Mum's the word

Brendan O'Carroll is back with more Mammy Brown mayhem

-  ELAINE REILLY, NATASHA HOLT, STEVEN PERKINS

NEW COMEDY 

Mrs. Brown's Boys

Friday, 9.30pm, BBC1 (box set, BBC iPlayer)

Usually a mainstay of the festive schedules with a Christmas special and a New Year knees-up, this week Mrs. Brown’s Boys returns to BBC1.

The new four-part run, created by and starring Brendan O’Carroll, opens with Irish matriarch Agnes Brown (O’Carroll) down in the dumps and in conflict with Grandad (Dermot O’Neill), who’s proving to be a pain in the proverbial!