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.
Lola Petticrew is no stranger to the screen. With a breakout performance as iconic as DATING AMBER, they have quickly made a name for themselves as one of Ireland’s up and coming actors. Lola Petticrew talks about their newest film WOLF where they star alongside George MacKay, Lily-Rose Depp and Fionn O’Shea which tackles treatment for species dysmorphia.
The DERRY GIRLS Season 3 trailer has been released! Created and written by Lisa McGee, the show follows a group of Northern Irish teens and their families in 1990s Derry, who always find ways to amuse themselves and get on with their lives despite a divided political atmosphere. In series three, there’s hope in the air that The Troubles may finally be over, but the group’s troubles are only just getting started as they get ever closer to adulthood.
HOLDING, a new 4-part tv show based on the book by chat-show host Graham Norton, airs this week. Human remains are discovered in a small, quiet village in West Cork, Ireland, while local builders are demolishing a farmhouse that belonged to the Burke family. It seems that the villagers – including the fiancee jilted at the altar by Tommy, the son of the house, as well as the woman he was seeing on the side – now have an answer as to how, if not precisely why, he disappeared on his wedding eve 20 years ago.
Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama AN CAILíN CIúIN was the big film winner at last night’s Irish Film and Television Academy awards with eight wins. Director Colm Bairéad’s debut won best film, best director and lead actress for Catherine Clinch in addition to multiple craft awards. Bairéad also won the rising star prize. The coming-of-age drama had debuted at the Berlin Film Festival where it won two prizes. The virtual event was hosted by Deirdre O’Kane whose routine included a nod to Ukrainian president, and fellow comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Chris Pine, Colin Farrell, Michael Moore, Roma Downey and Fionnula Flanagan were among other guests presenting awards.