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In the News (Fri 29 Aug 08)

  
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Caroline has said that after leaving school she either wanted to be a secretary or study drama at college.
Caroline was later offered a pilot show, and a year later the BBC decided they'd take it and The Mrs Merton Show as we now know and love it was born.
Caroline and her regular co-writing team (Craig Cash and Henry Normal) believe that the funniest things are said by real people in real situations, and so they wanted to create a character based, realistic but funny, sitcom.
carolinescomedybase.tripod.com /carolineaherne.html   (657 words)

  
 Caroline Aherne Photos - Caroline Aherne News - Caroline Aherne Information
Caroline Aherne was born December 24, 1963 in Ealing London and was brought up in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England.
Aherne got her big break in comedy shows such as "Shooting Stars" and "The Fast Show", but she rose to fame as the character Mrs Merton on the mock talk show, "The Mrs Merton Show".
Caroline (on her character Denise Royle's fondness for a tipple is based on her own experiences.): She's always hungover and has ahad a load of drink because we wrote about our own lives and what happened in them.
www.tv.com /caroline-aherne/person/48893/summary.html   (471 words)

  
 BBC - Comedy - Caroline Aherne Profile
Caroline Aherne was born in London but grew up in Withenshawe in Manchester.
In 2001 Caroline Aherne announced her retirement from TV and emigrated to Australia.
Aherne herself has become something of a reclusive figure since then, but hit the headlines again in mid-2003, when it was reported that she had sold her autobiography in a £1 Million deal.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/profiles/caroline_aherne.shtml   (276 words)

  
 Caroline Aherne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caroline Aherne (born December 24, 1963 in Ealing, London) is an English actress and comedian.
Between the first and second series, Aherne and Cash created and starred in a Mrs Merton spin off, Mrs Merton and Malcolm, for which Aherne shared her comedy award.
In April 2006, the BBC announced that Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash were developing a script for a new, one-off special of The Royle Family to be broadcast in the UK later in the year, and the episode, entitled The Royle Family: The Queen of Sheba, was broadcast on October 29, 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caroline_Aherne   (611 words)

  
 TCM Breaking News - 2002/10/01: Caroline Aherne walks out on latest project
Aherne’s problems first came to a head in 1998 when she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
Aherne appeared on the road to recovery but in December 2000 she was back on the booze and embarrassingly heckled actor Nigel Hawthorne at a showbiz awards ceremony.
Aherne was said to be “downhearted” at the flop but determined to carry on writing and directing with Early Doors.
archives.tcm.ie /breakingnews/2002/10/01/story70640.asp   (516 words)

  
 Australian Television: Dossa and Joe: articles
Caroline Aherne, who played Denise Royle in the British series screened on ABC, fled to Australia this year to escape the pressures of fame and after suffering bouts of depression.
Aherne, creator of the award winning Royle Family comedy series, said she would never perform on television again after her battles with drink and her problematic relationships were exposed in the tabloid press.
It is the first work for British television from writer and actor Caroline Aherne, who vowed never to work in TV again when she left Britain to live in Australia a year ago.
www.australiantelevision.net /dossa/articles.html   (3460 words)

  
 Willy Russell - A letter from Caroline Aherne
We all know and admire Caroline Aherne today as the woman who blossomed in the Fast Show and had us all in fits of laughter with Mrs Merton and the Royle Family.
However, in the mid eighties, Caroline Aherne, then an unknown drama student, put pen to paper and wrote to Willy Russell.
In it he explained that he had been sorting through some old boxes of correspondence and had come across a fan letter from 13 years ago from a girl called Caroline Aherne, and he was wondering if it was me. He enclosed the said letter and instantly I recognised my own handwriting.
www.willyrussell.com /aherne.html   (531 words)

  
 BBC News | TV AND RADIO | Aherne goes down under for comedy
Caroline Aherne, creator of Mrs Merton and award-winning comedy The Royle Family, has written a new comedy series for the BBC.
Aherne has been in Australia since June, after intensive UK press attention on her reported drinking problems and a suspected suicide attempt.
Ms Root said: "Caroline is one of the most talented people in television and it is fantastic that we are able to continue her relationship with BBC Two."
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1550964.stm   (336 words)

