Brendan O'Carroll

If I keep watching this, will I start to appreciate what everyone else sees in it? Or will I just start softly weeping? So far neither has happened; I just get annoyed.

This is the second week of Mrs Brown's new chat show where celebrities drop by Mammy's house to sit on the sofa and have a natter. Despite the show being crude and loud, Mrs Brown has managed to pull in some genuine celebrities - by which I mean "people who are obviously recognisable".

You can't shake your head at her guests and snort, "Celebrities? Never 'eard of 'em!"

Last week she had Pamela Anderson, for crying out loud! Someone who has actually been to Hollywood!

Tonight she welcomes daytime TV overlords Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, plus Lulu and Adam Woodyatt, the latter better known as Ian Beale from EastEnders, and, in the pub, Kaiser Chiefs play a few songs.

Brendan O'Carroll continues his alter ego's move into Saturday-night variety, having squashed The Voice in the ratings last week. Such a loose comedy hasn't had to adapt much: the audience now step through that broken fourth wall to win white goods, while the Mrs Merton/Kumars bits demonstrate that those innuendos don't need to be scripted. Tonight's stooges are Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby and Kaiser Chiefs.

Mrs Brown's chatshow is pure drivel

Everything that's fun about family variety turned to mud in the hands of Mrs Brown and her brood. Even the gags that half-worked were overdone to death.

Brendan O'Carroll's Irish mammy has bossed her way through radio plays, novels, stage shows, an unstoppable sitcom and a movie. So deploying her as a Saturday night chatshow host welcoming celebs into the Brown family lounge - a place where the fourth wall is regularly demolished - doesn't actually seem that weird. Pop prophet Louis Walsh, tennis matriarch Judy Murray and a presumably bemused Pamela Anderson are the first guests.

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All Round To Mrs Brown's preview

This probably isn't going to be the saviour of Saturday night TV - and is less appealing than Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - but it's a natural progression of the Agnes Brown 'brand' and, perhaps surprisingly, not as dire as the sitcom that spawned it. Is that progress?

All Round to Mrs Brown's: ultimate Marmite TV creation

All Round To Mrs Brown's is another step in the BBC's mystifyingly popular cash cow's road to potty-mouthed world domination, with Agnes setting herself up as a rival to Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross et al.

All Round to Mrs Brown's review

The Saturday night entertainment series delivers exactly what you'd expect from the nation's most notorious mammy.

All Round to Mrs Brown's - review

Brendan O'Carroll agnostics will decry further airtime for the comedian as yet another indication that humanity has outlived its usefulness. But, in addition to a dirty mind, All Round to Mrs Brown's had a big heart and that made it just about tolerable.

Preview - All Round to Mrs. Brown's

Love it or hate it, there is still at least one positive to take from it: it can't be any worse than The Nightly Show.