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: 208
Press clippings Page 21
Derry Girls writer reveals why show's a hit with Scots
The show's creator says although its success astonished her, she wasn't surprised Scots loved it.
Brian McIver, Daily Record, 25th August 2018Derry Girls wins Edinburgh TV Festival comedy award
Derry Girls has won the Edinburgh Television Festival Award for comedy. Rachel Parris is named Best Breakthrough Talent.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd August 2018Derry Girls named Radio Times comedy champion
The result was a nail-biting one, with Derry Girls taking the title with 50.1% of the vote to Inside No 9's 49.9%.
Radio Times, 31st July 2018Comedies nominated in British Screenwriters' Awards
The nominations for the British Screenwriters' Awards 2018 features the writers of Famalam, Timewasters, Derry Girls, Sick Note and Motherland.
British Comedy Guide, 18th July 2018Edinburgh TV Festival Awards nominations announced
Nominees for the 2018 Edinburgh TV Awards have been announced. The End Of The F***ing World, Daniel Lawrence Taylor and This Country's Daisy and Charlie Cooper are amongst those shortlisted.
British Comedy Guide, 20th June 2018Why we love the comedy of failure
Failure, in short, is funny. And it's not simply a case of schadenfreude, either.
Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 10th April 2018Meet the dramedy queens
Derry Girls, Catastrophe, Insecure ... shut out of serious drama, women have turned comedy on its head - playing raw female experience for laughs, sobs and gasps.
Joy Press, The Guardian, 5th March 2018Derry Girls is the biggest series in Northern Ireland
Derry Girls has consolidated (taking account of time-shifted viewing on a television over a seven day period) to become the biggest series ever in Northern Ireland, since modern records began in 2002.
Channel 4, 21st February 201813 modern TV comedies set in the 80s and 90s
Here are thirteen other modern TV comedies set in the recent past...
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 16th February 2018How Derry Girls became an instant sitcom classic
Lisa McGee's nostalgic sitcom finished its run on Channel 4 last week. Why did this tale of four schoolgirls, set against the tumult of 90s Northern Ireland, strike such a chord?
Shilpa Ganatra, The Guardian, 13th February 2018