Withdrawal From Public Life
Following an argument with Craig Cash, Aherne moved to Sydney, retreating from the press. She wrote Dossa and Joe, screened on BBC 2 in 2002. Although critics applauded it, the show did not attract viewers and did not return for a second series. Returning to Britain, she began work on another sitcom with Cash but pulled out, leaving Cash to write with Phil Mealey. Early Doors was a hit in 2003. It was commissioned for a second series, screened in August 2004.
Since Dossa and Joe, Aherne has avoided media attention. When The Fast Show was featured on the BBC One show Comedy Connections, Aherne was the only cast member not interviewed. In April 2006, the BBC said Aherne and Cash were developing a script for a one-off special of The Royle Family; the episode, entitled The Royle Family: The Queen of Sheba, was broadcast on 29 October 2006, to an audience of 7.8 million. Aherne has since made three appearances on TV. On 14 October 2008 she was in the BBC comedy drama Sunshine as a barmaid. It was written by Cash and Phil Mealey. She appeared in The Royle Family, The New Sofa on Christmas Day 2008. In 2009, she appeared in a Royle Family special for Comic Relief as well as another Christmas Day special of The Royle Family entitled The Golden Eggcup. She co-wrote the ITV1 comedy-drama The Fattest Man in Britain, which aired in December 2009.
In November 2010, Aherne made another appearance, in the special The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa shown on Gold, featuring clips of The Royle Family and interviews with Aherne, Cash and the cast which was followed by another Christmas Day special, Joe's Cracker. She narrated a BBC1 documentary entitled Pound Shop Wars that was broadcast in November 2012.
Aherne is currently writing a sitcom to be aired on ITV called The Security Men alongside Jeff Pope with whom she collaborated to write The Fattest Man in Britain. The new four-part series will star Paddy McGuinness, Brendan O'Carroll, Dean Andrews, Bobby Ball and Peter Wright.
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