Brendan O'Carroll pilots new TV show

Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O'Carroll is working on a new show for the BBC.

The comic revealed that he is piloting a TV version of his first play, The Course.

It is about a group of no-hopers who sign on for a course in positive thinking run by a conman. O'Carroll performed it in the mid-Nineties, before he set up his family theatre group to make a success of Agnes Brown.

Speaking to the Radio Times at the National Television Awards last night, O'Carroll said: ‘We are working on a pilot of my very first play, called The Course. The story's about a man who gives a positive mental attitude course to complete losers in the effort to try and get them to sell insurance door to door. It should be fun!’

O'Carroll added that he wouldn’t want to end Mrs Brown but ‘there's other stuff I want to do, and there's other stuff the BBC want me to do.

‘We’ll try something. If it doesn't work we'll go back to Mrs Brown,’ he added.

More Mrs Brown Christmas specials are in the pipeline, and O'Carroll had previously mooted the idea of two follow-ups to Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie – the critically slated box office topper. One of the spin-offs is based on a new character he played in the movie Mr Wang, the second is about gay hairdressers Rory and Dino from the original series.

Mrs Brown’s picked up the NTA award best comedy award for the third successive year.

Published: 22 Jan 2015