好汉两个半 第九季

　　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

　　Grace Devlin（乔丹娜·斯皮罗 Jordana Spiro 饰）是芝加哥罗斯福医学中心的顶级住院医师，特别擅长心肺手术。为了帮助遭到人身威胁的兄弟Nate（杰西·李·索夫 Jesse Lee Soffer 饰）还清巨额赌债，她与芝加哥南方黑帮的首领做了一个交易：私下为她曾经十分厌恶的黑帮组织成员提供医疗服务，分文不取直到还清兄弟的债。于是在白天，Grace要顶着巨大的压力仔细研究罗斯福医学中心的每一个疑难病例。然而在夜里，Grace必须调整心态去面对另一个世界，去帮助那些为非作歹之徒。

　　《本能》讲述曾任职中央情报局的情报员Dylan（Alan Cumming饰），离职后的他原本想建立了一个「正常」的生活，当起一位有才华的教授兼作家，不过当纽约警察向他寻求协助，希望他阻止个在逃的连环杀手时，他又得重回自己的旧生活了。