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.
Streaming rank this week: 446
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Derry Girls most watched show in Northern Ireland 2018
The second episode of Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls was the most watched TV programme in Northern Ireland last year, according to Ofcom figures.
BBC, 7th August 2019Broadcast Digital Awards 2019 winners
Fleabag and Hounslow Diaries picked up prizes at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2019, with Comedy Central and Dave also winning.
British Comedy Guide, 4th July 2019Derry Girls and Would I Lie To You? win Televisual Awards
Derry Girls and Would I Lie To You? were amongst the winners in the Televisual Bulldog Awards 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 14th June 2019Comedies in the running for Edinburgh TV Awards 2019
Fleabag, Famalam, Derry Girls, Catastrophe, Stath Lets Flats and After Life are in the running for the Edinburgh TV Awards 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 12th June 2019Derry Girls, Hang Ups and Inside No. 9 up for South Bank Awards
Inside No. 9, Derry Girls and Hang Ups are the nominees in the Comedy category of The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2019. The Favourite and Jessie Cave are also in the shortlists.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd June 2019The Derry Girls cast would "love" to make a movie
"Let's ride this Derry train as long as we can convince people we're schoolkids!"
Radio Times, 13th May 2019Nicola Coughlan responds after Bafta dress comment
Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan has responded to a comment criticising the way she looked at the Bafta TV Awards. In a Daily Mirror report about the worst dressed, the 32-year-old's pink dress was described as "not the most flattering".
Christian Hewgill, BBC, 13th May 2019BAFTAs: line between comedy & drama more blurred
Hard to categorise, but I'd say Killing Eve, by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, was a comedy-drama. If you believed it was meant to be a straight thriller, I can see how you might be nonplussed.
Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 10th May 2019Derry Girls ended on a delightful, air-punching high; but as the third series was announced instantly I needn't get at all vexed. We're all Derry Girls now, splenetic and loving and itchily human.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 14th April 2019Lisa McGee - Brexit threatens Northern Irish peace
McGee said the sitcom set in 1990s Derry against a backdrop of the Troubles was a negative reaction to Reservoir Dogs.
Adam Sherwin, i Newspaper, 14th April 2019