Episode 1 Christmas with the Royle Family The Queen of Sheba This video can not be played The opening scene of the pilot episode of The Royle Family Although TV bosses were not convinced about the ...

The BBC’s Bafta-winning comedy The Royle Family will return for a Christmas special, its co-writer has revealed. Craig Cash has said he will hook up with fellow scribe Caroline Aherne to pen the ...

The late Liz Smith didn’t get into acting until the age of 49, when she was spotted selling Christmas toys at Hamleys. She took on the role of matriarch Norma (“Nana”) in The Royle Family ...

7. Christmas with the Royle Family - It's Christmas Day at the Royle Family household.The family sit around the front room watching telly. Denise is heavily pregnant. Dave takes Nana home and ...

The Royle Family fans were left in floods of tears during the 2006 Christmas special, The Queen of Sheba, when character Norma 'Nana' Speakman, played by the late actress Liz Smith, died.

Ricky Tomlinson is hoping for a Royle Family Christmas special. And he says he will try to persuade creator Caroline Aherne to return to the screen, even though she vowed not to because of the effect ...

Sue Johnston has only recently been able to bring herself to watch beloved sitcom The Royle Family as she has been ... died aged 95 on Christmas Eve in 2016. Peter Martin, who starred as drowsy ...

The pair went on to share stories of their time working together on The Royle Family and Brookside ... died aged 95 on Christmas Eve in 2016. Peter Martin, who starred as drowsy neighbour Joe ...

Keighley girls take to the stage next week with a member of the Royle Family. That's Royle, not royal, for Heather Littler and Georgina Fahy Butterfield are performing in the Halifax pantomime.

The Royle Family has been a British ... it to “the ‘Real’ Royal Family” and recording an exclusive Slade cover version for one of the Christmas specials. It also turned out that Craig ...

25 years after it first aired, The Royle Family is a landmark of popular working-class culture ... having audiences become tired of their tropes and characters. The greatest Christmas TV moment of all ...