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Derry Girls. Image shows from L to R: Michelle Mallon (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell), James Maguire (Dylan Llewellyn), Erin Quinn (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Orla McCool (Louisa Harland), Clare Devlin (Nicola Coughlan). Copyright: Hat Trick Productions
Derry Girls

Derry Girls

  • TV sitcom
  • Channel 4
  • 2018 - 2022
  • 19 episodes (3 series)

A warm, funny and honest look at the lives of ordinary people living under the spectre of the Troubles, all seen through the eyes of a local teenager. Stars Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Nicola Coughlan, Louisa Harland, Dylan Llewellyn and more.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 445

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Derry Girls mural 'split in half' by bar awning

Tourists arriving in Londonderry say they have been left feeling disappointed that a new pub awning now partially blocks the city's Derry Girls mural.

Mike McBride, BBC, 12th September 2024

The 50 best TV comedies of all time - ranked

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Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 20th June 2024

No Derry Girls reunion on the horizon - Nicola Coughlan

There is no chance of a Derry Girls reunion any time soon, Irish actor Nicola Coughlan has said.

Jessica Lawrence, BBC, 6th June 2024

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Daily Mail, 24th April 2024

The Office named top landmark comedy of the last 50 years

The Office was the highest-placed comedy in a Broadcasting Press Guild list of the top 50 landmark programmes of the last 50 years.

British Comedy Guide, 13th March 2024

I am not an elderly white man. But you'd think so from my taste in TV comedy

Rising Damp, Only Fools And Horses, The Morecambe And Wise Show... I love them all, even though they haven't aged well.

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, The Guardian, 13th March 2024

Siobhán McSweeney: Extraordinary rise of Derry Girls' Sister Michael

Siobhán McSweeney, who feared being typecast after her hilarious role as a grumpy nun, talks about making her first short film and starring in a Disney sitcom.

Lauren Murphy, The Sunday Times, 10th March 2024

'Great sitcoms are missing from our TV screens and our lives - we need them in these times'

Even if "we're all doomed" under the Tories, as Dad's Army's Pte Frazer would say, shows like George And Mildred, Are You Being Served?, Robin's Nest and Three's Company still make us laugh.

Siobhan McNally, The Mirror, 24th January 2024

Dylan Llewellyn: "Before Derry Girls was a really tough period for me"

Dylan Llewellyn says he's "just going with the flow" at the moment, but the flow is definitely moving in his favour.

Nick Levine, NME, 18th January 2024

Derry Girls final season wins International Emmy Comedy Award

The third and final series of Derry Girls has won a coveted International Emmy award for comedy. The Channel 4 comedy series won the International Emmy for Comedy alongside Netflix special Vir Das: Landing, which first aired in 2022.

BBC, 21st November 2023

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