Review of The Royle Family

This programme was SO BORING I eventually had to take a break and sit outside and watch the grass growing to wake me up. The father and the son are the only members of the cast that might be human...the others are as exciting as backdrop. The daughter smokes continuously the boyfriend chats pointlessly about his job...the mother prattles about apologizing for someone's behavior...the neighbour lady sits there between her lines like a painting....I guess she doesn't realize the cameras are still rolling. All in all they're a very dull family and while I DO appreciate a bit of reality TV....this is WAY less exciting than MY family. Perhaps life in UK is so depressingly drab, rainy and dreary that these people seem exciting......in Canada I'd rather watch the dog chewing a bone than an episode of this stuff. Clearly by the high score it garnered it is well loved in the UK.....I only wish it had stayed there....it didn't travel well across the pond.