The Royle Family
- TV Series
- 1998–2012
- 45m
A British sitcom about the everyday life of a working-class family in Northwest England: watching telly, smoking, drinking, and bickering.A British sitcom about the everyday life of a working-class family in Northwest England: watching telly, smoking, drinking, and bickering.A British sitcom about the everyday life of a working-class family in Northwest England: watching telly, smoking, drinking, and bickering.
- Won 4 BAFTA Awards
- 23 wins & 14 nominations total
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- TriviaThe BBC wanted and expected the series to be made in the usual style of a traditional television sitcom (ie. recorded live in front of a studio audience on video cameras). However, Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash insisted it had to be made in their preferred style: on a closed set and shot in an observational/documentary style, on a single 16mm film camera.
- GoofsSeries 1 is set in early summer, leading up to Dave and Denise's wedding, however a lot of the television they are seen and heard watching was originally broadcast in winter.
- Quotes
Denise Royle: Dad! Your flies are undone!
Jim Royle: Ah, the cage might be open, but the beast is asleep.
Barbara Royle: Beast, my arse!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Goodbye 2000 (2000)
- SoundtracksHalf The World Away
Written by Noel Gallagher
Performed by Oasis
Track 3 of the "Whatever" single release
Creation Records CRESCD195
Featured review
An excellent cast given a superb script creates a minor comedy gem. Set in the downtrodden post-industrial north of England, the action rarely strays outside the living room of the titular wisecracking family, as tightwad patriarch Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson) holds court, kept in check by long-suffering wife Barbara (Sue Johnston, who had previously played Tomlinson's wife in the soap Brookside) and ordering around young son Antony (the remarkably assured debutant Ralf Little). The storyline of the first series revolves around the impending marriage of daughter Denise (Caroline Aherne) to her boyfriend Dave (Craig Cash), but the show is more about one-liners and character interplay than plotline; writers Aherne, Cash and Henry Normal keep the gags coming relentlessly as the action meanders in real time. A second series is in the works.
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- Also known as
- Familjen Royle
- Filming locations
- Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK(studio location and setting)
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