Still Not Going Out
9 March 2007You may remember I wrote about a new sitcom last year called Not Going Out. It was very fresh and very funny, with a very high gag rate which is something that seems to have been lost in modern comedy – until now.
The good news is that the show has been nominated for the Royal Television Society Breakthrough Award. The awards take place next week, so fingers crossed on that one.
Even better news though, is that there’s going to be a second series (hurray!). Andrew Collins, who co-wrote the series with Lee Mack, posted this comment on his blog
“I’m apparently allowed to say that Not Going Out has been commissioned for a second series. Seven episodes this time. Should air around the same time, October/November.”
I can’t wait for that one. I wonder if there’ll be a repeat of the first series before then?
In related news, one of the show’s stars Tim Vine is currently a student on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy. He’s doing well and seems to be this year’s ‘bloke that can sing and be funny’, which in my mind is the whole point of the competition (apart from raising money for Comic Relief). He may go far …
[Edited to say - I obviously should have been voting not posting last night. Tim got knocked out of the Academy, far too early in my opinion. Maybe my posting that he was so good put the kibosh on his chances? If so, I'm very sorry Tim!]
Excellent; I quite enjoyed the first series of Not Going Out, although I kept thinking of Megan Dodds’s character from Spooks, which was a bit disorienting.
Shame about Tim. I’ve only seen the first night of Fame Academy, but his performance there was pretty decent, and there were several who certainly should’ve been booted before him.
I spent most of the first episode of Not Going Out trying to work out where I’d seen Megan Dodds before. (I only half watched the series of Spooks she was in, so didn’t connect her to it at first) I spent the rest of the time laughing!
Tim should definitely not have gone – he was by far the best all round entertaining person there. It’s just not the same without him.
[...] Going Out Again You may remember me writing a couple of times about a new, very funny BBC1 sitcom called Not Going [...]
[...] I posted a while ago, Not Going Out is getting a second series and I was supposed to go to one of the read-throughs a [...]