Mrs. Brown's Boys
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Brendan O'Carroll |
| Written by | Brendan O'Carroll |
| Directed by | Ben Kellett |
| Starring | Brendan O'Carroll Jennifer Gibney Paddy Houlihan Fiona O'Carroll Danny O'Carroll Eilish O'Carroll Pat Shields Amanda Woods Rory Cowan Gary Hollywood Dermot O'Neill Fiona Gibney Susie Blake (Series 2–) |
| Theme music composer | Andy O'Callaghan |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 (+12 specials) |
| No. of episodes | 30 (list of episodes) |
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| Location(s) | BBC Pacific Quay |
| Editor(s) | Mark Lawrence |
| Running time | 30 minutes 35 minutes (2013 Christmas Special, 2014–15 Specials) 40 minutes (2013 New Year Special, 2015–16 Specials) |
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BBC Scotland BOC-PIX RTÉ |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution (North America) |
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RTÉ One BBC One |
| Picture format |
16:9 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 1 January 2011 – Present |
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Mrs. Brown's Boys is an Irish-British television sitcom created by and starring Irish writer and performer Brendan O'Carroll and produced in the United Kingdom by BBC Scotland in partnership with BocPix and RTÉ. O'Carroll himself plays his drag persona, Agnes Brown, with several close friends and family members making up the rest of the cast. The show adopts an informal production style where production mistakes and tomfoolery, mostly instigated by O'Carroll, are edited into each episode. Despite being lambasted by critics, the show has become a ratings success in both Ireland, where it is set, and Britain, where it is recorded. It is also gaining increasingly higher ratings in Australia and Canada. The show has won numerous awards.
Mrs. Brown's Boys was developed from O'Carroll's works going back to the early 1990s. The character, Agnes Browne, first appeared in stage plays, radio plays, books, and straight-to-DVD films. For the sitcom, the spelling of Agnes's surname was shortened from Browne to Brown. A stage show has continued to run, and during February and March 2014 it toured Australia. A feature film, Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie, was released on 27 June 2014.
Mrs. Brown's Boys appeared first on RTÉ 2fm, an Irish radio station, in 1992 and then in a series of books written by Brendan O'Carroll from the mid-1990s onwards. The books, entitled The Mammy, The Chisellers, The Granny, and The Young Wan, were first published in Ireland, before being made available in the United Kingdom. In 1999, The Mammy was adapted into a film titled Agnes Browne with Anjelica Huston playing the title character. Following the success of the film, O'Carroll wrote a series of stories, adapted from the books, in which he played Mrs. Browne (now spelled 'Brown') and cast the rest of the family — including many of his own relatives as characters. A series of seven film-like adaptations were made, which went straight to DVD release. During this time, O'Carroll took the show on the road, appearing in a series of Mrs. Brown plays in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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