© BBC BBC orders a new series of Mrs Brown's Boys
The first non-festive run since 2013
The BBC has ordered a new mini-series of Mrs Brown’s Boys.
Brendan O’Carroll is to make four new episodes of his opinion-dividing sitcom for BBC One and RTÉ in Ireland.
He said: ‘This mini-series was actually planned for 2021. Having been thwarted twice, firstly by Covid-19 and then by a post Covid shortage of studios, it’s fantastic to, at last, have the chance to make it happen. Fasten your seatbelts and hold onto your hats!’
The show has been a regular feature of Christmas schedules for over a decade – but only three regular series have been made - in 2011, 2012 and 2013, each of six episodes.
At its peak, in Christmas 2013, the show attracted 11.4million viewers – although last year’s December 25 special mustered a more modest 2.4million.
Jon Petrie, director of comedy at the BBC, said: ‘BBC Comedy are pleased to announce that after a decade since the last full series of Mrs.Browns Boys, millions of viewers around the UK will be thrilled to hear that Brendan is bringing Agnes and the family back together for a brand-new mini-series of his award-winning show.’
O’Carroll revealed that he was hoping to shoot the four new episodes – plus another two-part Christmas special – in an interview in December.
Filming of the new episodes will take place this spring with transmission slated for later this year.
The series also stars O’Carroll's wife Jenifer Gibney, sister Eilish, son Danny, daughter Fiona, son-in-law, Martin Delany, daughter-in-law Amanda Woods and grandson, Jamie
Programme-makers at BBC Studios, which makes the show with O’Carroll’s production company BOC-PIX, described Mrs Brown as ’an absolute force of outrageous wit and slapstick that has audiences hooked and belly laughing’.
All 43 previous episodes are on BBC iPlayer.
Created and written by: Brendan O'Carroll
Commissioned for the BBC One by: Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy.
Executive producers: Steven Canny, Josh Cole, Brendan O’Carroll, Fiona Gibney ,Justin Healy
Commissioning editor: Ben Caudell.
Published: 5 Mar 2023
