DERRY GIRLS creator Lisa McGee has won a best writer gong for the hit Channel 4 programme at the Bafta Television Craft Awards. The show follows a group of teenagers as they grow up in her hometown of Derry during the Troubles. McGee affectionately calls them a group of ‘eejits’ with the show loosely based on her own experiences while studying at Thornhill College. DERRY GIRLS was also recently nominated for most memorable moment at the Bafta TV awards which will take place on May 14. The annual Bafta TV craft awards celebrates the very best behind-the-scenes television talent of 2022.

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Lisa McGee’s Northern Irish hit comedy DERRY GIRLS has been crowned champion of the Best Comedy Programme category at the Broadcast Awards 2023. The show also picked up the award for TV Moment of the Year at this year’s ceremony. “The show is comedy genius on every level,” said one judge, with another noting the consistently strong performances from the entire cast. McGee’s writing and ability to create “loveable, funny characters who you grow to love as friends” was another highlight for the judges, alongside the show’s “belly laughs with a strong political core”.

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The actor and presenter on saying goodbye to DERRY GIRLS, her role in Disney’s new superhero comedy EXTRAORDINARY, and why she’s been given her own ‘infant’ table on POTTERY THROW DOWN. The Cork-born actress also discusses the possibility of a Sister Michael spin-off, the potential privatization of Channel 4 and how a feminine spirit has returned to Ireland.

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DERRY GIRLS creator Lisa McGee has vowed to continue to write about the “place I come from, the place I love” as she received the freedom of the city. The writer was awarded the freedom of Derry City and Strabane at a ceremony this week. Ms McGee becomes the first woman to receive the council’s highest honour. It is an “honour and a privilege” to be recognised in a city “steeped in story and full of storytellers,” she said.

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