Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll stars in Mrs Brown's Boys.
I think it would be fair to refer to Mrs Brown's Boys as an acquired taste.
Also, like many entertainment attributes, comedy is a very subjective thing.
I watched segments of Mrs Brown's Boys occasionally but have to confess it never hooked me.
Yeah there were some great lines (many of them brutally colourful) but if there was Formula 1 early practice on a Sky Pop-up channel or Graham Norton elsewhere then I'd pretty much pass it up.
It all just seemed a little ... loud.
But Brendan O'Carroll is a very accomplished comedian and with this character in a dress he struck pay dirt, big time.
So I give him his dues because as I said, there were some genuinely funny moments to be had in the Brown household ... but in certain doses.
And so it has come to pass that Mrs Brown's front door has been opened now to more than just her boys.
Her "home" (albeit a set of course) has been opened up as the venue for a chat show called All Round to Mrs Brown's, where she and her family entertain guests - real-life guests.
Along the lines of Ross Kemp, Lulu, Pamela Anderson, James Blunt and Phillip Schofield among others.
Yep, they call by (for some reason) and are hosted by the Brown family with the often inevitable results as Mrs Brown questions them, in her manner.
Given that Brendan O'Carroll wrote the scripts, as he also did with the Mrs Brown's Boys series', you pretty well know what to expect.
The guests of course arrive scriptless, although the musicians among them do arrive with the appropriate sheet music.
It's not entirely new, this blending of fictional hosts and real guests.
For seven seasons and 53 episodes there was another British effort along these lines called The Kumars at No. 42 and it worked, and worked very well.
To the tune of picking up a couple of fine awards during those seven seasons - among them an international Emmy.
So Brendan O'Carroll and his alter ego Mrs Brown have got a bit of work ahead to catch that record, although they are on the way.
After the six-episode series we are about to see ended after screening across the UK and Ireland the BBC announced they would put up the cash for another series which is due to be rolled out next year.
So how did it fare in what is effectively its homeland?
The opening episode drew in 6.93 million viewers and the final episode (six) drew in 5.87 million viewers.
A rather dramatic fall given there are a million viewers involved, but the BBC wants Mrs Brown to keep the front door open to guest in the future.
Not sure how it will fit here.
It is set to start on TV1 at 8.40pm on Thursday and the final credits are scheduled to roll at 10pm.
That is a fair old haul for any comedy/chat show.
Going on around 90 minutes is also a stretch for a talent show, but that's what The Voice Australia racks up on TV2 on Friday night.
It's not my cup of cocoa but hey, it fills a gap, and could be seen as an excessive entree to what follows - Boy Band.
A reality singing competition to find another chart-topping boy band.
Wow, yeah, just what we need.
But if Mrs Brown was invited aboard as an aggressive and uncompromising judge then I'd probably have a quick squizz.
● All Round to Mrs Brown's, TV1 at 8.40pm Thursday: Crikey, a brand new show that's not involved with finding new talent on a stage or in a kitchen.
So that's got to be a plus.
ON THE BOX
● Border Security: America's Frontline, Prime at 7.30pm tonight: These "border" shows do intrigue me, given I was once pulled aside at Melbourne Airport for an "explosives" check by a heavily garbed officer and his sniffer dog.
I was quite chuffed really, because the previous time it was the drugs crew who collared me.
They found nothing of interest ... but were thrilled when I showed them MotoGP race star Valentino Rossi's autograph.
It's very much a people game at these places where travellers meet officialdom and authority, and some people just can't take it well ... especially if loaded with contraband or dodgy documentation of course.
It's like watching the passing parade at any international airport border. Colourful.
● Robot Wars, Prime at 7.30pm Friday: Ahh, time for the kid in us all to come out.
Time to watch really flash looking robots smash the you-know-what out of each other.
Time to pick a side and cheer for them ... until they get the you-know-what smashed out of them, then you pick someone else's robotic creation and cheer for that until it gets the ... you know how it goes.
I used to watch the first incarnation of this with my son when he was about 10 and we taped them all ... on dear old VHS.
A now talented graphic artist, he drew a great poster of his favourite killer robot and had it on his wall. So here we have the 2017 version of robotic shredding events with Dara O'Briain and Angela Scanlon hosting.
Great fun.