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Comedies to Cure Your Derry Girls Withdrawal TV Deputy Editor, Lily Casson, recommends some top female-led comedy shows to keep you ticking over until season two of Derry Girls.

Derry Girls was a sleeper hit, launching unexpectedly into the stratosphere of tender, witty new comedy (it’s almost as if TV is finally realising women can be funny). Set in the early ‘90s, the series follows Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) and … Continue reading Comedies to Cure Your Derry Girls Withdrawal TV Deputy Editor, Lily Casson, recommends some top female-led comedy shows to keep you ticking over until season two of Derry Girls.

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All The TV You Didn’t See in 2017 Lily Casson tells you what's worth going back for.

Howard’s End E.M. Forster’s novel Howard’s End, about a trio of unconventional, wealthy orphan siblings and their collision with the more traditionalist ways of their sister’s fiancé and his family, receives a four-part miniseries in the first major adaptation of … Continue reading All The TV You Didn’t See in 2017 Lily Casson tells you what’s worth going back for.

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Aye, it’s pure class: ‘Derry Girls’, an unlikely smash hit for Channel 4 As we reach the season one halfway point of Channel 4’s unlikely smash hit, how’s Derry Girls living up to the initial rave reviews?

The North is plagued by wincing and unrealistic representations. With Rupert Grint and Robert Sheehan butchering a Belfast brogue in the 2008 film Cherrybomb, and conflict saturated dramas such as Fifty Dead Men Walking dominating the screens, there doesn’t seem … Continue reading Aye, it’s pure class: ‘Derry Girls’, an unlikely smash hit for Channel 4 As we reach the season one halfway point of Channel 4’s unlikely smash hit, how’s Derry Girls living up to the initial rave reviews?