The Royle Family is a popular, BAFTA award-winning television sitcom produced by Granada Television for the BBC, which ran for three series between 1998 and 2000, with special episodes in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012. Two sketches for Children in Need (2008) and Comic Relief (2009) have also been aired.
A Christmas Special was originally commissioned for 2011 but Aherne & Cash failed to complete the script in time.
In an interview with The Sun newspaper in 2013, Tomlinson announced that there might be a Series 4 in the future.
A total of 25 episodes of The Royle Family have been broadcast.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, family and/or episodes:
“Love’s boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it’s useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“All is possible,
Who so list believe;
Trust therefore first, and after preve,
As men wed ladies by license and leave,
All is possible.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being “better,” and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)