Box office bonanza makes a follow-up likely

The BBC is up for making a sequel to Mrs Brown’s Boys D'Movie following the success of the first.

Brendan O'Carroll has already said he wants to make two follow-ups to his big-screen adventure, centred on peripheral characters.

Now the head of BBC Films Christine Langan has told RadioTimes.com: 'I very much hope that he will come up with a sequel and I don’t imagine he won’t.

'He is wonderful to work with and the audience love him and we would want to keep that relationship going.'

And she praised O'Carroll for finding a way of doing 'well-executed broad mainstream comedy' that had been ignored for the last two decades.

'I wouldn’t say the metropolitan elite switch on to him. But we love him at the BBC and now the film world is having to sit up and take notice,' she said.

Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie took £4.3million in its opening weekend and a total of almost £10million in its first ten days. By comparison, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa took £6.2million from its entire time in cinemas.

O’Carroll's idea for sequels are Wash and Blow – based on Mrs Brown's gay son Rory, his husband Dino and their hair salon – and another based on Mr Wang, a character he played in the film with a comedy Chinese accent.

Published: 10 Jul 2014