26-04-2025
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- The Irish Sun
Mrs Brown's Boys shake-up as Brendan O'Carroll in drastic change for first time ever to draft in star for brand new role
MRS Brown's Boys legend Brendan O'Carroll has drafted in a co-writer for the first time to help pen scripts for the TV show.
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Brendan O'Carroll is writing the script for the new mini-series
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Co-star Paddy Houlihan was drafted in to help with script writing
Credit: BBC
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The show cast held their first table reading in BBC Glasgow this week
Co-star Dermot O'Neill, who plays Grandad on the show, told us: 'Brendan has written over 50 episodes of
Shedites, based in a men's shed, is a sitcom in which Brendan stars alongside Cannon and Ball icon Tommy Cannon.
And Dermot, 73, revealed how there had been a positive reaction to the new Mrs Brown scripts by Brendan and Paddy when the cast held their first table reading in
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He said: '
'If someone mispronounces a word, Brendan will crack up and maybe leave it in the final show.
'The gas thing is that Brendan writes the script and he's probably the one who forgets his lines the most. That's because Mrs Brown has the most to say.'
This will be the fifth series of Mrs Brown's Boys, consisting of four episodes. And there will be lots of excitement next Thursday when Brendan and the Mrs Brown's Boys cast film the first episode of the new
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Dermot told us: 'We actually film the show twice in front of a studio audience, once at 4pm and then again at 7.30pm.
'Each time there's about 200 audience members watching and then about another 200 watching in a viewing room at the BBC.
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'There are so many people who want to join us filming the show and Brendan wants to get as many of them in as possible.'
Dermot revealed that
He said: 'I'm sure there will be a lot of slagging about that when Danny is being introduced to the studio audience but we are all very proud of him.'
Meanwhile Dermot's own return to Mrs Brown is being celebrated after a recent hip replacement.
HUGE RETURN
The Irish Sun revealed how the pensioner from Cabra, Dublin, had a tent instead of a dressing room on their last Mrs Brown arena tour as he couldn't make it up the stairs in the venues where they performed due to his sore hip.
Filming was affected too with his long-haired character stuck in a chair in the last Mrs Brown Christmas special.
However, Dermot will be on the move in the new series after getting a hip op in a
'I FEEL PERFECT'
He said: 'You'll see me moving this time. It's all fixed and I feel perfect. I was a window cleaner for 20 years before Mrs Brown. That's a lot of going up ladders.
'I cleaned all the windows in Temple Bar when there was nothing there but buses.'
Dermot revealed how the cast of Mrs Brown enjoyed a night out in Glasgow on Wednesday.
He added: 'I was reminding Brendan of the first time he bought me a pint. It was June 12, 1988. Ireland was playing
'I was in a band playing the pub Brendan ran called The Finglas Castle. Ireland beat England. Brendan bought everyone a pint. That was some night.'
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Dermot O'Neill returned to the show after a recent hip replacement
Credit: Garrett White - Commissioned by The Sun Dublin
