Not Going Out - Season 1 (2006)

Unambitious,easy-going Lee shares a flat with his more go-getting Californian landlady Kate,who suggests that ,as an outlet for his skills,he joins a class teaching people to become clowns. In the event she ends up attending it herself though with little success. Lee meanwhile dates a serious authoress Lucy,who is a client of Kate's publishing firm and Tim,Lee's dippy best friend uses Lee's absence to try and get back with ex-girlfriend Kate - but with even less success.

Tim's nonagenarian grandmother dies and when Lee omits to tell Kate she accuses him of suppressing his emotions. As a result he goes to see a female therapist who discloses that the root of his emotional problem is his latent feeling for Kate. However he holds back as, at the funeral Kate comforts Tim,who uses the opportunity,again unsuccessfully,to get back with her.

Kate's Australian friend Ruth is coming to stay and Kate is envious because she has always seen her as far more successful than herself. Since she has omitted to tell Ruth that she and Tim have split up and does not want to appear a failure at relationships she persuades Lee to pretend to be Tim - but things get rather complicated when they have to share a bed and the real Tim is far from happy.