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
Press clippings Page 5
Derry Girls effect boosts Northern Irish talent at Edinburgh fringe
Record number of NI performers at this year's festival, with C4 comedy hailed for raising awareness of nation's comic gifts.
Rachel Hall, The Guardian, 2nd August 2022Lisa McGee: Derry Girls writer to be awarded freedom of city
Derry City and Strabane District Council has voted unanimously to award Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee the freedom of the city.
BBC, 1st July 2022Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee proposed for freedom of city
The creator of Derry Girls has been proposed for the freedom of the city.
Rebecca Black, The Irish News, 24th June 2022Derry Girls' Baby Anna star Zoe Brown, 4, diagnosed with leukaemia
The youngster and her twin Sophie played Erin Quinn's little sister in the hit Channel 4 sitcom.
Jamie Downham, The Sun, 18th June 2022E4 to launch a spin-off channel showing comedy repeats
The launch of E4 Extra from June 29 will free the main digital channel to concentrate on the reality and dating formats that have come to define it. Repeats of The Inbetweeners and Derry Girls will all run on the new channel.
Chortle, 13th June 2022Derry Girls isn't the new Father Ted, it's better
Perhaps inevitably, the last season of Derry Girls drew comparisons to '90s show Father Ted. After all, they're both Irish comedies, commissioned by Channel 4, that use a small community of broad stereotypes for social commentary and well-meaning jokes about pre-internet life. But after that, the similarities grow thin, and when taken on their own merit each represents something quite different.
Anthony McGlynn, The Digital Fix, 1st June 2022Dylan Llewelyn reveals hopes for Erin and James after finale
Dylan Llewelyn has looked back on the show's unexpected romance between his character James and Erin.
Stefania Sarrubba, Digital Spy, 30th May 2022Derry Girls is a perfect period piece that transcends time and place
Being a "Derry Girl" is a state of mind.
Emily Kavanagh, Collider, 29th May 2022Derry Girls: how it shifted the experiences of teenage girls to centre stage
We don't often hear about daily life for girls and women during this period. The writer Eli Davies makes it clear how such stories are "often flattened out by mainstream conflict narratives". These tend to centre narratives about paramilitaries, politicians and the British military - all predominantly men. Derry Girls gloriously upended these conventions by putting Northern Irish girls firmly centre stage.
Alison Garden, The Conversation, 26th May 2022Meet the York student who has written her dissertation on Derry Girls
With the last ever episode airing last week, the hype around Derry Girls at the minute has been real. But one final year York student has taken this one step further and written her undergrad dissertation on the iconic show.
Emily Smith, The Tab, 25th May 2022