<P> The Royle Family is a British television sitcom produced by ITV Studios for the BBC , which ran for three series from 1998 -- 2000 , and specials from 2006 -- 12 . 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 ) . </P>
<P> The Royle Family is a British television sitcom produced by ITV Studios for the BBC , which ran for three series from 1998 -- 2000 , and specials from 2006 -- 12 . 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 ) . </P>
when did the royal family tv series start
when did the royal family tv series start
1998
1998