Series one to three of Not Going Out, the Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winning BBC sitcom, written by and starring LEE MACK, are to be released in a special edition box set. Packed full of the jokes, jibes and general misunderstandings of happy-go-lucky Lee (LEE MACK), his best mate Tim (fellow BAFTA Award winner TIM VINE) and the objects of Lee’s hapless affections, the DVD is out on 27th September 2010 from Universal Pictures Playback.

In series one, meet two flatmates, Lee (LEE MACK) and Kate (MEGAN DODDS, Viva Blackpool & Spooks), who have a problem. Their easy-going, comfortable friendship is steadily moving into uncharted waters - a situation complicated by the fact that Lee's best mate, Tim (fellow BAFTA winner and stand-up, TIM VINE), is Kate's ex-boyfriend. Unburdened by ambition or drive, LEE drifts from one ill-advised job to another, living off the goodwill and generosity of his clean living Californian landlady. But whilst Kate is determined to push Lee into making something of his life, uptight accountant Tim struggles to cope with her rapidly blossoming friendship with Lee…

Series two finds Lee - now the proud owner of an ice-cream van - with a new set of dilemmas to contend with: his flatmate Kate has moved out for good, and his best mate and landlord Tim has put the apartment up for sale. Faced with the prospect of losing the flat, not to mention his well-meaning but utterly useless cleaner Barbara (MIRANDA HART, Miranda), Lee rents the spare room to Tim's ambitious younger sister Lucy (SALLY BRETTON, The Office, Green Wing). The arrangement turns out to be far from perfect however with high-flyer Lucy taking on Lee in a bidding war for the flat. On the plus side, his new domestic set-up does lead him to discover the art world, the underworld, and the lengths one man will go for tickets to an England football match…

In series three, following the series two finale, in which Lee successfully sabotaged Lucy’s relationship with her then boyfriend Guy, we find a man still with no significant plan to address his feelings for Lucy. However with pregnancies, insurance scams, the return of his absent father (TOMMY BALL) and lesbian neighbours muddying the water, it looks like he’s got enough to keep his mind off the bigger picture.

DVD Extras include: Series1-3 Bonus Material, Audio Commentary, Behind-the-scenes, Photo Gallery and Not Going Out On Location.

“It had to happen sooner or later. BBC ONE has finally found a sitcom worth staying in for”
Jane Simon, The Daily Mirror

"Lee Mack's comedy Not Going Out turned into one of the most laugh-aloud comedies on screen in aeons. The ubiquitous shots of buildings lend it a distinctly American feel, but it is the tightness of the scripts with quite complex gags built up over conversations - particularly between Lee and his friend Tim - that make it so different."
Jaci Stephen, The Mail on Sunday
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Not Going Out, Series 1-3 (cert 15 - UK & Ireland), £34.99 RRP Avalon Television
Length: 11hrs 42 mins, inc extras, Release date: 27th September 2010

For more information or pictures, please contact Roxie Maskall, Jo Cross or Dan Lloyd at Avalon on: 020 7598 7222 roxiem@avalonuk.com, joc@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com

WHAT THE PRESS HAS SAID ABOUT NOT GOING OUT:

“It had to happen sooner or later. BBC ONE has finally found a sitcom worth staying in for… When was the last time any sitcom delivered a gag as perfect as: “Just because Thora Hird can’t walk upstairs doesn’t mean she’s a dalek”? If you can think of any situation where you could shoehorn in a one-liner like that, I’d love to hear it. In the meantime, Not Going Out looks like the perfect solution to Friday nights.”
Jane Simon, Daily Mirror

“This new comedy, starring comedian Lee Mack as a wise-cracking loser, is the most gag-laden sitcom this year. Telling jokes as we know it is almost a dying art in TV comedy but here Mack cleverly combines the traditions of sitcom with some classy production values. In short, it's funny. If you don't laugh during this half-hour comedy, you should get out more: Not Going Out is definitely not for you.”
David Stephenson, Sunday Express

“Lee Mack's comedy Not Going Out turned into one of the most laugh-aloud comedies on screen in aeons. The ubiquitous shots of buildings lend it a distinctly American feel, but it is the tightness of the scripts with quite complex gags built up over conversations - particularly between Lee and his friend Tim - that make it so different.”
Jaci Stephen, The Mail on Sunday

“I must admit I tend to have a mild panic attack whenever a preview copy of a new British sitcom lands on my doormat. As does my wife, so rather than remain at my side to offer moral support as I go about my professional duty, she'll usually sneak off to bed with a fat Jilly Cooper and a small bucket of Cotes Du Rhone. However, this new effort from comic Lee Mack not only held our attention but drew genuine titters from the pair of us, which I have to stress is praise indeed.”
Mike Ward, ‘Saturday Magazine’ The Express

“There's no shortage of gags in this enjoyable new sitcom. No wonder given it's part written by stand-up comic Lee Mack, a man never knowingly caught short of comedy…And look out for the perfect joke on self-harming… Not much "sit" but plenty of "com" in Lee Mack's new sitcom about a man, his flatmate and his friend.”
David Butcher, Radio Times

"This is a programme you can really savour.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian


