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THE UPCOMING THIRD of series hit TV show Derry Girls will be the final run of the show.
Series writer and creator Lisa McGee confirmed in a tweet this afternoon that she is “proud of everything it’s achieved” but that it was “always the plan” to end it after three series.
The show has been a critical and commercial success for Channel 4 and production company Hat Trick Productions. It has won several awards and also gained an international following after being picked up by Netflix.
The show follows four teenage girls (and one teenage boy)in Derry in the 1990s and takes in the period prior to and following the Troubles’ ceasefires.
The show has been hailed for both its comedy and its portrayal of the social changes of the period. So much so that a large mural of the main characters was painted in the centre of the city in 2019.
Here is McGee’s statement announcing the end of the show:
It was always the plan to say goodbye after three series. Derry Girls is a coming of age story; following five ridiculous teenagers as they slowly…very slowly… start to become adults, while around them the place they call home starts to change too and Northern Ireland enters a new more hopeful phase – which was a small, magical window of time.Derry Girls is a love letter to the place I come from and the people who shaped me. It has been an honour to write it and I will be forever proud of everything it’s achieved.I’d like to thank the people of Derry and Northern Ireland for getting behind us. Thanks also to the team behind the series, the incredible Hat Trick productions and a special thanks to Channel 4 – the channel I grew up watching; the channel that made me want to write comedy and the only channel that could have made our show.
Who knows if Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle and James will return in some other guise someday, but for now this is it for us and we’re excited to start filming this series with our incredible cast and crew to hopefully take our loyal fans on one last adventure.
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Is this the guy that openly admitted that he murdered policemen, Serbs, Albanians that did not cooperate, etc? The guy who had something like 18 witnesses against him, out of which 16 all of a sudden caught a terminal case of death? :)
This Hague tribunal is becoming more and more like a Muppet Show. The only difference is that real people, with real families, real victims are suffering for the past 20 years because of this bunch of Muppets playing judges.
According to Amnesty International an estimated 800 non-Albanians were allegedly abducted and murdered by members of the KLA and to date very few of those suspected of criminal responsibility for these abductions have been prosecuted in Kosovo. In this instance, most of Harandinaj and his two pals from the Kosovo Liberation Army were accused of atrocities against Serb, Albanian and Roma civilians in 1998, the majority of the murdered vicims were ironically (for those celebrating in Pristina tonight) ethnic Albanians.
I agree with you Dragutin. The Hague is a tool of the West. That man is a criminal who should be locked up. But then again, he was never going to be found guilty. The US has its biggest base our used the US on Kosovo, one of the rewards it got for supporting Kosovo independence.
Bush, Blair and a good many other Western leaders should have been tried by the Hague but they never were.
If you suggested this in Western media you would be ridiculed. They caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent through unjust sanctions abs am even more criminal war.
Agree completely, Bill Clinton is a war criminal but he gets the red carpet treatment and lived like a celebrity
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