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.

Naked cats!!!!????

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.

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.

Wonder if there will be a new series next year? I'm hoping there is.

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.

My thoughts precisely.

You surely jest.

Reminds me of the time I asked the price of something in the 99p shop..........

Just because we all laugh at different things?????

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.

Think about it.


I can watch episodes of NGO many times over, but this is one that I won't be watching again.

Rubbish.

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?

Just have a think of what Christmas commemorates..

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!

Argos?

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!

I think quite a few people entirely missed the ironic intentions of this

And the rest ....


Indeed, we really need an 'irony' smiley.

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.

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.

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.

Hows about an I feel superior one as well?

It's back in January. Details here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...16/notgoingout

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.

That's odd. The press release seems to have been taken down or moved elsewhere.