Regular visiting characters – Geoffrey Hughes’s tea leaf Twiggy and Jessica Hynes’s frumpy-but-dense neighbour Cheryl – feel like family members.

The Royle Family had to be smart to work - no gimmicks, relying instead on well-placed silences, comic timing and facial expressions - and it is very clever indeed.

Opinionated, humorous, musical and lazy - Jim Royle was the family's cantankerous but loveable patriarch, famed for the catchphrase, 'my arse'.

We took much-loved sitcom The Royle Family to our hearts back in the late 90s - but what happened to the cast after the show ended? Read below to find out ...

Longtime family friend to the Royle family, Twiggy, played by Geoffrey Hughes, often has rip-off materials or stolen goods to sell on. He often ends up in prison and last appeared in the 2008 ...

`The Royle Family' follows the everyday life of the average working-class Royles in Manchester. Jim is the patriarch, a rather lofty title for someone who watches a lot of television, and does as ...

On the surface, The Royle Family appeared to be humdrum and low on incident - but such ordinary appearances belie the fact that it was a groundbreaking work of exceptional comedy invention.

Longtime family friend to the Royle family, Twiggy, played by Geoffrey Hughes, often has rip-off materials or stolen goods to sell on. He often ends up in prison and last appeared in the 2008 ...

The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson said he still gets his iconic catchphrase 'my a***' shouted at him 50 times a day. It's been almost a decade since he last played loveable Jim Royle on the ...

The Royle Family, the classic sitcom centred round the a TV-loving family, is 25 years old this year - so we look back at the hit show that made household names of its stars ...

Twiggy and Jim are redecorating the dining room for the Christening, but because Jim is so tight they don't have a steamer. The pair, and later Dave, use kitchen utensils to remove the wallpaper ...

Appearing in more than 11 movies, music videos, and talk shows, the world-famous water-skiing squirrel made a stop at the Mall of America in Bloomington on Friday.