It’s a mam’s world: Brendan O’Carroll, right, as the eponymous Mrs Brown, alongside his wife, Jennifer Gibney, who plays the matriarch’s daughter, Cathy - Graeme Hunter/BBC Television’s most divisive ...

Usually the mainstay of the festive schedules with a Christmas Day special and a New Year’s Day knees-up, Mrs Brown’s Boys is back on BBC One with its first series in ten years. The new four-parter, ...

Is Mrs Brown’s Boys really that bad? Until last week, I had never seen more than a minute of Brendan O’Carroll’s infamous BBC sitcom – but knew it, of course, by reputation. The series, which sees ...

I was chatting, a few months ago, with a comedy legend who had, in the past, written for Brendan O’Carroll’s sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys. I confessed, quite blithely, that I – like everyone I’ve ever met ...