For Facts Sake
- TV panel show
- BBC One
- 2018
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll hosts a panel show quiz. Also features Danny O'Carroll, Paddy Houlihan, Jennifer Gibney, Fiona O'Carroll and Pat Shields
Press clippings
Brendan "Mrs Brown" O'Carroll drags this pound-shop QI through to the last episode, with his teams captained by Danny and Fiona O'Carroll and Bill Oddie as this week's expert. The audience titter whenever the word "fact" is used where an expletive could stand. Surely that Question Time job beckons for O'Carroll.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 19th November 2018For Facts Sake: review
My biggest issue - is it's just not funny.
Andy Lloyd, Telly Binge, 19th October 2018For Facts Sake: like a concussed QI
Look out, Brendan O'Carroll has a new role as a quiz-show host.
Stuart Heritage, i Newspaper, 15th October 2018Brendan O'Carroll's remorseless rampage through various light-entertainment formats continues. Having laid waste the sitcom and the chatshow, the Mrs Brown's Boys creator tackles the panel quiz. It's as proudly inane as you would expect, although the element of audience participation does give it a pleasingly chaotic edge.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 15th October 2018Mrs Brown's Boys stars to film BBC panel show For Facts Sake
BBC One is making For Facts Sake, a new panel show hosted by Brendan O'Carroll and starring other members of the Mrs Brown's Boys cast as team captains.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd February 2018Mrs Brown's Boys star to host studio entertainment show
Brendan O'Carroll, the star of Mrs Brown's Boys, is to host a new studio entertainment show pilot for BBC One called Tell Me Something I Don't Know.
British Comedy Guide, 6th September 2017