finally escaped the confines of the house - but to hospital, where Nana finally passes away. Nothing on television had been quite like The Royle Family It eschewed a laughter track and the ...

Almost nothing happens in “The Royle Family.” Over the course of 25 episodes, we occasionally pop into two other rooms of the central family’s house in Manchester, England — the dinner ...

or are we going to see the family rituals played out until somebody dies?” The sitcom is set largely in the Royle’s front room, in their small Manchester council house. The programmes on their ...