  
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 Manchester Television Broadcasters and Film Actors of Greater Manchester including Caroline Aherne, Will Hay, Mike ...
TV Comedienne, creator of television's "Mrs Merton", and now well known for her part in Paul Whitehouse's "The Fast Show" and in "The Royle Family", Caroline Aherne was born on Christmas Eve in 1963 in Wythenshawe, the daughter of an Irish railway worker.
Caroline also has a cult following on the Manchester live comedy circuits, and worked for a time with Cash on a pirate radio station, where the character of Mrs Merton was developed.
After a few shows, both Caroline and Cash were sacked, but their show was picked up by BBC Radio 2, where the character was further developed, and paved the way for her better known television series later.
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 Caroline Ahern - Moviefone
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 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Aherne in awards heckling row
Royle Family writer Caroline Aherne was at the centre of controversy when she heckled Sir Nigel Hawthorne during the British Comedy Awards.
Aherne is known to have been fighting a drink problem.
She said she had never considered herself to be a comedy actress, and so the award was all the more amazing.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1074025.stm   (567 words)

  
 Peter Hook with Caroline Aherne and Tom Attencio 20/
Peter and his fiance Caroline Aherne were on their way to Las Vegas to be married and had stopped in LA for a pre-honeymoon vacation.
Caroline confides, much to our laugher, I think it’s because you spend the whole time snogging me in the middle of the film, that’s how boring it was.
I mean, Caroline's quite famous at home for what she does and again it's just the way some people can be rude about it and some fan be quite nice about it.
www.finetimedesign.com /neworder/article2.htm   (5441 words)

  
 The Sun Online - Bizarre: TV Caroline in love split
Brett is widely credited for helping Caroline finally kick her booze habit by giving her security and her first taste of happiness for some years.
But Brett, who was convinced that Caroline was a backpacker when he first met her, found it difficult to deal with the intensity of her fame in the UK.
Caroline began an affair with TV producer MATT BOWERS who then came to blows with Hook at a restaurant in 1996.
www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,4-2002210859,00.html   (439 words)

  
 screenonline: Aherne, Caroline (1963-) Biography
Born in London on December 24, 1963 to a railway labourer and a school dinner lady, Caroline Aherne emerged from radio and the comedy circuit in the 1990s to become one of Britain's foremost writers/performers with her acerbic chat show hostess Mrs Merton and the ground-breaking, reality-based, working-class situation comedy
Both she and her brother suffered from cancer of the retina, leaving her partially sighted in one eye.
Aherne played the bone idle daughter Denise and also directed the third series.
www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/458572/index.html   (420 words)

  
 The Royle Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The show was written by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, who also acted in it, along with poet and comedian Henry Normal, who left after the first series.
This episode was the last when Caroline Aherne decided to move to Australia to escape the press, after a bout of depression and a suicide attempt.
However, on April 7, 2006, the BBC announced that Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash were to write a script for a special which was broadcast in the UK on 29 October 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Royle_Family   (2498 words)

  
 Wedding rumours for Caroline Aherne
ROYLE Family star Caroline Aherne has put her troubles behind her and may marry her Australian boyfriend.
Caroline, 38, who moved to Australia to escape the pressures of fame, has fallen in love with Brett Whiford, a 35-year-old millionaire.
Caroline’s mother Maureen, from Roundthorn, Oldham, is delighted at her daughter’s return.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /news/s/14/14115_wedding_rumours_for_caroline_aherne.html   (377 words)

  
 The Sun Online - Bizarre: Aherne sweet home
Caroline says she will use it as her writing room — and that can only be good news for British telly.
A pal of Caroline’s told me last night: “She feels like she is ready to live in Britain again.
Caroline is feeling pretty excited about being back in the UK and she is brimming with new comedy ideas.”
www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,4-2002290975,00.html   (413 words)

