Mrs. Brown's Boys

Smash hit sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys is back on RTÉ One for a brand spanking new series. Louder and naughtier than ever before, misbehaving matriarch Agnes Brown explodes back onto our screens with six new episodes, following a Christmas special last week.

The second series of the critically-acclaimed gagfest sees the Brown family up to their usual shenanigans. Agnes is still causing chaos and interfering in the lives of her long-suffering children, but only because she loves them.

Once again, Brendan is joined on screen by his real life family. His wife Jennifer Gibney plays Cathy, his daughter Fiona O'Carroll plays Maria, his son Danny O'Carroll is Buster, and his sister Eilish O'Carroll plays next-door-neighbour Winnie McGoogan. Plus a host of new faces will join the riotous Brown clan including Mrs Brown's youngest son Trevor (Martin Delany, husband of Fiona O'Carroll) and Cathy's new love interest Professor Thomas Clowne (Mike Pyatt).

The first series of Mrs Brown's Boys saw its ratings soar week-on-week culminating in an average Irish audience of 924,000 for its final episode and in the UK it was BAFTA-nominated. Created by, written by and starring comedian Brendan O'Carroll the series is based on the sell-out theatre show.

Mrs Brown's Boys is a BBC Scotland co-production with BOCPIX in association with RTÉ. The series is produced by Stephen McCrum (BBC) and the producer for BOCPIX is Martin Delany. Executive Producers are Ewan Angus (BBC Scotland), Mark Freeland (BBC) and Justin Healy (RTÉ). The series is directed by Ben Kellett.

Episodes

Episode one: Mammy and the insurance

Agnes Brown's son, Dermot, and his new wife, Maria, have a baby on the way, and they are desperate for a place of their own, as the smash-hit comedy written by and starring Brendan O'Carroll continues. The newlyweds just can't afford to move out, but Mrs Brown has a plan to help her son...

Loving mother that she is, Agnes has promised the couple the money from Grandad's life insurance policy payout for a deposit for their own home. There's just one minor hitch - Grandad is not dead.

Caught between a suspicious insurance company and her God-fearing son, Trevor, Agnes has to resort to desperate measures to keep Grandad out of sight and her dream alive.

Episode Two - Mammy's Coming!

Agnes is upset that her son Trevor has been called back to the mission, but she is determined to give him a massive send-off to remind him what a loving family he has back home in Ireland.

Meanwhile, with Maria pregnant, Dermot is desperate to raise some money for his growing family. So when best mate Buster comes up with a plan for robbing a circus, Dermot doesn't take much convincing. But as with all of Buster's schemes, things don't go entirely to plan.

Elsewhere, with Jacko still out of action in hospital, Winnie reminisces about the couple's former bedroom antics.

Back at home, psychology student Cathy has organised a family counselling session. It is not long before the session descends into chaos. Things get worse when her policeman boyfriend Mick, turns up to question Dermot about the circus robbery.

Episode 3 - iMammy

With Dermot and Maria's baby due very soon, Agnes is excited about the prospect of having a new Brown in the house. But in the meantime, she has to make do with the robot baby which the expectant couple have been given to practise with at their pre-natal classes.

Unfortunately, the new addition to the family keeps crying and disturbs everyone at night. Agnes kindly offers to babysit the robot baby and seems to have the magic touch, but her methods are not exactly orthodox...

Meanwhile, Cathy is feeling down about her love life. However, there's a new man on the horizon: her psychology lecturer Professor Clowne. Agnes is suspicious that a lecturer would want to hang around with one of his students and questions Clowne's intentions. But in fact the Professor seems more interested in studying Agnes for his new book than he does in spending time with Cathy.

Episode 4 - Super Mammy

Agnes is feeling self-conscious about her weight after some less-than-flattering comments from her family. She decides to go on a diet, but struggles to keep her resolve when she sees her favourite foods. When Agnes eventually succumbs to some doughnuts she is left with a bad case of indigestion. Wanting some relief she takes some of Rory's pills, but she experiences an unexpected side effect.

Rory meanwhile is in good spirits after securing a promotion as manager of the local hair salon. However he is immediately thrown in the deep end when he has to deal with a major staff incident. And as if that wasn't stressful enough, boyfriend Dino is in a foul mood with him after being overlooked for the job.

Episode 6

Spartacus, the old family dog, is looking poorly. Reluctantly the family decide the time has come to put her in a home. However, when the Brown children gather together to decide how to break the sad news to their mother, Agnes gets the wrong end of the stick. Under the impression that her children are planning on putting her in a nursing home, a furious Agnes sets out to persuade her children she's not going senile.

Meanwhile, Cathy's new boyfriend Professor Clowne is determined to interview Agnes for his new book about motherhood and won't take no for an answer. Agnes reluctantly agrees to the interview but then becomes convinced that Clowne actually wants to study her to prove that she's going senile.

Moreover, with Agnes's birthday fast-approaching, the Brown family have decided to throw their mother a surprise party. But poor Agnes is expecting a completely different surprise.

Episode 7 - New Mammy

There's bickering aplenty in the Brown household - Betty is upset with Mark, Rory and Dino are squabbling, and Agnes and Betty rub each other up the wrong way.

Agnes is upset about all the unrest at home but realises that she has an equally frosty relationship with Maria's mother Hilary. With Maria about to give birth, Cathy convinces Agnes to build bridges and invite Hillary out for dinner. Agnes takes Hillary for dinner in a rather unusual setting and relations between the pair gradually begin to thaw - particularly as Hillary gets increasingly drunk.

Meanwhile back at home Maria suddenly goes into labour. With Buster panicking, Dermot fainting and the rest of the family out the house - will the ambulance arrive in time?