The long-running BBC sitcom could END after its 100th episode despite high ratings, the series creator admits

BBC Sitcom Not Going Out may finish after the upcoming thirteenth sequence, based on the present’s creator Lee Mack.

The 54-year-old comic, who stars as a fictionalized model of himself within the long-running programme, admitted his future could also be unsure after the one centesimal episode as he’s eager on “spherical numbers”.

He made the admission forward of writing the brand new season subsequent month and regardless of final 12 months’s 4.6 million viewership.

Disgrace! BBC sitcom Not Going Out may finish after the upcoming thirteenth sequence, based on present creator Lee Mack (Archive picture from BBC Broadcasting Home in London)

mentioned Lee The sun: “We’ll hit 100 episodes by the point we wrap up this newest sequence, and – as I am fairly obsessive about numbers – that may be a pleasant, spherical quantity to finish with.

“Both that or we’ll preserve going till we hit 200!”

Not Going Out first hit small screens in 2006 and peaked in viewers rankings with 5.63 million properties tuning in to the 2017 Christmas particular.

Uh-oh: The 54-year-old comic admitted the programme’s future could also be unsure after the one centesimal episode as he is eager on ‘spherical numbers’ (pictured with Sally Bretton)

Hugh Dennis, Megan Dodds, Miranda Hart, Tim Vine and the late Bobby Ball have all been solid members over time.

In 2020, viewers had been “emotional” and “in tears” after seeing Bobby posthumously seem on the fan-favorite present.

The comic examined constructive for coronavirus after being in Blackpool Victoria Hospital with respiratory issues and died on October 28 aged 76.

Bobby filmed the celebratory episode and upcoming eleventh sequence earlier than his dying, and followers had been completely satisfied to see extra of his character, Frank.

Dozens of followers took to Twitter to reward Bobby’s efficiency and the present for offering such a becoming tribute, based on legend, to the airing of the Christmas particular

Bobby performed Frank in Not Going Out, Lee’s troublesome father (performed by Lee), with the actor paying tribute to him after his dying.

Above? Lee mentioned, “We’ll hit 100 episodes by the point we end this newest sequence, and — as I am fairly obsessive about numbers — that may be a pleasant, spherical quantity to finish with.”