Ralf Little

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.

A new sitcom from director and executive producer Craig Cash (The Royle Family) that is co-written by Ralf Little (The Royle Family and Two Pints...) and Michelle Terry (Reunited). It's a classic British sitcom set-up - take an institution (in this case a seaside cafe) and use it as a hub for characters to interact and to tease out class, inter-generational and social observations. The comedy and characters are gentle, if at times familiar, but there's a nice pace to it, as though pitched somewhere between Gavin And Stacey and Alan Bennett.

Michelle Terry introduction

When we started writing The Café, Ralf Little and I were mostly influenced by what we didn't want to write...

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...