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''The Royle Family'' is a British television sitcom produced by Granada Productions for the BBC, which ran for three series from 1998 to 2000, and specials from 2006 to 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = BBC Press Office )〕〔('Royle Family' won't return for Christmas special in 2013 - TV News - Digital Spy )〕 It centres on the lives of a scruffy television-fixated Manchester family, the Royles, comprising family patriarch Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson), his wife Barbara (Sue Johnston), their daughter Denise (Caroline Aherne), their son Antony (Ralf Little) and Denise's fiance (later husband) David (Craig Cash). The series features simple production values and a stereotypical portrayal of low income family life at the turn of the millennium. It therefore has something in common with kitchen sink drama. The scripts contain often banal conversations. Almost all of the episodes take place in the Royles' home; most centre on the telly-centric living room. Aherne and Cash co-wrote every episode, along with Henry Normal (series one), Carmel Morgan (series two), and Phil Mealey (five Christmas specials). In a list of the 100 greatest British television programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted on by industry professionals, ''The Royle Family'' was placed 31st in a 2004 poll to find Britain's best sitcom, ''The Royle Family'' was placed 19th out of 100 nominations. The series has also won several BAFTA awards. == Series == Most episodes appear to take place in real time and all action takes place within the Royles' council house home. (The passage of time as indicated by the changing programmes on the Royles' TV sometimes suggests that the action has been compressed.) Unlike most UK sitcoms of the time, the show was filmed in 16 mm film using the single camera production style, instead of the multiple-camera production style, and was not filmed with a live audience or laugh track. The one-off specials take a more traditional sitcom structure, though many scenes still run longer than standard in line with the 'real time' nature of the original series. The 2006 special episode "The Queen Of Sheba" was partly set in a hospital. Its narrative moves forward in time in a more typical manner. 2008's Christmas special, "The New Sofa", is set over two days. In it the characters spend Christmas Eve at the Royle household in the traditional manner (in front of the television), followed by Christmas Day at Dave and Denise's. Much of the 2009 Christmas special takes place in a caravan at a holiday park. It also features intermediate scenes of Dave driving Twiggy's car there. All of 2010 and 2012's Christmas special takes place at the Royles' house. Aherne and Cash currently share narration duties on the Channel 4 programme ''Gogglebox'', in which members of the public watch and comment on the weeks' television - a similar premise, albeit factual, to ''The Royle Family''. The show's theme song is "Half the World Away" by Oasis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Royle Family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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