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.
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