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: 190
Press clippings Page 19
Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 winners revealed
The public have voted Derry Girls as Best New TV Sitcom in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018, with Inside No. 9 named Comedy Of The Year 2018 for the second year running. Other winners include Friday Night Dinner, Taskmaster and Vic & Bob's Big Night Out.
British Comedy Guide, 4th February 2019Derry Girls mural in Derry is finished
The giant artwork takes pride of place in Derry's city centre.
Flora Carr, Radio Times, 28th January 2019Mural of characters in hit series unveiled
As the Channel 4 comedy prepares to return for a second series, a tribute to the girls has been painted on a wall in Northern Ireland.
Laura Martin, i Newspaper, 28th January 2019Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 shortlist
The shortlisted TV and radio shows for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 have been announced. 60 programmes are now in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title.
British Comedy Guide, 21st January 2019Derry Girls captures teenage girlhood everywhere
Many shows about teens don't push past cliches - but Derry Girls gives us complex, unpredictable characters who are never completely in control.
Nadine von Cohen, The Guardian, 19th January 201913 utterly charming British comedies on Netflix
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Refinery 29, 15th January 2019The first series of Lisa McGee's Derry Girls was a monster of a show - Channel 4's biggest new comedy in five years. A classic sitcom premise married to some timely 1990s nostalgia, where all the teens-go-mad action was flanked by the constant shadow of the Troubles. It's such a perfect formula that a second series cannot feasibly disappoint.
Lanre Bakare, Gwilym Mumford and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 2nd January 2019The surprise hit of the sitcom year came from writer Lisa McGee, whose rampaging teens in Northern Ireland in the 1990s had all the reckless energy of the best coming-of-age comedies and, as a distinctive backdrop, the Troubles. Bombings, checkpoints and stories about someone's uncle being tied to a radiator by the IRA added an extra note of absurdity, although McGee's scripts were too smart and agile to belittle the anguish of the times.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 28th December 2018Review 2018: Top TV 2018
I don't know what it says about the times we are living in but comedy seems to have slipped into all sorts of programmes this year. I've kept my choices to more traditional comedies.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th December 2018Katya, "a child of Chernobyl", comes to stay in Derry. "They've come over to give their wee lungs a bit of a clear out," says a priest, who just about nails the off-key approach that most of the residents of Derry have towards their new visitors. Katya turns out to be more than capable of dealing with her new hosts, but it is the family's reaction to grandad's new relationship with Maev (they winked at each other at mass) that captures the essence of what made Lisa McGee's comedy one of the best of 2018.
Lanre Bakare, The Guardian, 19th December 2018