Brendan O'Carroll's vow

Mrs Brown’s Boys will be on our screens for at least five more years.

Creator Brendan O’Carroll says two more Christmas specials have already been commissioned and added: ‘The BBC are expecting Christmas specials up until 2020.’

He spoke after his son Danny – who also plays Buster in the show – was quoted in an interview as saying the sitcom was over.

‘The journalist asked what is happening with Mrs Browns and [Danny] went, “Oh we have finished”,’ O’Carroll told the Mirror. ‘But what he meant is that we’d just finished filming the Christmas special.”

Mrs Brown’s Boys was the single most-watched show on Christmas Day with 7.6 million viewers, and came second only to EastEnders last night, with 7.9million.

O’Carroll is now taking two months off before returning to writing the show – and says he has plans for other TV series.

‘I’d love to do a TV programme from arrivals at the airport and interview people waiting for loved ones coming out,’ he said. ‘I would like to film them and speak to them about who they are waiting for and why they are there.’

He also wants to make a cookery show with the chef who caters for the Mrs Brown’s Boys team when they are on tour, and a story about the history of dance inspired by his wife Jenny’s time on Strictly Come Dancing and fronted by his son Danny and Paddy Houlihan, who play Buster and Dermot in Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Published: 2 Jan 2015