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.
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Derry Girls, episode 1 review
As much a black comedy about the Troubles as a teenage nostalgia fest.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 4th January 2018Derry Girls preview
'Sometimes the toughest places to live are also the funniest'.
Sarah Hughes, i Newspaper, 1st January 2018Tiernan's new C4 comedy has an Inbetweeners feel to it
It's the role Tommy Tiernan was born to play.
Michael Lanigan, JOE, 15th December 2017Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls reveals plot and casting
Saoirse Jackson, Tommy Tiernan and Ian McElhinney are amongst the stars for Derry Girls, the new Channel 4 sitcom set around The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
British Comedy Guide, 21st June 2017Tommy Tiernan returns to sitcom in Derry Girls
Apart from Howler, a pilot that he wrote, directed and starred in as part of Sky's Little Crackers strand of shorts in 2012, Derry Girls is Tiernan's first sitcom since the much-maligned Small Potatoes ended in 2001 after two series.
Chortle, 19th June 2017Channel 4 orders 1990s Northern Ireland sitcom
Channel 4 has commissioned a sitcom set in Northern Ireland in 1994.
British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2016