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Old 26-12-2015, 13:33
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Just watched it and have to disagree with most of the comments on here. I thought it was fantastic. I enjoyed it all the way through.
I wouldn't go that far, but I did enjoy it and laughed out loud a few times. Le face it, it was better than a lot of other crap.
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Old 26-12-2015, 14:03
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....you forgot the cats.
Naked cats!!!!????
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Old 26-12-2015, 14:18
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I like Die Hard and I didn't mind the homage. It just wasn't very funny. I expected to like it, since I read the complaints first. Usually, if an episode is panned here, I enjoy it. That didn't happen this time though. It had some funny moments, but I usually laugh more at NGO.
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Old 26-12-2015, 15:04
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I wouldn't go that far, but I did enjoy it and laughed out loud a few times. Le face it, it was better than a lot of other crap.
Agree, it was certainly far better than the majority of modern 'comedy' on TV and there ia a long tradition of British comedy programmes occasionally having a dark side them.
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Old 26-12-2015, 15:30
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Wonder if there will be a new series next year? I'm hoping there is.
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Old 26-12-2015, 22:33
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I enjoyed most of it, and thought it was funnier than some of the recent episodes have been.

The only things I weren't happy with were the birth scenes. Why should it be considered appropriate to have scenes of women giving birth at Christmas?
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Old 26-12-2015, 22:38
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I enjoyed most of it, and thought it was funnier than some of the recent episodes have been.

The only things I weren't happy with were the birth scenes. Why should it be considered appropriate to have scenes of women giving birth at Christmas?
Why not? It happens, you know.
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Old 27-12-2015, 00:05
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I found this episode too violent. It is meant to be a comedy. What is funny about a guy in a mask with a gun, threatening to kill and smashing security guards unconscious. I felt uneasy watching it.
My thoughts precisely.
Ignoring the obvious and predictable PC Brigade comments, this was an absolutely fantastic episode from start to finish! Magnificent! World class in every sense of the phrase. A true Christmas special, funny all the way.. and I'm not even a fan of Not Going Out.
You surely jest.
I'm a fan and thought it was ok,darkest episode yet though,only really funny line was when Daisy asked what time Midnight Mass started or something like that
Reminds me of the time I asked the price of something in the 99p shop..........
Same here. I thought it was very enjoyable and very funny throughout. There are some real humourless misery guts on here.
Just because we all laugh at different things?????
Name calling now, and I'm the unintelligent one? Have you seen every film that came out over 20 years ago? (Cue calls that it was such a massive hit etc.) Some people don't like certain genres, or certain actors (if you can call Bruce Willis an actor - he's a movie star, that's true; actor . . . hmmm??!!) Tell me how I should inform myself to your satisfaction? Should I only watch films that you've watched?? Die Hard may be well regarded as an action film but that's about as far as it goes. If certain people judge other people's intelligence by that one film, then that says more about them than it does me.
Quite, I've never seen Diehard so wouldn't have made a connection. I was disappointed as I love NGO, this was a bit heavy on violence and short on humour.
I enjoyed most of it, and thought it was funnier than some of the recent episodes have been.

The only things I weren't happy with were the birth scenes. Why should it be considered appropriate to have scenes of women giving birth at Christmas?
Think about it.


I can watch episodes of NGO many times over, but this is one that I won't be watching again.
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Old 27-12-2015, 08:13
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Rubbish.
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Old 27-12-2015, 12:05
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I enjoyed most of it, and thought it was funnier than some of the recent episodes have been.

The only things I weren't happy with were the birth scenes. Why should it be considered appropriate to have scenes of women giving birth at Christmas?
Does the same apply to Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Vicar of Dibley and many other comedy programmes that for some strange reason have had a birth scene in their Christmas special?
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Old 27-12-2015, 14:04
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Why should it be considered appropriate to have scenes of women giving birth at Christmas?
Just have a think of what Christmas commemorates..
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Old 27-12-2015, 14:33
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I'm a fan and thought it was ok,darkest episode yet though,only really funny line was when Daisy asked what time Midnight Mass started or something like that
That sounded like a stupid comment from Daisy but where I live a lot of churches seem to start their Midnight Mass (despite the name) at about 11.30pm so it was actually a perfectly valid question by her for once!
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Old 27-12-2015, 15:13
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Just have a think of what Christmas commemorates..
Argos?
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Old 27-12-2015, 16:08
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I don't mind sitcoms going down the more dramatic route occasionally but the tone plus the extended hour's run meant the funnies were definitely more spread out than they were in the typical half-hour episode. Still not entirely convinced Hugh Dennis as the best replacement for the more quickfire Tim Vine.

