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: 2,482
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Brendan O'Carroll on Mrs Brown's Boys
Anything could happen tonight on BBC One - Mrs Brown is broadcasting live...
Mark Lawson, Radio Times, 23rd July 2016Mrs. Brown's Boys Live - the Donald Trump of sitcoms
Mrs. Brown's Boys is the Donald Trump of sitcoms. Brendan O'Carroll's ribald ratings gobbler has become a red rag to the intelligentsia yet its popularity soars unbounded with 9.7 million tuning in to last year's Christmas special and nearly 40,000 viewers applying for the 400 audience places the BBC had made available for this one-off live broadcast from Glasgow.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 23rd July 2016Brendan O'Carroll spills family secrets
The star talks to the Mirror about how he and his wife took in needy kids - and why he never takes his TV alter ego home with him.
Emily Retter, The Mirror, 20th July 2016Radio Times launches a poll to name the best sitcom since 2000
Radio Times has launched a poll to name the best British TV sitcom broadcast since the year 2000. There are 40 shows in the shortlist.
British Comedy Guide, 19th July 2016Mrs Brown's Boys live episode won't have a swear buzzer
There will be no safety net when the occasionally foul-mouthed Mammy goes live for the night.
Paul Jones, Radio Times, 18th July 2016The danger of constantly celebrating the past
Nostalgia. Easy promotability. A blend of old and new. Low risk. Lots of press. And a brand new half hour to be written by Clement and Frenais, writers of the near-perfect Porridge. What's not to like? As a consumer of comedy, I'm fine with all of the above obviously. As a writer of comedy, my feelings are slightly more mixed.
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 14th March 2016BBC releases full details on Landmark Sitcom Season
The BBC has confirmed details of its Landmark Sitcom Season, with new episodes of Porridge, Keeping Up Appearances and Up Pompeii! confirmed alongside pilots, documentaries and panel shows.
British Comedy Guide, 10th March 2016Not to everyone's taste, but Mrs Brown's Boys is widely watched over the festive season. There's precious little concession to the holidays in this New Year special - more, as ever, a procession of near-the-knuckle jokes, delivered while the cast try their hardest (not always successfully) to avoid laughing. Tonight, Robert Bathurst guests as a surprise visitor to Foley's Bar. He has designs not on Kathy (who has "been on so many blind dates she needs a guide dog") but on Agnes Brown herself.
John Robinson, The Guardian, 1st January 2016Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 2015, review
Despite constant lambasting by critics for its lowest-common-denominator formula, there were some funny moments in Brendan O'Carroll's throwback sitcom, says Gerard O'Donovan.
Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 25th December 2015Meet the cast of the Mrs Brown's Boys
In case you're not familiar with the Brown Clan, here's a breakdown of some its most important faces.
Radio Times, 25th December 2015