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The Royle Family is a British sitcom produced by Granada Television for the BBC, which ran for three series from 1998 to 2000, and specials from 2006 to 2012. [2] [3] It centres on the lives of a television-fixated Manchester family, the Royles, comprising family patriarch Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson), his wife Barbara (Sue Johnston), their daughter Denise (Caroline Aherne), their son Antony ...
Caroline Mary Aherne [1] (24 December 1963 – 2 July 2016) was an English actress, comedian, writer and director. She was best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton, in various roles in The Fast Show, and as Denise in The Royle Family (1998–2012), a series which she co-wrote.
The cast were beset by a number of deaths in recent years, ... The pair went on to share stories of their time working together on The Royle Family and Brookside. Johnston sang and danced to the ...
Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston remembered their co-star and friend Caroline Aherne, four years on from her sad passing at the age of 52.
Betty Smith (11 December 1921 – 24 December 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, [2] was an English actress known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–1979), the sisters Bette and Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–1999), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–1996) and Norma ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2006).
But The Royle Family is just one part of the rich legacy explored in Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy, which airs seven years after Aherne died of cancer aged 52. A genius (with an IQ of 176 ...
Geoffrey William Hughes DL (2 February 1944 – 27 July 2012) was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin man Eddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street from 1974 to 1983, making a return to the show in 1987.
Craig Cash (born 11 September 1960) [1] is an English comedian, actor, voice actor, director and BAFTA award-winning writer and producer. His best known works are in the television shows The Royle Family, The Fast Show, The Mrs Merton Show, Early Doors, Sunshine and most recently The Café, Rovers and After Hours.