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  • Actors: Craig Cash, Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston, Caroline Aherne
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Jan 2009
  • Run Time: 58 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001MK9ZL2
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,847 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The nation's favourite couch potatoes return for this one-off Christmas special. Events begin, as usual, in and around the Royle's comfortable living room. But quickly move on to the equally tasteful surroundings of Dave and Denise flat, as Denise attempts to cook Christmas dinner. Created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, THE ROYLE FAMILY's subtle humour and surprisingly poignant moments have seen it become a modern comedy classic.

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13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Bitterly Disappointing, 31 Dec 2008
By K. Benyon (North West of England) - See all my reviews
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My wife and I were really looking forward to watching the Royle Family on Christmas Day, as we have been fans from the very first episode. However we were very disappointed with this "Christmas Special",too many characters have been removed, parts of the story were not believable(turkey under sunbed/in the bath being defrosted). Not true to character eg Denise was always lazy but clever with it(had everyone else doing the work),it was just rubbish,not funny in the slightest.
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1.0 out of 5 stars I'm still in shock at how bad it was, 28 Dec 2008
By Pat (Liverpool, England) - See all my reviews
Make no mistake about it - this was bad. I have heard comment that it 'got bad' when the action moved to Denise and Dave's house. That is incorrect - it was dreadful from the first sight of Jim eating after eights.

Ricky Tomlinson just looked embarrassed to be there, especially later on with the extra cup-a-soup debacle, where he and Geoffrey Hughes seemed to be trying their best to make something from the panto script.

The whole thing was a completely OTT parody of itself and I watched it in (almost) open-mouthed disbelief. How they looked at the finished product and judged it to be finished, leaves me speechless.

I barely recognised the characters I've known over the years and the situations were so set up - like Twiggy inviting himself to dinner. I really did keep waiting for the real intelligent subtle humour to make itself known but no, that was obviously carried off by a Christmas fairy.

If you are a Royle Family fan you should definitely try to see this somewhere for free, if only to critique it, but DO NOT spend money on it!
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably Poor, 28 Dec 2008
By Mr. M. Williams "cantosis" (London, Uk) - See all my reviews
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I love thw Royle Family and thought the last xmas episode was really good in 2006 but the one on xmas day was really appalling, I was actually shocked how bad it was.

I thought I was watching a episode of Bottom from the 90s. The scenes with the Turkey well actually everything in Denise and Dave`s house just brought the show down.

You always knew that Denise and Dave were a little thick but this episode just made them look like a couple of nutters out of their nuthouse for xmas....come on this couple are supposed to be parants living as a family and the father does things like takes a bath with the turkey put it under a sunbed...the scenes with the saw and chainsaw was just so unfunny.

I am not sure how it could go so wrong. I notice Phil Mealey was one of the writing credits but after enjouing Sunshine and Early Doors which he co wrote with Cash I don`t think he can be blamed completely even though I don`t think he was involved with writing the old episodes...I could be wrong on that though.


I don`t know if it can recover from this but I hope they make another special just to erase this episode which was so bad it was unreal.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Royle feast of fun
Having read so many negative comments about this episode, we put off buying it for a while. What fools we were - it was wonderful, as were all the Royle episodes, and had us in... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Royle Classic - A BIG THUMBS UP!!! WATCH IT!
I also am truly shocked at the 'haters' of the 2008 Christmas episode. It was the best thing on TV at the time. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars sense of humour?
I do not understand why this has received so many poor ratings. I assume that the reviewers have not bought the dvd and instead watched the programme on tv. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. A. Roberts-clout

3.0 out of 5 stars so-so
when the bbc announced in nov 08 that the Royle family was returning once more for a xmas special i like many others cheered as most people thought "queen of sheeba" was the final... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Russell C. Witheyman

5.0 out of 5 stars Royle Family as good as ever
Frankly I am surprised that so many of the reviews for 'The New Sofa' are negative. For me it was one of the highlights of Christmas 2008 on television, and Aherne and Cash's... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mike99

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I love The Royle Family and have every series they've made - but this effort seems a little pointless. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Square eyes

1.0 out of 5 stars NO MORE PLEASE!!!!!!!!
Dear Aherne and Cash,

Please, dear lord, please stop making this garbage! Series 1,2 and 3 where fantastic but since then you have destroyed everything there was to... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. P. D. Horner

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!!
I Can't understand why so many people didn't like this Christmas Special. We all thought it was great in my family. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mandy Calow

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Why oh why oh why are there so many negative reviews? What do people want, blood? (probably true). Of course, some people just don't get the creative genius of the Royles. Read more
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