Apparently it's back after a 10 year gap. Really? It always seems to be on the bloody TV. (!)
Mrs Brown's Boys - More series? Page 2
Yeah saw new episodes pop up on Iplayer the other night.
Ewww ...this show stinks!
Quote: Chappers @ 9th September 2023, 2:41 PMApparently it's back after a 10 year gap. Really? It always seems to be on the bloody TV. (!)
I read/heard something like that somewhere, but I think it's the first series in 10 years (it's had episodes on Christmas Day + New Years Day ever since!)
I'd rather watch Pulp.
I've a complex relationship with the show, having never particularly taken to it but not particularly disliking it, yet feeling I should like it much more than I do, and being particularly disappointed with a few of the most recent specials. So I was pleasantly surprised to find I really quite enjoyed the first episode. It felt like it had the strongest (and most kept-to) plot they've yet done, and the most in-line with the trappings of traditional mainstream sitcom.
1.84 million viewers in the overnight ratings, too. Three or four times that of almost all other contemporary comedy.
Quote: Aaron @ 9th September 2023, 8:01 PM1.84 million viewers in the overnight ratings, too. Three or four times that of almost all other contemporary comedy.
More people watch Big Brother than Ingmar Bergman. Doesn't mean it's any good.
That hardly matters in TV Michael, hence the popularity of soaps or reality shows. TV is built on porridge not caviar. The really good shows that come along are all propped up by the mass of mediocrity and rubbish. Popular = successful, which means it should run longer, making it cheaper and easier to make than untested new shows.
Which proves my point. It is shit.
Brendan O'Carroll has worked hard on the show over the years so deserves recognition for his toil but I've never found any of it funny. The writing is too simple and predictable to make it humorous and it doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as D'Unbelievables. That was believable Irish humour.
Quote: Definitely Tarby @ 10th September 2023, 6:34 PMBrendan O'Carroll has worked hard on the show over the years so deserves recognition for his toil but I've never found any of it funny. The writing is too simple and predictable to make it humorous and it doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as D'Unbelievables. That was believable Irish humour.
Yeah, I don't like Mrs Brown's Boys, but I think Brendan O'Carroll as himself comes across as a likeable chap, and get the impression he'd do well focusing that energy and creativity on a different/better project.
Adolf Hitler worked hard. Don't have to like him.
Quote: Aaron @ 9th September 2023, 8:01 PMI've a complex relationship with the show, having never particularly taken to it but not particularly disliking it, yet feeling I should like it much more than I do, and being particularly disappointed with a few of the most recent specials. So I was pleasantly surprised to find I really quite enjoyed the first episode. It felt like it had the strongest (and most kept-to) plot they've yet done, and the most in-line with the trappings of traditional mainstream sitcom.
1.84 million viewers in the overnight ratings, too. Three or four times that of almost all other contemporary comedy.
Same here.
I've really tried to like it over the years but it just puts me to sleep and I can't really be arsed to watch it in the end.
It just leaves me sorta "eh"
But at least it's still a working class sitcom
I liked the first few series, but now it's just a pantomimic parody of itself, which is fine. Millions love it and Brendon O'Carroll comes across as a lovely chap. If it means there's a mainstream studio sitcom broadcasting new episodes on BBC One, I'm all for it.
It's am-dram pantomime.
And should be treat as such.
Brendan knows that and writes it as that.
In my youth, I trod the boards with an amateur dramatic society and on the big night actors were always corpsing and adding their own lines.
Much to the amusement of the audience. (and us)
And with nearly 2 million viewers you can't scoff at that.
Surprised the Beeb has kept this show commissioned. The recent Million Dollar Mammy episode was pretty OTT regarding fat jokes and potty mouthed sex talk.
Can't think of a recent sitcom that has solely introduced a fat character to universal ridicule with the character even getting in on the act herself!
Which I don't have a problem with per se but it just comes off as not funny and just in poor taste.
Maybe that's what puts me off, its "humour" I find it sophomoric and dull witted...