‘Sometimes you have to blow things up!’ Derry Girl Lisa McGee on her explosive new show – and why she hates London

After plundering her tearaway teens for the comedy classic, Lisa McGee is back with a hilarious Scooby-Doo-style caper. As How to Get to Heaven from Belfast hits our screens, she explains why the craic’s about to get deadlyHow do you follow up a show about girls in Derry? With one about women in Belfast, obviously. That’s what Lisa McGee has done. Her new eight-parter, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, is as far away from Derry Girls as you can get when the distance between the worlds amounts to 70 miles along the A6.Or as she puts it: “I wanted a shit, female, Northern Irish A-Team!” Continue reading...


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