It would have been easy for Lisa McGee to follow Derry Girls with something similar — perhaps a sequel set today. And in some ways, that's exactly what she's done. The eccentric trio in How To Get To ...

The creator of Derry Girls, Lisa McGee, has a new show to cure your February blues. Amid the never-ending rain in the UK, Netflix has released How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, a new comedy crime ...

Like McGee herself and the titular “Derry Girls” inspired by her upbringing, Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher), Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) and Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne) are alumnae of an all-girls Catholic school ...

A charmer on social media called me an unrepeatable name after I expressed misgivings over the finale of Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls, which, at the very last moment, lost its footing and was swept away ...

Sinead Keenan, Caoilfhionn Dunne and Roisin Gallagher play friends who begin to suspect something is suspicious about an old chum's death. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic It’s a good time ...

From Lisa McGee—creator of the hit show Derry Girls—How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is the latest addition to the pantheon of Irish entertainment, right behind Hamnet’s award run and Maura Higgins’ ...

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In truth, though, it’s hard to imagine the characters in How To Get To Heaven From Belfast awarded a similar artistic rendering in the Northern Irish city, or anywhere else. A convoluted, blackly ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How do you follow a smash hit like Derry Girls? That sitcom, about a group of school friends growing up in the ...

Belfast's Assembly Rooms are to be helped with a share of more than £5m from an international organisation that preserves historic sites. Vacant since 2000, the Assembly Rooms is a grade B1 listed ...

10:53, Thu, Feb 5, 2026 Updated: 10:59, Thu, Feb 5, 2026 How to Get to Heaven From Belfast is tipped to become one of Netflix's most popular new series of 2026, with viewers eager to discover more ...