Caroline Aherne's Royle Family co-star Craig Cash was the presiding spirit of this memorial profile - BBC Often a new sitcom will try too hard to win you over. There’s too much exposition, the ...

“Sitcom my arse!” That’s probably what Jim Royle would have bellowed at the television if he’d seen his own comedy series. As concepts go, it’s mundane: drinking tea, smoking ciggies, and nattering in ...

LONDON (AP) — Caroline Aherne, a sharp-witted writer and star of the bittersweet working-class comedy “The Royle Family,” has died from cancer at 52, her publicist announced Saturday. Aherne was best ...

Sue Johnston has honoured her former Royle Family co-star Caroline Aherne with a heartfelt social media post on Christmas Eve ...

Work is under way on a film about the life of Caroline Aherne. Titled Half The World Away – in honour of the Oasis song that served as The Royle Family’s theme tune – the biopic has already been ...

Caroline Aherne was a BAFTA winning comic writer and actress best known for her comic character Mrs Merton and for her sitcom The Royle Family. In the mid '90s she went by the name Caroline Hook, ...

The one-off return of comedy The Royle Family managed an impressive 7.8 million viewers last night, attracting the biggest audience for a comedy on UK TV this year. Written by Caroline Aherne, Craig ...

I always think too much happens in sitcoms, because people are funny, aren’t they?” If you were to try to sum up Caroline Aherne’s comedy credo, you’d struggle to do better than this soundbite from ...

Noel Gallagher paid tribute to his friend Caroline Aherne during a Nashville gig with his band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds on Saturday. Just a few hours after news of Aherne's death broke, ...

A Caroline Aherne film biopic is being made. He has also revealed that the biopic has the working title Half The World Away, a nod to the Oasis song that served as The Royle Family's theme tune. He ...