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On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television--a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny. It's Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series).
Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sit-coms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis--who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World"--this programme just keeps getting better.
But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family's. Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless. Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what it's come to?" Not quite; as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson
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The complete third season of the ever-popular sitcom about a lower class Liverpudlian family, for whom the television set in the living room remains its natural gathering point. This season sees the addition of Denise and Dave's first child, Jim Keanu Ronan Royle, which brings its share of trials and tribulations to the semi-inert world of now-grandparents Jim (Ricky Tomlinson) and Barbara (Sue Johnston).
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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The royal family series three is a complete masterpeice, anyone who tells you they cannot identify with the programme is lying! We've all sat in front of the TV shouting answers at contestants on game shows only to find out we're wrong. This show just reminds us how sad we are for doing it!
The third series of the Royal family has some classic moments such as Denise and Dave forgetting baby David, Anthony getting Emma pregnant, and Emma's parents coming to tea whilst the Royals admire Emma's mums breast implants and remind her how lucky she is to have a Dyson!! The Royal Family series 3 is by far the best comedy video around this christmas!!!
The third series of the Royal family has some classic moments such as Denise and Dave forgetting baby David, Anthony getting Emma pregnant, and Emma's parents coming to tea whilst the Royals admire Emma's mums breast implants and remind her how lucky she is to have a Dyson!! The Royal Family series 3 is by far the best comedy video around this christmas!!!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Beautifully observed and executed comedy/drama - this is what soap operas would be like if they had the wit of writers Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, and the subtlety in acting of the whole cast. This is comedy which isn't afraid of involving the viewer in the family's stretches of inertia and banality: one lovely sequence has the camera track from Club-eating Barbara to Penguin-munching Dave as an 'mmmm!' is passed from Barb to our Denise to Dave. The dialogue doesn't attempt to sound profound, but manages depth, hilarity, sadness, and despair nevertheless. I'm particularly fond of the Christmas special to series 3, where the women admire Valerie's breast implants (Denise: "I wanted to have a breast reduction, but Dave wouldn't let me." Barbara: "Oh, Denise. He does work long hours. Be fair." Dave: [Nods]) and Jim Royle valiantly humours the repulsive Roger (Roger: (talking about a prostitute who specialises in Masons) "She lets me do things you wouldn't do to a farm animal." Dave: "I'm making baby David a farmyard.") Somehow, despite the laziness, slovenliness, lack of ambition, and stupidity, the Royles manage to be loveable.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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What more can i say?.
Again im not disapointed with the royels and the 3rd series of their family saga.
Jim is bloody great in his attitude on life and the way anthony makes the tea and makes the whole family bacon sandwiches has me roaring with laughter ..
The royels are definatley my class of people i recomend this series specialy cos granada and BBC have included the christmas special which many series on DVD have removed and put them on seperate discs.
Classic and very real life something i will watch over and over again .
My friends at Amazon UK have once again provided the best service to the USA which is why i keep ordering and ordering.
So i give Amazon 10 stars out of five for their promt and fantastic service.
I will be hunting around for the royels 1st series which seems to have been deleted also im soon going to be ordering the last trilogy of only fools and horses of coarse from Amazon.
Again im not disapointed with the royels and the 3rd series of their family saga.
Jim is bloody great in his attitude on life and the way anthony makes the tea and makes the whole family bacon sandwiches has me roaring with laughter ..
The royels are definatley my class of people i recomend this series specialy cos granada and BBC have included the christmas special which many series on DVD have removed and put them on seperate discs.
Classic and very real life something i will watch over and over again .
My friends at Amazon UK have once again provided the best service to the USA which is why i keep ordering and ordering.
So i give Amazon 10 stars out of five for their promt and fantastic service.
I will be hunting around for the royels 1st series which seems to have been deleted also im soon going to be ordering the last trilogy of only fools and horses of coarse from Amazon.
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A must for "Royle" fans
This dvd is a "must" for any Royle fans. My husband had series 1 and 2 and I bought 3 to complete his series collection. This has brought us a lot of laughter. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sharati Larki
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ROYLE
HUBBY BIG FAN OF THIS SHOW AND COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN, A LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO THE END
Published on 24 Dec 2010 by DEE DEE
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The Royle Family
This is an English sitcom DVD of a somewhat different nature to the other sitcom episodes I have seen, but if you accept the sometimes weird text then it has episodes I find funny. Read more
Published on 26 July 2009 by Aage W. Vasili Hempel
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Biting social commentary but with warmth and
The ironically-titled Royle Family is, as the theme music says, 'half a world away' from the contrived nonsense of most sitcoms. Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2004 by "stemmo29"
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A Real Classic
I love this show. The first time I saw this I was 14 and I was shocked at how good this show was. I live in America and the shows we have here are awful! Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2003 by Jonathan Palumbo
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The series just keeps getting better
It cannot be easy to write and produce a comedy series that keeps getting better and better. But the authors of The Royle Family have managed just that. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2003 by Aaron Gatt Floridia
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great series
this has got to be the best tv series ever made, it is about a family called the royles here is there names and a description of them :
Jim Royle is a loudmouthed lazy... Read more
Jim Royle is a loudmouthed lazy... Read more
Published on 19 May 2003 by joshua thistlethwaite
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The best comedy series of all time.
The funniest series of all time is at last available to buy on video and DVD. The hugely talented Caroline Aherne provides a terrific comedy series focusing on a Northern family. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2001
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