LEE MACK BIOGRAPHY
LEE MACK is an acclaimed writer and performer, as well as the star of Not Going Out. Whilst becoming one of the UK’s most established comedy acts - extending his 2010 national tour Going Out twice, totaling over 100 shows, selling in excess of 200,000 tickets and recorded for DVD release this Autumn - LEE’s credits also include: a resident team captain on Would I Lie To You? (BBC ONE), guest host on Have I Got News For You and as a key writer and performer in the BAFTA Award winning The Sketch Show (ITV1), which ran for two series in the UK before LEE went on to work alongside KELSEY GRAMMER in an American version of the show. He has also written and starred in his Sony Radio Award nominated The Lee Mack Show (BBC Radio 2); hosted They Think It’s All Over (BBC ONE); and headlined and hosted Live at the Apollo (BBC ONE). An award-winning stand-up, LEE'S 2007 tour was a sell-out, nominated for a British Comedy Award, recorded for release on DVD, sold over 150,000 copies and subsequently broadcast on Channel 4. A nominee for the prestigious Perrier Award, LEE has won a Time Out Best Live Comedy Award and in 2005, the Best Stand-Up award at the Loaded LAFTAS.

TIM VINE BIOGRAPHY
Returning for the fourth series of Not Going Out, TIM also recently sold-out his debut appearance at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, which led to a cameo role in Neighbours. Further TV credits include Countdown and resident comedian on Richard & Judy and Celebrity Fame Academy and The Royal Variety show. He has also played to sell-out audiences at the critically acclaimed Montreal ‘Just For Laughs’ Comedy Festival and won Celebrity Mastermind with his chosen subject Elvis Presley.
TIM has sold-out five Edinburgh Festival shows and four UK tours and in 2010 he embarked on a nationwide tour with his brand new show The Joke-amotive.

SALLY BRETTON BIOGRAPHY
A graduate of the Central School of Speech and Drama, audiences will know SALLY from her performances in some of the most successful comedy series of recent years including The Office (BBC TWO), Green Wing (CHANNEL 4) and Absolute Power (BBC TWO). Most recently SALLY has appeared in Lewis (ITV1) and My Family (Christmas Special for BBC ONE).
SALLY has also had notable success on stage. In 2002, SALLY was nominated in the Best Actress category at the Manchester Evening News Awards for her role as Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Most recently she has appeared as Goneril in King Lear and as Heloise in In Extremis at the Globe Theatre, London. Other stage credits include Arthur Miller's All My Sons at the Library Theatre, Manchester and A Conversation at the Manchester Royal Exchange.

MIRANDA HART BIOGRAPHY
An acclaimed live performer and comedy actress, MIRANDA is best known for writing and starring in her own sitcom double BAFTA Award nominated MIRANDA, for which she won a Royal Television Society Award for best Comedy Performance. A regular on our screens, other recent credits include being nominated for a British Comedy Award in 2006 for her role in the sci-fi sitcom Hyperdrive, in addition to featuring Jack Dee’s Lead Balloon, Ab Fab, Angelos, Nighty Night and Smack the Pony.

MIRANDA gained her reputation as one of our top, up and coming comediennes from her stand-up and sketch stage shows at the Edinburgh Festival over the last 10 years. They included Miranda Hart-Throbs! and Miranda Hart's House Party which ran at the Pleasance, Edinburgh and then at the Soho Theatre in London. Her role as a stand-up recently earned her a successful appearance on Have I Got News For You.

KATY WIX BIOGRAPHY
A supremely talented and versatile actress, KATY has been a regular performer on BBC One hit drama Torchwood and has also performed in many other successful television shows including Extras (BBC Two) and Time Trumpet (BBC Two). She was also a regular cast member in AL MURRAY’S sketch show Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder.

In addition, KATY has received a large amount of acclaim for her work with her comedy partner Anna Crilly, who together have had two sold out shows at Edinburgh and have appeared in both series of Comedy Shuffle (BBC Three) and Comedy Cuts (ITV1). They have also made their own radio pilot for BBC Radio 2.

KATY has recently appeared in hit BBC comedies Outnumbered and Miranda and will soon be appearing as one of the lead talent in BBC Three’s The King is Dead alongside NICK MOHAMMED and SIMON BIRD.


AVALON TELEVISION
Avalon Television is one of the leading producers of award-winning comedy and light entertainment programmes in the UK. Founded in 1993, the independent production house supplies television programming to all the British terrestrial channels and the leading cable and satellite stations, in addition to content for radio broadcasters.

Recent television productions include: the quadruple-BAFTA and triple British Comedy Award-winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp (ITV1); BBC THREE ratings hit Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show; three series of the Royal Television Society and Rose D’Or award-winning primetime sitcom Not Going Out (BBC ONE), currently in production with its fourth series and set to return in the autumn; and BBC THREE’s highest ever rating entertainment series, Russell Howard’s Good News.

Avalon Television also produces radio, with recent projects including: 7 Day Sunday hosted by CHRIS ADDISON, joined by regulars SARAH MILLICAN and ANDY ZALTZMAN; Yes it’s the Ashes, ANDY ZALTZMAN’s topical look at the ashes series; the Sony Award nominated The Frank Skinner Show, which goes out on Saturday mornings on Absolute Radio;; and DAVE GORMAN’s Sunday afternoon Absolute Radio show.


UNIVERSAL PICTURES
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