Brendan O'Carroll

Brendan O'Carroll solves century-old family murder

The creator of the BBC show Mrs Brown's Boys finally nailed the identity of the real-life killer after sifting through documents dating back to the Irish War of Independence.

Mrs Brown's Boys D'sequel? Yes please says BBC

Head of BBC Films Christine Langan tells RadioTimes.com that she would be keen to make a second film based on Brendan O'Carroll's Irish matriarch.

Plans for Mrs Brown spin-off show based at hairdressers

Gary Hollywood will be the mainstay of a spin-off comedy set inside Wash & Blow, the fictional hair salon in Mrs Brown's Boys. Writer Brendan O'Carroll will also star as shop owner Mario while Rory Cowan will continue as Dino's husband Rory Brown.

Billy Connolly to appear on Who Do You Think You Are?

Billy Connollly, Brendan O'Carroll, Julie Walters and Brain Blessed are amongst those who will appear on the next series of family tree show Who Do You Think You Are?

Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie - 'flatly indifferent cash-in'

Brendan O'Carroll's Mrs Brown's Boys has reached the big screen spin-off, and may well become as successful as The Inbetweeners Movie - but on this evidence, it doesn't deserve to.

Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie, review: 'anti-funny'

The big-screen outing of Brendan O'Carroll's popular sitcom lacks the charm, warmth and ambition of its source material.

"Crass, backwards-looking and unfunny," goes the critical consensus on Brendan O'Carroll's feck-flecked sitcom. But what if the critics are on the wrong side of history on this one, like they were with Zeppelin, or the Opal Fruits to Starburst name change? What if Mrs Brown's Boys is actually the platonic ideal of what comedy can and should be? Consider the evidence: here's a show that recognises that a man being assaulted with a rectal thermometer is funnier than any long-winded witticism could ever be; here's a show that offers up a truly progressive family at its centre: a matriarch in drag whose eldest son is out and proud and whose youngest is a model example of the rehabilitative qualities of prison (he's married and has found gainful employment dressing up as a penguin); here's a show that started out on stage and moved to screen, and as such is, arguably, the closest thing our generation has to Play For Today; here's a show that exhibits a flair for fourth-wall-breaking self-awareness - fluffed lines left in the final edit, Mrs Brown directly acknowledging a camera that has strayed into shot - that meta wannabe Arrested Development would kill for; most tellingly, here's a show that regularly attracts 9m viewers at a time when TV audiences are dwindling. Have 9m people ever been wrong? I mean, that's probably the same amount of people that voted for Ukip.