[Brekkie]

There are valid points here.

I can’t stand Mrs Brown’s Boys, but I accept many people do like it. The BBC should make television for as wide a variety of audiences as possible. I’m unlikely to find everything they make to be for me.

I wouldn’t want the BBC to stop making it, it’s a successful show. I just won’t watch it. That’s fine.

I think most the complaints come from lapsed fans rather than haters - when it started it was quite refreshing and bit's success much deserved - but it continued long past it's sell by date and creatively just doing the specials hurt it with every other episode being a Christmas themed special then usually a non-Christmas episode at New Year.   Airing annually rather than weekly limited what they could do.

They probably still have a hit rate of one or two genuinely decent episodes in every six - you can get away with that in a series but not so much when airing annually.


It's not unique to Mrs Brown's Boys - many Only Fools and Horses fans would prefer the three extra episodes didn't exist (indeed I don't think I've ever seen the last two) and The Royle Family Christmas specials weren't that well received either.