Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special review: a new low – even Brendan O’Carroll doesn’t seem to give a feck anymore

I wouldn’t want to sound all conspiratorial, like or something, but I have a theory that somewhere deep inside the British Broadcasting Corporation is a powerful and deeply evil figure, planted there by shadowy forces. His or her mission? To destroy the BBC from within by way of manipulation, making programmes of such appalling worthlessness that the public eventually lose patience and rise up. What’s more, like all the best villains, they work in plain – broadcast on the holiest day of the television year. Where once the Christmas Day schedules were sanctified by and Mike Yarwood, well, now we have this lazy excuse for entertainment.