Not Going Out

Plot

Main article: Listing of Maybe not Heading out episodes

Series one (2006)

Lee, unambitious and unmotivated, goes in one job to a different, living off the great graces of his Californian landlady Kate, with whom that he shares a set in London. It's not well before they discover that their friendship is changing in to something more. The problem is significantly complicated by the truth that Lee's closest friend Tim, an accountant from Henley, is Kate's ex-boyfriend - and that he really wants to repair his relationship with Kate. Lee is torn between pursuing his growing feelings for Kate and remaining loyal to his increasingly paranoid friend.

Series two (2007)

Kate went back again to America leaving Lee with a set neither Tim nor he is able to afford to help keep. Tim's sister Lucy, a head hunter recently right back from 10 years abroad, buys the flat and becomes the brand new landlady and flatmate to Lee. Tim also hires a cleaner, Barbara, to wash the flat. In "Gay", the series' 2nd episode, 51-year-old Guy first appears and that he soon becomes Lucy's boyfriend. Lee, now an ice-cream seller, later seems to fall for Lucy. Within the last episode Tim and Lee believe Guy is really a gangster and it has been smuggling diamonds but as it happens he was having a diamond gemstone designed for Lucy likely to propose on an intimate holiday. Lee leaves the airport thinking Lucy has said yes to Guy but she returns saying that she was too young to obtain married and that she had split with Guy. There is also a Xmas Special in 2007 which introduced Tim and Lucy's parents for the very first time.

Series three (2009)

The 3rd series sees Lee attempting to pursue Lucy, frequently egged on by Barbara that he invariably eventually ends up making things worse for himself. We also witness Lucy questioning her sexuality, which shocks Lee. Tim's girlfriend Daisy also becomes more of a fixture in series three. Within the last episode Lucy is all about to marry Pavlov the mechanic so he is able to stay in the united kingdom however she realises that she's made an error and Lee gets Barbara to marry Pavlov alternatively, the final scene is of these driving off together for his or her honey moon in India. Barbara sometimes appears in the flat, attempting to stop with Lee's dad, Frank, who's seen within the last episode, that was broadcast as a Xmas Special on the 23rd December 2009. Lucy and Lee kiss underneath the mistletoe.

Series four (2010)

A fourth series is a result of be filmed October to early November 2010 and Lee Mack has said it'll venture out in late November 2010.

Main/recurring cast

Actor/Actress

Character

Occupation

Notes

Duration

Lee Mack

Lee

Ice Cream Man

Lucy's lodger

Series 1 - present

Tim Vine

Tim Adams

Corporate Accountant

Lee's closest friend

Miranda Hart

Barbara

Self-employed cleaner

Cleaner

Series 2 - present

Sally Bretton

Lucy Adams

Headhunter

Tim's sister

Katy Wix

Daisy

Hair dresser

Tim's girlfriend

Simon Dutton

Guy

Businessman

Lucy's boyfriend

Series 2 (recurring)

Timothy West

Geoffrey Adams

Retired

Tim & Lucy's parents

Series 2 - present (recurring)

Deborah Grant

Wendy Adams

Not known

Megan Dodds

Kate

Book publisher

Tim's ex-girlfriend

Series 1 (star role)

Guest cast

Aleksander Mikic

Alexandra Gilbreath

Angela McHale

Lorelei King

Richard Freeman

Cordelia Bugeja

Julia Morris

Jamie Borthwick

Rupert Simonian

Paul Jaques

Sarah de Freitas

Adrian Hood

Duncan Duff

Jennifer McEvoy

Kim Wall

Stewart Francis

Thaila Zucchi

Sheila Collings

Oriane Messina

Cressida Whyte

Kika Mirylees

Kerry Shale

Jonathan Coote

Justin Edwards

Clare Thomson

Damian Kell

Edward Halsted

Sarah Weldon

Rebecca Gethings

Kelly Preston

Melanie Gutteridge

Ed Weeks

Adam Longworth

Andy Linden

Julia Watson

Chandrika Chevli

Main Crew

Series Producers:

Charlie Hanson

Alex Hardcastle

Nick Wood

Richard Allen-Turne

Lee Mack

Jon Thoday

Chris Iliffe

Jamie Rix

Series Writers:

Paul Kerensa

Lee Mack

Simon Evans

Andrew Collins

Dave Cohen

Simon Griffiths

David Isaac

Liam Woodman

Milton Jones

Peter Tilbury

Tim Vine

Sound Department:

Glenn Calder

Matt Stronge

Tom Turner

Mario Mooney

Arliss Howard

Keith Nixon

Leigh Crisp

Production

Nearly all an episode is shot on set before a live audience at Teddington Studios. You will find two main sets, one being the flat and another being the bar that Lee and Tim frequent. Outdoor shots and real indoor location shots are also utilized on occasion.

