Mrs Brown's Boys named Best Comedy at National TV Awards

The sitcom 'Mrs Brown's Boys' won Best Comedy at the National Television Awards in London. Other winners included 'The Celebrity Traitors' and 'Clarkson's Farm'.
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Mrs Brown's Boys was named Best Comedy at this year's National Television Awards in the UK.
The Brendan O’Carroll sitcom took the prize at a ceremony held at London’s O2 Arena last night.
It beat off competition from Amandaland, Changing Ends, Last One Laughing and Not Going Out to take the award.
It marks another NTA Comedy win for Brendan O'Carroll’s long-running sitcom, which has previously taken the award several times.
The Celebrity Traitors and Clarkson's Farm also won top prizes at the National Television Awards.
The first celebrity spin-off of the BBC smash hit was named Best Reality Competition, after comedian Alan Carr was revealed to be a traitor in a nail-biting finale.
Collecting the gong, his co-star, Charlotte Church, said: "I just want to say – that final, what a beautiful vignette of male tenderness and emotional expression.
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