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Controversial BBC sitcom confirms return to TV after racist slur apology – and it's just weeks away

Controversial BBC sitcom confirms return to TV after racist slur apology – and it's just weeks away

The Irish Sun4 days ago
A CONTROVERSIAL BBC sitcom has been confirmed to return to TV
despite the show's star being forced to apologise over a racial slur.
The Beeb have officially
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A controversial BBC sitcom has been confirmed to return to TV despite the show's star being forced to apologise over a racial slur
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The Beeb have officially revealed the show will be back for a fifth series on August 1st
Credit: BBC
Mrs Brown's Boys will return for its fifth series on Friday 1st August at 9:30pm on BBC One.
The BBC tease: "Agnes Brown and the gang from Finglas are back!
"Everyone's favourite Irish Mammy returns for a brand new fifth series featuring all your favourite characters, so get ready for more slapstick shenanigans this
spring
!"
The BBC's head of comedy, Jon Petrie added: "Brendan has created an iconic
comedy
character in Agnes Brown.
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"Mrs. Brown's Boys is a
The BBC have also reportedly commissioned a full series of a new comedy starring
Filming on the series is due to commence in July and will air on BBC One.
Titled Shedites,
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Produced by BBC Studios, Brendan's Mrs Brown's Boys co-writer Paddy Houlihan scripted Shedites.
Speaking to
health
.
Mrs Brown's Boys star insists racist joke at Christmas special filming 'was a good thing' for the BBC because it 'raised awareness'
'It's not something men talk about, but it's got easier because of the men's shed movement which has sprung up in UK and
Ireland
.
'There's a kitchen, a card table and all that but even more important, men can go there and talk through their problems.'
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He previously said: "If our comedy eco-system is shrinking, then it's on all us to fight for the right of UK mainstream comedy to exist.
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We look back at some of the best to ever grace the screen.
Fawlty Towers (1975-1979) - Only two series were made of the beloved institution. However, the cultural impact of the series starring
Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003) - The show was crowned by some as the best British sitcom of all time by a TV poll in 2004. Seven series were broadcast on BBC until 1991 with additional sporadic Christmas specials airing until 2003.
Gavin and Stacey (2007 - Present) The series tells the story of Gavin (
"The sitcom isn't dead but it needs a couple of Berocca. And a black americano with two sugars."
Brendan O'Carroll
was forced to issue
after he cracked a 'joke' using the N-word in front of a junior member of production who was so upset they later quit.
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Last year,
the
BBC
temporarily halted filming of the show's Christmas special
after Brendan
which he later admitted it had backfired.
A
TV
insider said: 'Virtually everyone in the room on the day that the outburst happened were shocked, but the reading continued for some time without anyone saying or doing anything as they were so stunned.
'There was no excuses for what he said or any kind of context or mitigation he could provide for making the slur, he just seemed to think it was amusing.'
Brendan said of the incident: 'At a read-through of the Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas specials, there was a clumsy attempt at a joke, where a racial term was implied.
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'It backfired and caused offence, which I deeply regret and for which I have apologised.'
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Last year, the BBC temporarily halted filming of the show's Christmas special after Brendan made an attempted gag which he later admitted had backfired
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