The show is filmed in HDTV even though unlike other BBC HD sitcoms it's not simulcast on BBC HD, but shown on BBC HD half an hour following the BBC One airing.

Most of the humour is dependant on wordplay and double entendres delivered in a deadpan manner. This is actually the comedy style Lee Mack and Tim Vine purchased both in stand-up and in The Sketch Show, to the extent that the occasional one-liner from their solo performances is slipped in. This really is mostly one sided with Kate an average of being the victim of the joke. Sight gags will also be commonly used.

In the very first series, episodes will be compiled by Mack and Andrew Collins, with members of the cast credited for additional material. Series 2 saw Simon Evans and Paul Kerensa join the writing team. It had been Mack and Collins's job to create the majority of the episode's material with Evans and Kerensa 'gagging' them up. Series 3 saw the writing team expand dramatically with writers such as for example Darin Henry, Daniel Peak and Simon Dean adding to the primary episodes (all co-written with Mack) and the "gag writing" team was expanded from two members to nearly around eight members (excluding main writers) for a passing fancy episode.

In the initial pilot of the series, which is not aired, the element of Kate was played by Catherine Tate.

Lee Mack announced throughout one his recent operate gigs that Maybe not Heading out would indeed be right back for a fourth series, to the delight of numerous fans.

Title sequence

The very first series featured Tim, Lee and Kate doing a silly dance in a haze of blue lights holding lighted signs reading "NOT", "GOING", and "OUT". At the conclusion of the sequence, Lee and Tim stood holding their signs and Kate sat down on hers. The lights on Lee's sign then went.

The 2nd series was quite similar, even though with the departure of Kate, her place was taken by new character Lucy. The title sequence ended with Lucy standing alongside Lee and Tim holding her register. An addition to the title sequence was that after Lee's sign went, you can actually hear the electricity going. Barbara then is available in holding a plug and says, "Sorry. " This title sequence stayed exactly the same for Series 3.

The title sequence for the Xmas specials were like the one for Series 2 and 3, the only real differences being that Lee, Tim, Lucy and Barbara are in Xmas hats at the conclusion, and Barbara says, "Happy Xmas, " and bursts out laughing rather than her usual, "Sorry. "

The theme music, compiled by Alex Walsh-Taylor and arranged by Steve Brown, features vocals from the Frank Sinatra impersonator. The lyrics are:

We're maybe not heading out

Maybe not remaining in

Just loitering with my head in a spin

But you don't have to scream and shout

We're maybe not heading out

We're maybe not heading out

DVD releases

Series

Discs

Year

Ep #

Release Dates

Region 2

Region 4

Complete Series 1

1

2006

6

22 October 2007

13 Might 2009

Complete Series 2

2

2007

8

2 February 2009

9 December 2009

Complete Series 3

2

2009

8

TBA

TBA

Complete Series 1 & 2

3

2006 & 2007

14

2 February 2009

TBA

References

^ "News - Maybe not Heading out will undoubtedly be right back for yet another series". British Sitcom =26 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-03.

^ "Andrew Collins' Blog- No more going out". Andrew Collins 30 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-28.

^ "Not Heading out is right back from the dead". The British Comedy Guide. 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2009-12-15.

^ "You Ask Us". Radio Times. 4 August 2007.

^ a b Maxwell, Dominic (14 December 2009). "Lee Mack at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury". The days on line. Retrieved 24 December 2009.

External links

Maybe not Heading out at BBC On line

Maybe not Heading out at the web Movie Database

Maybe not Heading out at TELEVISION. com

Maybe not Heading out at the British Comedy Guide

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