query: instance_of sunshine 
supports: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation, and is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total number is 35,402. Craig Cash (born 11 September 1960) is an English comedian, actor, director and BAFTA award-winning writer and producer. His best known work is in the television shows "The Royle Family", "The Fast Show", "The Mrs Merton Show", "Early Doors", "Sunshine" and most recently "The Cafe", "Rovers" and "After Hours". Caroline Mary Aherne (24 December 1963  2 July 2016) was an English comedian and BAFTA-winning writer and actress, best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host "Mrs Merton", various roles in the "The Fast Show", and as the lead role in the "The Royle Family", which she co-wrote. She was also known for narrating the Channel 4 reality television series "Gogglebox", a role she held from its inception in 2013 until she became too ill in April 2016. A situation comedy, or sitcom, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one9 of its dominant narrative forms. This form can also include mockumentaries. Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey. The town is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name. ITV Studios is a television production company owned by the British television broadcaster ITV plc. It is primarily based in Greater Manchester and London in the United Kingdom. It was formerly ITV Productions, and originally Granada Productions (the in-house production arm of Granada Television). Sue Johnston OBE (born Susan Wright; born 7 December 1943) is an English actress known for playing Sheila Grant in the Channel 4 soap opera "Brookside" (19821990), Barbara Royle in the BBC comedy "The Royle Family" (19982012), Grace Foley in the BBC drama "Waking the Dead" (20002011), Gloria Price in the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" (20122014) and Miss Denker in the ITV drama "Downton Abbey" (20142015). She won the 2000 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress and was nominated for the 2000 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance for "The Royle Family". Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson (born 26 September 1939) is an English actor, comedian, author, and political activist. He is best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in "Brookside", DCI Charlie Wise in "Cracker", and Jim Royle in "The Royle Family". Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 514,414 . It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.55 million. Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council. Early Doors is a BBC sitcom written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey who also appear in the series playing best friends Joe and Duffy. The setting is The Grapes, a small public house in Stockport where daily life revolves around the issues of love, loneliness and blocked urinals. Phil Mealey is a British actor and writer. Biography. Mealey co-wrote and associate-produced the BBC sitcom "Early Doors" with Craig Cash. Mealey also acted in the series, playing the character Duffy. Cash and Mealey won two North West Comedy Awards in 2005 for the writing and acting on the series. The Royle Family was a British television sitcom produced by ITV Studios for the BBC, which ran for three series from 1998 to 2000, and specials from 2006 to 2012. 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 fiancé (later husband) David (Craig Cash). The Mrs Merton Show was a mock talk show starring Caroline Aherne as the elderly host Mrs Merton. Ralf Alastair John Little (born 8 February 1980) is an English actor, writer and semi-professional footballer, working mainly in television comedy. He has played Antony Royle in "The Royle Family" and Jonny Keogh in the first six series of "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps". Sunshine is a three - part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers of The Royle Family and Early Doors . These co-writers , Craig Cash and Phil Mealey , also appear in the series .
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answer: television series