Mrs. Brown's Boys

Mrs. Brown's Boys
GenreComedy
Created byBrendan O'Carroll
Written by
  • Brendan O'Carroll
  • Paddy Houlihan
Directed byBen Kellett
Starring
Theme music composerAndy O'Callaghan
Opening themeMrs. Brown's Boys Theme Tune
Ending themeMrs. Brown's Boys Outro
ComposerAndy O'Callaghan
Country of originIreland
United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series4
No. of episodes51 (29 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Brendan O'Carroll
  • Chris Sussman
  • Justin Healy
  • Mark Freeland
  • Martin Delany
  • Ewan Angus
  • Steven Canny
  • Eddie Doyle
Producers
  • Stephen McCrum
  • James Farrell
  • Fiona Gibney
  • Tracy McParland
Production locationBBC Pacific Quay
EditorMark Lawrence
Running time
  • 3040 minutes
Production companiesBBC Studios Comedy Productions
BBC Scotland
BOC-PIX
RTÉ
Original release
NetworkBBC One
RTÉ One (Ireland)
Release1 January 2011 (2011-01-01) 
present
Related
All Round to Mrs. Brown's

Mrs. Brown's Boys is a television sitcom created by and starring Brendan O'Carroll and produced in Ireland by BBC and BBC Studios in partnership with BOC-PIX and Irish broadcaster RTÉ. The series stars O'Carroll as Agnes Brown, with several of O'Carroll's close friends and family members making up the rest of the cast. The show adopts an informal production style often breaking the fourth wall; material that would normally be outtakes are intentionally left in broadcast episodes, along with intentional tomfoolery, mostly instigated by O'Carroll.

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' 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. In late 2023, the show returned for a fourth series of four episodes. In April 2025, it was announced that a fifth series of four episodes had been commissioned which will be filmed in May 2025.

The show has received poor reviews by critics and received unfavourable comparisons to Father Ted. Despite this, it became a ratings success in both Ireland, where it is set, and the United Kingdom, where it is recorded. It also received high ratings in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The show has won numerous industry awards. Despite a limited number of episodes, the show has returned annually for Christmas and New Year's specials since 2013.