'A private Channel 4 wouldn't make this show' says Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson
Derry Girls, which first aired on Channel 4 in 2018, follows four teenage girls - and "a wee English fella" - growing up in Derry in Northern Ireland during the 1990s.
that lasted almost 30 years between the 1960s and 1990s, and cost the lives of more than 3,500 people.Derry Girls has been a massive success for Channel 4, winning Royal Television Society Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards and being nominated for BAFTAs. "How Lisa [McGee], the writer, has done it, through the eyes of a teenage girl, brings such an innocence and naivety to it and I think with that brings more truth, it gets people on board and it's just really clever."Talking about the new season, Saoirse-Monica says she believes the show gets "that epic finale that we were wanting".
"I don't think you can ever really process something like that until you have hindsight on it," she adds.
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