Not Going Out (Seasons 1–14)

Not Going Out (2006) is a BBC One sitcom you can watch online on iFILM. It ran for sixteen seasons — from 2006 to 2022 — which makes it one of the longest-running British sitcoms of recent decades. The premise fits on a postcard: Lee, a cheerfully aimless northerner, lives in a London penthouse and reliably turns every situation into something worse.

Lee Mack writes and stars, and the combination works better than it has any right to. His straight-man rotation — Tim Vine as the sensible friend Tim, Miranda Hart in earlier seasons, Sally Bretton as Lucy later — gives the show a proper comic structure built on setup and punchline rather than improv energy. Classic studio sitcom, sixteen seasons deep, and still timing every joke like it's the first. Stream Not Going Out online on iFILM.