Mrs Brown’s Boys is basically a joke in a Christmas cracker. Any other time of the year, you’d make a face. But here you are, in a scorching hot front room with a bunch of people who get on your nerves after a big feed. Finding something familiar to put a smile on everyone’s face is the only way to go. 

Anne-Marie Duff, Cork actress Sarah Greene, Eve Hewson and Brian Gleeson are all in it but it just doesn't work for me

— and a new detective drama, Grace, starts this evening