Bawdy effin Irish comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys ran away with the non-news TV crown last night, but could not give Seven a win over Nine.

Neither could the show which pulled 993,000 viewers, pull stablemate Citizen Khan (584,000) up with it, as nine News (1.237m) held off Seven News (1.21m) and Today Tonight (1.083m) to win the night.

Ten again lost out to ABC1, where The Checkout pulled an impressive 912,000 viewers, beating perennial favourite Border Security on Seven (877,000) in the 8pm slot, according to the OzTam Overnight ratings.