Have been you devastated when Derry Ladies ended? Don’t fear, as Lisa McGee has an entire new comedy collection within the works, and it sounds superb!
The brand new present is titled How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, and is about to land on Channel 4, and follows a gaggle of buddies, Saoirse, Robyn and Dara, and their lives of their 30s. Sounds slightly like if the Derry Ladies gang grew up, proper? However wait, there’s extra!
The official synopsis reads: “The eight-part comedy collection will comply with Saoirse, Robyn and Dara who’ve been buddies since faculty. Now of their late 30s, they lead very totally different lives. Saoirse a profitable author with a compulsion to hit the self-destruct button, Robyn, a sweary, stressed-out mom of three younger boys, and Dara, a full-time carer of an aged father or mother, who hasn’t managed to maneuver out of her teenage bed room.
© Picture: Channel 4“When the ladies every obtain an electronic mail informing them of the demise of Greta, an previous classmate they have been as soon as very shut with, there’s clearly some unstated, unfinished enterprise. The buddies determine to attend Greta’s wake and uncover all is probably not fairly because it appears. They quickly discover themselves embroiled in a darkish and twisted thriller. It’s completely terrifying. But it surely’s additionally…. completely thrilling.
“These girls are about to embark on probably the most thrilling journey of their lives. An journey that can take them from their native Belfast, a metropolis stuffed with ghosts, the ache of the previous plastered on each mural, to the mythic wildness of rural Donegal and proper throughout Eire, as they try and put the items of the puzzle collectively and uncover the reality. Even when their very own sophisticated, chaotic and messy lives typically get in the way in which. Not a lot a ‘whodunit’ as a ‘what the hell occurred.’”
© Picture: Channel 4Chatting concerning the new present, Lisa mentioned: “I really feel so extremely fortunate to be making one other present for the exceptional Channel 4 and to be doing it with Hat Trick Productions once more and the inventive group behind Derry Ladies, the mighty Liz Lewin and Caroline Leddy, is only a dream. I’ve wished to make a comedy thriller set in Northern Eire for SUCH a very long time. I can’t wait to share these flawed humorous girls with everybody.”
© Picture: Channel 4Charlie Perkins, Head of Comedy at Channel 4 added: “That is enormous. We couldn’t be prouder that Channel 4 seems like this extraordinary present’s non secular residence. Attending to know the multi-hyphenated skills of Lisa, Liz, Caroline and their collaborators at Hat Trick Productions has been one of many best pleasures in my first 12 months as Head of Comedy. We will’t wait to carry Lisa’s subsequent world to life for all those that already love her work and lots of extra to return.”
