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: 444
Press clippings Page 17
The rise of female-led comedy
I look forward to a time where I won't need to write an article about how great it is that there's more female comedy. It will all just be comedy.
Jordan Maxwell Ridgway, The Boar, 7th March 2019Derry Girls, Series Two, Channel 4 review
Welcome back, gang.
Owen Richards, The Arts Desk, 6th March 2019Derry Girls review
This is a comedy about how memory exaggerates childhood, so that all the nuns are monsters, while the mothers do nothing but trade paranoid gossip.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 6th March 2019The Derry Girls are the new emblems of Northern Ireland
It's the only thing we'd all be talking about now - if it weren't for letter bombs, Bloody Sunday and Brexit.
Susan McKay, The Guardian, 6th March 2019Women wrote Fleabag & Derry Girls. But men dominate
Placing a handful of successful female writers with hit shows on a pedestal only masks the problem of gender bias.
Lisa Holdsworth, The Guardian, 5th March 2019Derry Girls interviews
"We get free blow-dries whenever we want. It's crackin'"
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 5th March 2019Lisa McGee's rumbustious rabble return for a second series set against the backdrop of the Troubles. You expect chaos when you hear the words "Outdoor pursuits weekend" and not even Sister Michael can put to a stop to the high jinks when the (Catholic) girls are billeted with a bunch of Protestant boys.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 5th March 2019Comedies up for RTS Awards 2019
The nominees for the RTS Awards 2019 include Famalam, Detectorists and Derry Girls. Lesley Manville, Sian Gibson, Daisy May Cooper, Samson Kayo and the stars of Inside No. 9 and The Young Offenders are nominated for acting prizes.
British Comedy Guide, 5th March 2019How Derry Girls tells the true story of Derry
A hit Channel 4 comedy about a group of teenagers in 1990s Derry is transforming how the city is viewed around the world. Ben Kelly, born and bred there, explains the hype.
Ben Kelly, The Independent, 5th March 2019Lisa McGee: We can never, ever go back to violence here
Creator Lisa McGee says that if there's one thing she learned from writing Derry Girls it's that we would be crazy to jeopardise peace in Northern Ireland.
Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 5th March 2019