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Mrs Brown's Boys simply does not deserve a Christmas Day slot anymore - back in what people think is the good old days of Christmas, even the likes of Morecambe and Wise in their final years at Thames were kicked out of Christmas Day (two reasons - one was the quality of their show was not great by 1981 and second was that London Weekend Television controlled Christmas night networking from 1981 to 1983, with LWT and Thames hating each other, LWT would never air Eric and Ernie on Christmas night. However this is not to say that LWT never networked other ITV companies big shows, they did at Christmas of course).

Brendan O'Carroll has had the luxury of having this sitcom/variety show air on Christmas night now since 2011, that must be a record which is getting close to beating Only Fools and Horses. By Christmas Day 2022, he would have has 12 Christmas Days on air. Only Fools had 14 Christmas Day airings, so it is getting close.