Lisa McGee. Credit: Channel 4 Television Corporation
Lisa McGee

Lisa McGee

  • Northern Irish
  • Writer and executive producer

Press clippings

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast moves to Netflix

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, the new series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, has moved to Netflix from Channel 4.

Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15th March 2024

Derry Girls creator: Off-screen gender gap in TV is depressing

Lisa McGee says male writers dominate most genres.

Alex Farber, The Times, 28th December 2023

Edinburgh TV Awards winners revealed

Rosie Jones, Derry Girls, Jamie Demetriou and Graham Norton have been named as winners in the 2023 Edinburgh TV Festival's awards.

British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2023

Lisa McGee gets Channel 4 comedy mystery thriller series

Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee has landed a new comedy thriller series with Channel 4, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd August 2023

Lisa McGee and Adam Kay win BAFTA writing awards

Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and This Is Going To Hurt creator Adam Kay have won awards for writing at the Bafta Craft Awards 2023.

British Comedy Guide, 24th April 2023

Derry Girls and stars of Am I Being Unreasonable? amongst RTS winners

Derry Girls, Brassic, Friday Night Live and Dodger picked up prizes at the The Royal Television Society Awards. There were also trophies for Lenny Rush, Daisy May Cooper, Ambika Mod and Lisa McGee.

British Comedy Guide, 29th March 2023

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2022 results

Derry Girls, This Is Going To Hurt actors Ambika Mod and Ben Whishaw and Big Boys writer Jack Rooke are amongst the winners of the 49th annual BPG Awards.

British Comedy Guide, 24th March 2023

BAFTA TV Awards 2023 nominations

Am I Being Unreasonable?, Big Boys, Derry Girls and Ghosts are amongst the nominees for the BAFTA Television Awards 2023.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2023

RTS award nominations revealed

Shortlists for the 2023 RTS Programme Awards have been announced, with Am I Being Unreasonable? picking up four nominations.

British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2023

Big Boys, Derry Girls, Man Vs Bee and Motherland up for BPG Awards

Big Boys, Derry Girls, Man Vs Bee and Motherland are amongst the nominees for the 49th Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

British Comedy Guide, 23rd February 2023