Product Details

• Actors: Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston, Caroline Aherne, Ralf Little, Craig Cash
• Directors: Mark Mylod
• Writers: Ricky Tomlinson, Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Henry Normal
• Producers: Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Andy Harries
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Worldwide
• DVD Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Run Time: 170 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JBWWOW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,149 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Royle Family - The Complete First Season" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent series, poor quality DVD, January 27, 2007

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M. A. Martin (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Royle Family - The Complete First Season (DVD)

I've een waiting for this show to become available in the US for a long time (it aired once on BBCAmerica). It's a great show with kind, realistic (i.e., not slapstick) humor about a lower-class family in England. It was very popular in the UK. I was so desperate for it that I even pre-ordered. That's how good the show is.

But I'm sorry to say I was sorely disappointed with the quality of the DVD transfer. First, it's not widescreen (letterbox). This is a recent show, so I'm fairly certain it was shot in the wider aspect ratio that's the UK adopted much earlier than the US. (I could be wrong about this. There's no easy way to tell.)

Second, the quality of the image is surprisingly bad. There's far too much noise to be considered DVD quality. Happily, it isn't compression artifacts, but it still is a very noisy image -- lots of graininess in the darker areas. I shudder to think what this DVD would look like on a hi-def television. On my old-school TV it's noticably bad. The bad image quality brings it down to 4 stars.

Still, this is the only way to legitimately get this series in the US. I was really looking forward to the second and third seasons, but I won't buy them unless the picture quality is better. There's simply no excuse for this poor quality.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This reminds me of home, January 14, 2007

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J. Raitt (Iowa,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Royle Family - The Complete First Season (DVD)

Oh my, this sit com is so funny. It reminds me so much of my childhood it's scary. We have been waiting and waiting for this to come out over here in the US. It really is so funny.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic British Comedy, March 29, 2008

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I. DAY "Daymouth" (East Coast, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Royle Family - The Complete First Season (DVD)

A classic BAFTA award winning British comedy that may not be for everyone's taste, especially if toilet humour is not for you, but what makes this satire show so funny is how close it is to the reality of many of the working class of England.

Performances of Craig Cash (Dave Best) & Ricky Tomlinson (Jim Royle) are pure genius.