Lisa McGee, creator and writer of the hit Netflix show Derry Girls, is working on a new series set for Channel 4 and Hat Trick Productions titled How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. Derry Girls, a British teen sitcom set in the 1990s, has been given an impressive 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. According to Deadline, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast “represents a rare collaboration between Channel 4’s comedy and drama departments and comes from a storied UK indie Hat Trick Productions, the maker of Masterminds and Have I got News For You. Derry Girls creatives Liz Lewin and Caroline Leddy are exec-ing.”

McGee’s new show is an eight-part series that will follow three friends, Saoirse, Robyn, and Dara, who are from the Northern Irish capital. The show features the friends in their late-thirties as they get word of the death of an old classmate they were once close with named Greta. The three attend Greta’s wake, and soon find themselves in the middle of a thrilling mystery. Via Deadline, McGee stated, “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 from Channel 4 expressed his excitement about How to Get to Heaven from Belfast to join the public broadcast television channel sharing that it is the extraordinary show’s spiritual home.

Derry Girls ended in 2022 after three successful seasons and was Channel 4’s most popular comedy show in years, winning three BAFTAs for its third and final season. One of those BAFTAs went to McGee and another for Best Scripted Comedy, which again included McGee as she wrote for the show. The show ended after just three seasons to fans’ disappointment, but McGee announced in 2021 she never intended the show to last forever. Just one year after the final season of Derry Girls, McGee is ready to show the world what she has next to offer to television.

Casting for McGee’s anticipated new show has yet to be announced.