The one problem for me with this year's NGO was that I work in a department store - when a siege in a sitcom was followed the next day by a real-world machete attack in a local mall, I damn near resigned for my own safety!
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Old 27-12-2015, 16:28
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The only things I weren't happy with were the birth scenes. Why should it be considered appropriate to have scenes of women giving birth at Christmas?
I think quite a few people entirely missed the ironic intentions of this
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Old 27-12-2015, 17:07
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Why not? It happens, you know.
And the rest ....

I think quite a few people entirely missed the ironic intentions of this
Indeed, we really need an 'irony' smiley.
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Old 27-12-2015, 17:19
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I disagree with most moaning about it. It wasn't brilliant but it wasn't bad either. I don't agree that becuase of recent events in Paris that this programme should not have been shown either, I've never quite got that thinking. If people are really that sensitive, then either don't watch TV as its full of various programmes/films that include such things a lot or stop watching if you didn't realise beforehand what the programme would entail.

Those moaning about it didn't think it was funny but it had a fair few laughs based on how they were messing up as usual in what they said/did. As for the robber, it was completely unrealistic that he could keep on shooting and not reload once. If he did reload, I didn't notice him doing so.

I hope we do see more of Not Going Out with Lee/Lucy as a couple/family and keep Hugh Dennis and his annoying TV wife in it too.
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Old 27-12-2015, 19:34
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I disagree with most moaning about it. It wasn't brilliant but it wasn't bad either. I don't agree that becuase of recent events in Paris that this programme should not have been shown either, I've never quite got that thinking. If people are really that sensitive, then either don't watch TV as its full of various programmes/films that include such things a lot or stop watching if you didn't realise beforehand what the programme would entail.

Those moaning about it didn't think it was funny but it had a fair few laughs based on how they were messing up as usual in what they said/did. As for the robber, it was completely unrealistic that he could keep on shooting and not reload once. If he did reload, I didn't notice him doing so.

I hope we do see more of Not Going Out with Lee/Lucy as a couple/family and keep Hugh Dennis and his annoying TV wife in it too.
Again, isn't that the tradition in 'action' films? People do not run out of ammunition unless it is wanted for dramatic effect. He was not in shot all the time anyway so could easily have reloaded.
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Old 28-12-2015, 18:11
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Kudos to Lee Mack for trying something different with the Christmas special and not have the typical Xmas episode. It was tenser than I thought it would be and I really enjoyed it. As others have said it, it wasn't amazing, but it wasn't bad either.
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Old 29-12-2015, 12:27
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Watched a repeat of the wedding episode over the weekend and that was proper funny throughout. Made me wish they'd stopped at that as it was obviously intended as the final episode with all the flashbacks of the people in the church to earlier episodes and even Tim making a cameo appearance as a very late best man.

The Christmas special was just so poor in comparison. Hope they make a better effort if doing any more.

Very much reminds me of Only Fools and Horses where the walking into the fake sunset at the end of the episode was meant to be the end of the show and they then continued with some very lacklustre specials.

I guess NGO will follow OFAH and have a lot of jokes about the child, with it being born at Christmas. Probably be referred to as Jesus like Rodney in OFAH thinking Damien was the devil, referring to The Omen movies.
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Old 29-12-2015, 14:36
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And the rest ....



Indeed, we really need an 'irony' smiley.
Hows about an I feel superior one as well?
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Old 16-12-2016, 18:42
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It's back in January. Details here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...16/notgoingout
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Old 16-12-2016, 21:52
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Not sure I agree with Shane Allen that NGO is quite in the same league as OFAH, Dad's Army and Allo Allo, but it can be quite amusing.
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Old 16-12-2016, 23:50
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Not sure I agree with Shane Allen that NGO is quite in the same league as OFAH, Dad's Army and Allo Allo, but it can be quite amusing.
To be fair he only said it was 'long running and much loved' as they were which I think is fairly incontrovertible. There's no comment on the comparative quality. Having said that it would certainly rank ahead of one of those in my personal opinion.
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Old 17-12-2016, 10:23
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That's odd. The press release seems to have been taken down or moved elsewhere.
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