The ‘worst TV show of all time’ returns to BBC One tonight
Maybe see what's in ITV tonight?
How are you planning on spending your evening? Going out with friends? Watching a movie? Well, whatever you do, you may want to avoid BBC One.
That may sound dramatic, but one of the most divisive TV series of all time returns tonight after a two-year break from our screens.
So what’s the show?
Well, it’s Mrs Brown’s Boys, of course, a comedy series so reviled by some that they’ve branded it ‘the worst TV show ever made’.
Created by and starring Brendan O’Carroll, Mrs Brown follows the titular ‘Agnes Brown,’ an interfering old woman who can’t help sticking her nose in her friends and family’s business.
The show’s real schtick, though, is how ‘informal’ it is, with Carroll regularly breaking the fourth wall, chucking in improvised gags, and leaving in outtakes.
The joke is he’s wearing a wig… I think? (Picture: BBC / Alan Peebles) Mrs Brown’s Boys is a bit like Marmite… (Credits: Graeme Hunter / BBC Studios / BOC)If that sounds like your type of thing, then you can check it out for yourself by tuning into BBC One at 9:30 pm tonight.
A quick warning, though, Mrs brown’s Boys has not received good reviews. In fact, that’s a bit of an understatement.
The Irish Independent said of the first season that it’s the type of show that ‘makes you embarrassed to be Irish’ while the Daily Record labelled it ‘lazy, end-of-pier trash’.
