Overview

• Season 14 is set to air on June 13 on BBC One, introducing a seven-year time jump that places Lee and Lucy as empty nesters.
• Each episode will play out in real time for the first time as a consistent format to heighten audience engagement.
• Co-star Sally Bretton underwent emergency appendix surgery during filming and has since recovered, enabling production to continue.
• The BBC has confirmed a 15th season to coincide with the sitcom’s 20th anniversary, making it Britain’s second-longest running studio comedy with over 100 episodes.
• Lee Mack warned that risk-averse commissioners and writers unfamiliar with live studio sitcoms could endanger the genre’s future while crediting his half-diagnosed ADHD with driving his joke writing.