Television: Blunt, cutting asides and bloomers

It’s hard to know what or who plays the most prominent part in All Round To Mrs Brown’s

Pamela Anderson with Brendan O’Carroll in All Round to Mrs Brown’s (RTE One, BBC One)

Reviewed This Week

All Round To Mrs Brown’s: RTÉ One; BBC One

Line of Duty: BBC One

Turkey With Simon Reeve: BBC Two

Aren’t you fed up with chat shows? Promotion-heavy, emotion-wringing combinations of the huckster shop and the trauma suite, their imminent extinction by natural selection has been forecast for more than 20 years. But the damn things just keep on popping up.

Sometimes they try something different, like Pat Kenny’s seriously portentous one-on-one interviews In The Round (UTV Ireland), as defunct as the station on which it was broadcast; or, right now, the wacky concept that isAll Round To Mrs Brown’s(RTÉ One, BBC One) which is very much alive alive-o!