Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, the Derry Girls – Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland) and their friends Clare (Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell) – are back in the third and final season of Channel 4’s teen sitcom, which also streams on Netflix.
Derry Girls was created by Lisa McGee and is set in Northern Ireland in the ‘90s, when the decades-long strife known as “The Troubles,” was finally coming to an end. McGee mined her own experience during the time to develop the story.
Besides the core cast, the series also stars Dylan Llewellyn as Michelle’s English cousin, James, as well as Tara Lynne O’Neill, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Leah O’Rourke, Siobhán McSweeney, Ian McElhinney, Tommy Tierman, Kevin McAleer, Peter Campion and more.
The show was commissioned for Channel 4 by director of programs Ian Katz, head of comedy Fiona McDermott and commissioning editors Jack Bayles and Laura Riseam. Caroline Leddy, Liz Lewin, Jimmy Mulville and McGee are executive producers with Brian Falconer producing and Michael Lennox directing.
Channel 4 has not yet set a debut date for the series.
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