  
 CAROLINE AHERNE QUITS LATEST TV COMEDY PROJECT
Royle Family star Caroline Aherne’s return to TV has been derailed after she quit her new TV show just days before shooting was about to begin.
The BBC released a statement acknowledging the actress is no longer working with her Royle Family co-star Craig Cash to develop scripts for the BBC2 series.
Though Caroline’s longtime writing partner is forging ahead with the programme, details of which have been kept tightly under wraps, an insider told a British newspaper that the future of the project might now be in question.
www.hellomagazine.com /2002/10/01/aherne   (334 words)

  
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TV's Caroline Aherne splits from her millionaire boyfriend
TV funnygirl Caroline Aherne has split from her Australian lover.
Sources close to the couple claimed that they had planned to marry later this year, but Whitford, who moved from Australia to live with the Royle Family star, found it increasingly difficult to deal with Aherne's fame.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk /Daily_Gossip/inner.aspx?SID=6058   (356 words)

  
 Dossa and Joe - Shiny Shelf
I didn't catch the first episode of Caroline Aherne's new project last week - a comedy-drama about an Australian couple struggling to adapt to retirement - because I was watching Teachers.
Now, it is about the most ordinary people you could imagine and it is very low-key; the visual style is also very similar (Aherne directs as well as writes, but doesn't appear).
However, one of the trademarks of The Royle Family was that it almost all took place in a single room and each episode was a single continuous scene.
www.shinyshelf.co.uk /article/237   (332 words)

  
 Aherne returns to Priory Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
TROUBLED Caroline Aherne is today in the Priory clinic again for depression after suffering a relapse, writes Andr Paine.
The Royle Family star spent Christmas, New Year and her 39th birthday in the pounds 2,500a-week London clinic.
The return of the actress and writer is said to have been prompted by her fears for her long-distance relationship with Australian businessman Brett Whitford, together with the breakdown of her working relationship with Royle Family co-writer Craig Cash.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20030203/ai_n12036170   (153 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Royle Family: The Scripts : Series 1: Livres en anglais: Caroline Aherne,Craig Cash,Henry Normal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Royle Family's success is thanks to its performers and to the brilliance of Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash and Henry Normal's script.
Now, to accompany transmission of a second series on the BBC, here are the unedited scripts in all their glorious, perfectly articulated banality.
With an introduction by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash and a colour plate section of photos from the series, this is an absolute must have for all fans of The Royle Family.
www.amazon.fr /Royle-Family-Scripts-1/dp/0233997210   (353 words)

  
 Caroline Aherne Moves abroad to escape public eye
Caroline Aherne Moves abroad to escape public eye
snippet: "Aherne has long vowed to eschew the British tabloid glare in lieu of a quieter life abroad," says The Star.
She is in Oz working on a project for BBC2 but has reportedly put her home in England up for sale.
www.whatthepaperssay.co.uk /archive/stories/2001/06-06-2001-9058.cfm   (141 words)

  
 DVDs staring Caroline Aherne
Sit down put your feet up light a fag and join Britain's first family in their sitting room for the complete three series of The Royle Family as...
Six years after the final Christmas special in 2000 Caroline Aherne and co return to the sofa for a one-off episode of The Royle Family.
The second series of The Fast Show races on from where the first series left off, taking the now-familiar characters and projecting them into new and...
www.find-dvd.co.uk /actor/Caroline-Aherne.htm   (277 words)

  
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 Caroline Aherne: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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Television Roylety: Ricky Tomlinson and Caroline Aherne of BBC's Royle Family MONTY PYTHON is in, but Fawlty Towers out.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Royle Family - The Queen Of Sheba: DVD: Caroline Aherne,Craig Cash,Sue Johnston,Ricky Tomlinson,Ralf ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Royle Family - Series 3 [2000] DVD ~ Caroline Aherne
Actors: Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Sue Johnston, Ricky Tomlinson, Ralf Little
Whichever character is your favourite – Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson), his wife Barbara (Sue Johnston), children Denise (Caroline Aherne), Anthony (Ralf Little), Norma or Nana as she is otherwise known (Liz Smith) and Dave (Craig Cash), they are all back in The Royle Family – The Queen of Sheba.
www.amazon.co.uk /Royle-Family-Queen-Caroline-Aherne/dp/B000H5UY86   (1425 words)

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