Editing Keeping Up Appearances (section)

==Prequel==
{{Main|Young Hyacinth}}
In 2015, it was announced that a [[prequel]] to the series entitled ''[[Young Hyacinth]]'' would be made, with original writer [[Roy Clarke]] returning to pen the script, following a 19-year-old Hyacinth Bucket during the early postwar years and set some forty years before the events of ''Keeping Up Appearances''.<ref name="younghyacinth">{{cite news |last1=Foster |first1=Patrick |title=Keeping Up Appearances set to return as Young Hyacinth |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11999379/Keeping-Up-Appearances-set-to-return-as-Young-Hyacinth.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11999379/Keeping-Up-Appearances-set-to-return-as-Young-Hyacinth.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=21 November 2015 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=16 November 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The cast were announced on 11 April 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/young-hyacinth |title=Kerry Howard to play Young Hyacinth in a special prequel to Keeping Up Appearances for BBC One |work=BBC |date=11 April 2016 |access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> Hyacinth was played by [[Kerry Howard]]; Rose by Katie Redford; Daisy by Katherine Pearce; Violet by [[Tamla Kari]] and Daddy by [[Mark Addy]]. It was broadcast on BBC One on 2 September 2016.<ref>{{cite web| title=Young Hyacinth| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07td567| publisher=BBC| access-date=27 April 2017}}</ref>

The prequel sees Hyacinth working as a maid and attempting to manage her family, so they appear well above their means. In the special, Hyacinth is in a relationship with a Mr. William Hitchcock, whom Hyacinth forces to dress up and wear a hat when they walk. The special ends with her drunken Daddy falling into the canal, which Hyacinth's employers see, causing her great embarrassment. However, she blames Daddy's behaviour on "an old war injury".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a790173/keeping-up-appearances-remake-kerry-howard-will-play-a-young-hyacinth/ |title=Keeping Up Appearances remake casts Kerry Howard as a young Hyacinth |last=Warner |first=Sam |date=11 April 2016 |work=[[Digital Spy]] |access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/coronation-street/news/a790286/katie-redford-lands-new-role-in-keeping-up-appearances-prequel/ |title=Sacked Coronation Street star Katie Redford lands a new role in the Keeping Up Appearances prequel |last=Harp |first=Justin |date=11 April 2016 |work=Digital Spy |access-date= 12 April 2016}}</ref>

Approximately 4.14 million viewers watched the show within seven days of its broadcast, making it the 22nd-most-watched BBC One show for the week ending 4 September. A total of 4.39 million viewers watched the show within 28 days of its initial broadcast.<ref>{{cite web| title=Weekly top 30 programmes| url=http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/ |publisher=[[Broadcasters' Audience Research Board]] |access-date=27 April 2017}}</ref>