DI Humphrey Goodman and the team are left stumped in the first episode of the new series when millionaire environmentalist and scientist Dan Hagen is shot on his boat while out at sea.
这部昔日的CBS旗舰剧集已经失去了一个好汉（Charlie Sheen被开除，Charlie Harper也随之死亡），现在又将失去半个好汉——因为种种原因（如果你相信CBS官方所说的「他要读大学」那你就太天真了），Angus T. Jones不再是该剧的常规演员，他的名字也将从片头字幕中彻底抹除。
Mrs. Brown's Boys became a runaway success upon its initial broadcast. Every episode aired won its timeslot for RTÉ, with an average viewership of 753,500 in January, 2011. One episode's rating beat that of RTÉ's own ratings giant The Late Late Show, with 856,000 viewers tuning in to watch. However, critics disliked the show. "The whole thing is entirely predicated on viewers finding a man dressed as a foul-mouthed elderly woman intrinsically funny," noted Bernice Harrison in the Irish Times. "If you do, you’re away in a hack (and the viewing figures are astronomical), but if you don’t, and you think that died out with Les Dawson and Dick Emery, then it’s a long half-hour." The Irish Independent said that Mrs Brown's Boys was the type of TV programme that "that makes you vaguely embarrassed to be Irish". The Daily Telegraph's Sam Richards noted that show's comedy has a "rudimentary nature", consisting of "an old-fashioned blend of silly voices and slapstick, played out in front of a live studio audience who collapse into giggles at the mere mention of the word “willy”.
A comedy trivia quiz based around pop music, originally hosted by Mark Lamarr up to October 2006, currently hosted by Simon Amstell. Te am captains Phil Jupitus and Bill Bailey (who replaced Sean Hughes in May 2002) are joined each week by different music stars. Popular rounds include one where team members have to identify song intros hummed to them and another where a bygone music star has to be picked out of a line-up of lookalikes. • Season 9 Episode # Air Date# Guests 9-01 10/Sep/01 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, Steve Strange, Matthew Meschery, Katy Hill 9-02 17/Sep/01 MC Harvey, Paul Ross, Fay Tozer, Ian Astbury 9-03 24/Sep/01 Ben Adams, Chris McCormack, Dara O'Briain, Claire Sweeney 9-04 01/Oct/01 Toyah Wilcox, Steve Lamacq, Captain Sensible, Kermit 9-05 08/Oct/01 Edith Bowman, Mark Steel, Kevin Simm, Terry Hall 9-06 29/Oct/01 Jo Breezer, Alesha Dixon, Rich Hall, Richard McNamara 9-07 15/Oct/01 Roger Sanchez, Brian Molko, Tony Mortimer, Jon Culshaw 9-08 05/Nov/01 Phil Alexander, Kiki Dee, Richard Fairbrass, Mike Wilmot 9-09 22/Oct/01 Jenni Falconer, Becky Hunter, Ricky Tomlinson, David Van Day 9-10 12/Nov/01 (9th series compilation) 9-11 30/Dec/01 Christmas Special
