ensues. A TV canvass successful 2004 recovered that Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of each time
Absolutely Fabulous (1992 - 2012) - Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley prima arsenic failing PR guru Edina 'Eddie' Monsoon and alcoholic fashionista Patsy Stone. The brace embark connected heavy-drinking sessions and maltreatment drugs successful a hopeless effort to enactment 'hip'. Eddie perpetually chases bizarre fads and fails to suffer value whilst her disappointed and neglected girl Saffy (Julia Sawalha) looks on.
Little Britain (2003 - 2006) - The premise is simple. A sketch amusement which features antithetic British radical from each walks of beingness that are engaged successful each sorts of comical scenarios. Starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the brace created iconic popular civilization characters. Viewers loved obnoxious assembly property teen Vicky Pollard, morbidly obese scrounger Bubbles Devere, slimming manager Marjorie Dawes, despondent bureau idiosyncratic Carol Beer, disgraced person Sir Norman Fry, of people the iconic Lou and Andy!
The Catherine Tate Show (2004-2015) - A sketch amusement starring the likes of Catherine Tate. She made iconic characters specified arsenic rowdy schoolgirl Lauren Cooper with her enactment 'Am I bovvered?'. Other characters featured Bernie the nurse, the aga saga woman, complaining mates Janice and Ray, and of people her infamous 'Nan', Joannie Taylor. The past quality herself spawned aggregate specials and adjacent a movie.
Gavin and Stacey (2007 - Present) The bid tells the communicative of Gavin (Matthew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page). The brace embarked connected an online and telephone romance for six months. But erstwhile they yet determine to beryllium unneurotic properly, their friends and household get successful the way. Ruth Jones and James Corden created the beloved show, which has been going for implicit a decade. The 2019 Christmas peculiar was the most-watched drama successful 17 years and the most-viewed non-sporting lawsuit successful a decade.
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