DERRY GIRLS may be coming to a conclusion, but writer Lisa McGee says she refuses to rule out a return to the comedy in the form of a film at some point in the future. McGee said her immediate thoughts about the show was that it had come to an end and the characters had been taken to “where we wanted to take them”.
GAME OF THRONES changed Conleth Hill’s life forever. But of course the world keeps spinning even after you’ve appeared in the biggest TV smashes of all time. And for the Co Antrim-raised actor that next chapter has involved crossing the length of Ireland to star in an adaptation of Graham Norton’s 2016 small-town murder mystery, HOLDING.
OTHER VOICES is finally returning to Irish television screens on April 14th, primed and ready to celebrate its twentieth series. The show will run for six weeks on RTÉ2 and will be packed with exclusive interviews and performances from the world’s most exciting musical stars. Annie MacManus, MayKay, and Huw Stephens will also be returning as hosts. Week one kicks off with Irish superstar Dermot Kennedy, RTÉ Choice Music Prize nominee Orla Gartland, and Dublin rock band Sprints.
If you thought BRIDGERTON’S Irish newcomer Calam Lynch looked familar then you’re not the only one. The 27-year-old has previously starred in Ireland’s favourite comedy, DERRY GIRLS alongside Nicola Coughlan who plays Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton. He has also starred in World War I film Dunkirk and Disney’s Black Beauty as George Winthorp.
Channel 4 has confirmed that DERRY GIRLS season 3 will return April 12th, reuniting us with the whole gang for the third and final time. Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle and the ‘wee English fella’ James will all return in the 1990s-set Northern Irish comedy, following a DERRY GIRLS season 3 trailer showing the girls and James all enjoying their final school days.
Jamie Dornan has given Kelly Clarkson an Irish seaweed dish as a gift while appearing on her talk show. The Northern Irish actor appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show to chat about his new TV show THE TOURIST. It’s not the first time the actor has brought a Northern Irish delicacy onto an American chat show. Earlier this month he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel live where he prepared a “Tayto smashie sandwich.”
Set in Eden, a fictional town in the Karoo, Tannie Maria, played by Maria Doyle Kennedy (THE COMMITMENTS, THE TUDORS, DEXTER, OUTLANDER and ORPHAN BLACK) is renowned for her delicious food, the recipes of which she shares in her column in the local newspaper, The Gazette. When the cash-strapped publication decides to axe her column in favour of an Agony Aunt column, Tannie Maria volunteers to do it.
Irish actress Charlie Murphy is set to star in a new show on Netflix which centres around a dangerous love triangle. The LOVE/HATE star will play the role of Anna Barton, who embarks on a secret affair with her soon to be father-in-law, William, played by Richard Armitage. The three-part series is an adaptation of the 1991 novella by the same name from late author Josephine Hart, according to The Hollywood Reporter.