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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

How To Get to Heaven From Belfast: inside the bonkers new show from the creator of Derry Girls

When Lisa McGee was in the middle of writing Derry Girls’ third season, Covid struck. The world shut down – and so did filming for the last season of the beloved comedy series.

At a loss for what to do, McGee’s brain got to work. “I had this idea and I wrote a pilot in the gap when I couldn't do anything on Derry Girls and kind of just put it away,” she tells me.

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