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”.
Starz公布了《血肉之躯》（Flesh and Bone）的剧照，并宣布该剧近日正式开机拍摄。该剧是一部以芭蕾舞为背景的黑色剧集，故事主要描述外表华丽光鲜的芭蕾舞世界所隐藏的「肮脏」的幕后秘密。年轻的芭蕾舞演员Claire Robbins（Sarah Hay）如愿加入纽约最富盛名的芭蕾舞剧团，但她有一段不堪回首的往事，这导致她的情感很脆弱，有自毁倾向。她既是个单纯的天真女孩，也是个极具野心的世故女孩。她是个有天赋的舞蹈演员，但她的心魔和过于脱离实际的志向可能驱使她走上一条未知的道路。
