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"The future of BBC comedy Outnumbered is yet to be decided, Digital Spy has learned. Star Tyger Drew-Honey previously suggested to DS that the show&amp;#039;s fifth series would be its last. However, a representative for the show has stated: &amp;quot;Hat Trick are filming an Outnumbered Christmas special in November and series 5 later next year,&amp;quot; adding that &amp;quot;no decision&amp;quot; has been made on the show&amp;#039;s future beyond that.  It was announced in June that the popular BBC family comedy would return for a Christmas special and a new series in 2013. Drew-Honey originally told Digital Spy: &amp;quot;This series is the last series. Never say never, but the directors and writers have said that they don&amp;#039;t want to do another. Some [shows] do go on too long and some of them are just making [more] series for the sake of it.&amp;quot;   The actor - who plays eldest child Jake - added that the gap between Outnumbered&amp;#039;s fourth series in 2011 and the show&amp;#039;s final 2013 run will allow &amp;quot;more scope for storylines&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Outnumbered hasn&amp;#039;t been on in ages now... and series five isn&amp;#039;t going to be out till next May,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;ve purposely made a point of holding it off - with the ages that Dan [Roche, who plays Ben] and Ramona [Marquez, who plays Karen] are now, they can take advantage of the fact that from the last time they were seen on TV to now, they&amp;#039;ve changed so much. &amp;quot;If it was just six months later, it&amp;#039;s all the same kinds of storylines. In series one, I was considered &amp;#039;the old one&amp;#039;, getting my first girlfriend, now Ben might be having a girlfriend. So they wanted to allow it enough time, so they&amp;#039;d have more scope for storylines.&amp;quot; Tyger Drew-Honey will next be seen in BBC Three comedy Cuckoo opposite Greg Davies, Helen Baxendale and Andy Samberg. The series is expected to premiere later this month. &amp;gt; Outnumbered Claire Skinner to star in ITV&amp;#039;s Homefront &amp;gt; Outnumbered Tyger Drew-Honey, Fatima Whitbread join &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s Dance&amp;#039; Watch a clip from the fourth series of Outnumbered below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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