Royle Family actors Ralf Little and Craig Cash collaborate for a gentle sitcom set in a seaside café in Weston-super-Mare. Cash directs a script by Little and actress Michelle Terry in a story revolving around three generations who run a struggling café: Gran (June Watson), divorcee Carol (Ellie Haddington) and daughter Sarah (Terry). The characters are nicely observed - in particular some of the café regulars such as Richard (Little), a care-home assistant and Sarah's ex, and Keiran (Kevin Trainor), who works as a "living statue" - but The Cafe's sedate pace does make it a bit dull.

Ralf Little: 'The Cafe's about real people'

Royle Family favourite Ralf Little writes and stars in Sky1's new comedy The Cafe...

Yes, it's yet another brand new comedy from Sky! The Cafe's been written by Ralf Little - you know, him off The Royle Family and Two Pints of Lager. But what's it about? Well, the clue's kind of in the title - we meet all the different people coming to a cafe in Weston-Super-Mare. Sarah (Michelle Terry) wants to be a writer, Little's character Richard is her former childhood sweetheart, and John (Daniel Ings) is Richard's old love rival. Obviously, there are loads of other characters as well - it might be worth checking out this double bill to see if you want to stick around.

The Cafe: Hoping for a big splash

Co-writers Ralf Little and Michelle Terry talk about their new Sky1 offering, The Cafe, a comic take on life in a typical British seaside resort, in which they both play leading roles.

Why Ralf Little is just write for new sitcom

Ralf Little wrote and stars in new sitcom The Café, which launches on Sky1 next week. And he's called on a Royle Family connection to help make it a hit.

Ralf Little opens The Cafe

He played poor put-upon Antony in The Royle Family. Now Ralf Little is striking out on his own. He talks to Patrick Barkham about The Cafe, the new sitcom he has written - despite being 'pathologically lazy'.

The Cafe interviews

The Cafe is a new comedy series on Sky1, written by and starring Ralf Little as Richard, and Michelle Terry as Sarah. The six-part series is directed by Craig Cash...

With king of grouches Victor Meldrew still indelibly etched on British psyches, it's nigh on impossible to imagine Richard Wilson playing anything other than a discontented grump. Here he stars as Frank Ross, an ex-Latin teacher turned frustrated cabbie. In addition to his career nose-dive, Frank is forced to spend more time than he'd like with his cab controller ex-wife Barbara (Julia Deakin) along with the man she left him for- the owner of the cab firm that employs them both. On top of this, he also has his hopeless son Sean (Ralf Little) to contend with. Will Frank ever escape the gloom of his cab and return to the classics? A Russian oligarch, a box of human remains and a broken coffee machine all provide plenty of laughs - Wilson fans won't be disappointed.

On the very day the engagement and imminent marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton has been announced, it's only right we celebrate the country's first family. In this special, members of the Royle family share their memories of working on the show, how it came to be, and talk about some of the behind-the-scenes shenanigans. You get the impression that the cast are as close in real life as they are in the show, and Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston, Liz Smith and Ralf Little share their recollections of a comedy that became a modern classic.