Mrs. Brown's Boys
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2011 - 2024
- 49 episodes (4 series)
Sitcom adaptation of the popular live stage show starring Brendan O'Carroll as aged housewife Agnes Brown. Also features Derek Reddin, Jennifer Gibney, Paddy Houlihan, Rory Cowan, Pat Shields and more.
- Due to return in December 2024
- Christmas Special repeated Saturday at 10pm on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 2,481
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British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2020Mrs Brown's Boys 2019 specials review
If you don't like Mrs Brown's Boys by now, nothing I've written will change your mind. It's one of those shows that you love or you hate and, as someone who loves it, I can recommend these latest two festive offerings. It's more of the same family-oriented humour, focusing unashamedly on making you laugh and nothing else, and it does a wonderful job - comedy doesn't need to be anything else.
Reece Goodall, The Boar, 8th January 2020The second festive edition of the bawdy panto is almost a whodunnit, even if Agatha Christie would probably disapprove of the eye-watering innuendo. Peggy Piper the Pernod Poisoner is out of jail and gunning for the eyewitness who put her there: Winnie. The question is: can Mrs Brown unravel the case?
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 1st January 2020Mrs Brown's Boys is now Jamaica's most popular comedy
It's the potty-mouthed comedy that divides opinion in Britain - but Mrs Brown's Boys is winning a whole new audience of sitcom fans around the world.
James Desborough, Daily Mail, 29th December 2019Christmas TV review: Gavin & Stacey, Mrs. Brown's Boys
Reviews of both Gavin & Stacey (****) and Mrs. Brown's Boys (**).
Carol Midgley, The Times, 26th December 2019Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special, review
Brendan O'Carroll's show puts two fingers up to the snooty metropolitan elite and appeals to viewers with fond memories of the early 1970s.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 25th December 2019Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special: it's perfectly fine
For something that provokes such venom, Mrs Brown's Boys is a lot like other British comedies.
Barbara Speed, i Newspaper, 25th December 2019Decline in Xmas comedy classics is no laughing matter
The audience is more fragmented than it used to be, and there is less consensus about what counts as family entertainment. The sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys is one of the BBC's biggest hits in that area, but I can't be the only one who finds its endless reliance on swearing for laughs off-putting.
Andrew Vine, The Yorkshire Post, 24th December 2019Mrs Brown: how TV's worst show become Xmas must-watch
Somehow, without anyone noticing, the dire BBC sitcom has become the centrepiece of Christmas TV. How on Earth did this happen?
Joel Golby, The Guardian, 21st December 2019Why Mrs Brown's Boys is worth watching
Trendy, sophisticated types are wrong to sneer at Mrs Brown's Boys, writes Aidan Smith, who plans to watch the Christmas special for the first time.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 17th December 2019