Mrs Brown’s Boys takes home top award at the National TV Awards last night

Mrs Brown's Boys received the Best Sitcom award at the National Television Awards across the water last night.

by Genna Patterson

Brendan O’Carroll is probably smiling pretty broadly today after his show Mrs. Brown’s Boys took home the award for Best Sitcom at the National Television Awards.

The show won a BAFTA last year, so the UK public are pretty fond of it and the Christmas special had over eight million viewers in the UK .

O’Carroll accepted the prestigious award from Eastenders actress June Brown (Dot Cotton) and thanked his friends and family before joking: “The only person that’s not in the show is my mother and that’s because she is dead.”

The award comes after the news yesterday that O’Carroll is foregoing a fourth season of the comedy show in order to make a full length movie instead. He will continue to make the Christmas specials until 2015 though.

The movie is provisionally titled Mrs Brown De Filum and has a budget of €4.5 million. It will shoot in August.

Other winners of the National Television Awards include Ant and Dec for Best Entertainment Presenter (12th year in a row), Downton Abbey (Drama), Frozen Planet (Documentary Series), QI (Comedy Panel Show), This Morning (Daytime) and Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs (Factual Entertainment).

The Special Recognition title went to Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley while the Landmark award went to London 2012.