Royle celebration

To mark 25 years of The Royle Family, Craig Cash shares his memories of the beloved sitcom

- EMMA BULLIMORE, REBECCA FLETCHER, NICK CANNON, RICHARD MCCLURE, VICTORIA WILSON

NEW FACTUAL
The Royle Family: Down the Back of the Sofa
Thursday, 9pm, Gold

Back in 1998, long before Gogglebox was even dreamt of, Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash gave us a genre-redefining sitcom about a family chatting in front of the telly. Radically different from any comedy that had come before, The Royle Family instantly found a loyal audience and became one of Britain’s most-beloved sitcoms.