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: 157
Press clippings
The Office named top landmark comedy of the last 50 years
The Office was the highest-placed comedy in a Broadcasting Press Guild list of the top 50 landmark programmes of the last 50 years.
British Comedy Guide, 13th March 2024I am not an elderly white man. But you'd think so from my taste in TV comedy
Rising Damp, Only Fools And Horses, The Morecambe And Wise Show... I love them all, even though they haven't aged well.
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, The Guardian, 13th March 2024Siobhán McSweeney: Extraordinary rise of Derry Girls' Sister Michael
Siobhán McSweeney, who feared being typecast after her hilarious role as a grumpy nun, talks about making her first short film and starring in a Disney sitcom.
Lauren Murphy, The Sunday Times, 10th March 2024'Great sitcoms are missing from our TV screens and our lives - we need them in these times'
Even if "we're all doomed" under the Tories, as Dad's Army's Pte Frazer would say, shows like George And Mildred, Are You Being Served?, Robin's Nest and Three's Company still make us laugh.
Siobhan McNally, The Mirror, 24th January 2024Dylan Llewellyn: "Before Derry Girls was a really tough period for me"
Dylan Llewellyn says he's "just going with the flow" at the moment, but the flow is definitely moving in his favour.
Nick Levine, NME, 18th January 2024Derry Girls final season wins International Emmy Comedy Award
The third and final series of Derry Girls has won a coveted International Emmy award for comedy. The Channel 4 comedy series won the International Emmy for Comedy alongside Netflix special Vir Das: Landing, which first aired in 2022.
BBC, 21st November 2023Derry Girls make surprise appearance at Fatboy Slim gig
Derry Girls Saoirse-Monica Jackson and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell made a surprise appearance during a Fatboy Slim gig.
BBC, 23rd October 2023Have I Got News For You producer Hat Trick banks record profits
The TV production company behind Have I Got News For You and Mastermind made record profits last year, new accounts show. Hat Trick Productions, led by former stand-up comedian Jimmy Mulville, benefited from successful shows such as Derry Girls, with accounts for Hat Trick Holdings (2019) revealing total revenues of £50.3million in 2022, up 15 per cent, and record profits of £5.3million. The company, owned by Mulville and his wife, Karen, paid out dividends of £2.7million.
William Turvill, The Sunday Times, 1st October 2023Jamie-Lee O'Donnell interview
Jamie-Lee O'Donnell on being skint, Derry Girls, and her prison drama Screw: 'For so long I was told my Derry accent was too strong, too working class'.
Ellie Harrison, The Independent, 27th August 2023Derry Girls: Inspiration for Michelle returns to acting
Michelle was one of the breakout characters from the award-winning series Derry Girls - now, after more than twenty years, her real-life inspiration is returning to her first love of acting.
Elaine McGee, BBC, 26th August 2023