The Royal - update

The Royal.....hey! what's up with that? I have more people bugging me about The Royal. Is it that good?

It's always nice to see Wendy Craig get work and I enjoyed Robert Daws in Roger Roger, but I've never watched The Royal except to check files etc. I'll say this, for something that is supposed to take place in 1969, they're all over the place with that. It's like 1969 +/- 5 years. They could get away with that if the setting was in more recent times, but not back then. We went through a lot of changes in a very short period of time and it's fairly simple to watch a TV program, a film, see a photo or hear a song and be able to place it in a specific year. Well, at least if you lived through those years it is. Not that Hollywood ever got it right either. (lol)  

Anyways, as most of you know, ITV is all screwed up (like the BBC isn't?) and The Royal has been in limbo for about a year and now it looks like it's dead in the water. (Unless one of you out there knows different.)

They produced an 8th series of the program, and about a year ago showed the first 3 episodes and then pulled the plug. The remaining 9 episodes found their way onto Danish TV last autumn and then Canadian TV last winter. Unfortunately nobody in those countries seem to have recorded Episodes 81-84, so Disc 8 is not available at this time unless you want it with the missing 4 eps.

The good news is, ITV has finally decided to start broadcasting Series 8 and those episodes are slated to be shown in the UK in October. We'll see.

The quality of the first 13 files isn't that great (despite their large size), but I've never been able to track down better ones. 

The Royal was a spinoff of the longrunning Heartbeat (373 episodes since 1992) which has met a fate similar to The Royal. The final series was broadcast in Sweden last year and has just now started to be shown in the UK, so I'll be able to get files of the last 9 episodes without the Swedish subtitles.....I hope. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal