Channel 4 announces twisted new show from creator of HUGE comedy series
CHANNEL 4 has announced they will be filming a dark and twisted new mystery series.
The creators of Derry Girls and Channel 4 have unveiled details about their new comedy-thriller show, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast.
Derry Girls fans were devastated after the show ended once season three finished airing in 2022, but Lisa McGee has another twisted comedic surprise lined up for show fans titled How To Get To Heaven From Belfast.
When Lisa was asked about the upcoming show, she said: “I feel so incredibly lucky to be making another show for the phenomenal Channel 4 and to be doing it with Hat Trick Productions again.
“And the creative team behind Derry Girls, the mighty Liz Lewin and Caroline Leddy, is just a dream. I’ve wanted to make a comedy thriller set in Northern Ireland for SUCH a long time.
“I cannot wait to share these flawed, funny women with everyone.”
Charlie Perkins, Head of Comedy at Channel 4, has anticipated bringing ‘Lisa’s next world to life’ and is proud to work on this ‘huge’ project with the successful screenwriter.
He has witnessed Lisa’s ‘multi-hyphenated talents’ and called it ‘one of the greatest pleasures’ for him as the newly appointed head of comedy.
The new show is set to land on Channel 4 soon, and just like the Derry Girls follows a group of close friends called Saoirse, Robyn and Dara as they live through their trials and tribulations while in their thirties.
The official synopsis read: “The eight-part comedy series will follow Saoirse, Robyn and Dara, who have been friends since school. Now in their late 30s, they lead very different lives.
“Saoirse, a successful writer with a compulsion to hit the self-destruct button, Robyn, a sweary, stressed-out mother of three young boys, and Dara, a full-time carer of an elderly parent, who hasn’t managed to move out of her teenage bedroom.”
“When the women each receive an email informing them of the death of Greta, an old classmate they were once very close with, there’s clearly some unspoken, unfinished business.
“The friends decide to attend Greta’s wake and discover all may not be quite as it seems.
“They soon find themselves embroiled in a dark and twisted mystery. It’s absolutely terrifying. But it’s also…. utterly thrilling.”
“These women are about to embark on the most exciting adventure of their lives.
“An adventure that will take them from their native Belfast, a city full of ghosts, the pain of the past plastered on every mural, to the mythic wildness of rural Donegal and right across Ireland, as they attempt to put the pieces of the puzzle together and uncover the truth.
“Even if their own complicated, chaotic and messy lives often get in the way. Not so much a ‘whodunit’ as a ‘what the hell happened.'”
Production and Channel 4 have yet to confirm release dates.
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