Not Going Out returns to BBC One this Christmas with a trip to the Panto. Lee Mack’s multi award-winning hit show, and longest running sitcom on air, will return this December.

It is Christmas and Lee (Lee Mack) is not happy that Lucy (Sally Bretton) had booked tickets to the Pantomime. Especially given that the star of the show is Lucy’s teenage crush, Jason Donovan.

Produced by Avalon Not Going Out is directed by Nick Wood and produced by Jamie Rix and was commissioned by BBC Comedy. The Executive Producers are Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, Lee Mack and Jon Thoday. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Gregor Sharp.

Transmission date to be revealed. Follow @brucedes for announcement of the transmission date. 

Ghosts

The critically acclaimed and much-loved sitcom Ghosts will be back for a special Christmas episode this December.

In the run up to the festive season, Kitty becomes convinced that Santa has made an early stop at Button House when Mike and Alison discover a man living in a tent on their grounds. The ghosts' advice on how to deal with him leaves much to be desired, but eventually Mike and Alison learn that they have more to offer this Christmas than they realised.

Written and created by Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond. The Christmas episode also guest stars Jennifer Saunders.

Ghosts, a 1x30’ is a Monumental Television production in association with Them There for the BBC. The Christmas special is produced by Matthew Mulot and directed by Nick Collett and the creators serve as Executive Producers alongside Monumental's Alison Carpenter, Debra Hayward and Alison Owen.