Lisa McGee has opened up about her upcoming new show, 'How To Get To Heaven From Belfast'.
This new series has been described by the Derry Girls creator as "very Irish, and very ridiculous", ahead of its upcoming release on February 12, running as an eight part series, which explores three friends who come home from a funeral and find themselves shrouded in mystery.
Speaking in a recent interview, McGee said: "I'm so grateful if people think of me as a comedy writer, and they're not just saying "Oh she's not funny".
"I love that, and I love comedy, and there's a lot of comedy in this, but I also love mystery, and that's always been the big ambition for me personally, to write a murder mystery or something like that", she added. "So I just thought, I'll do it my way. Do you know it'll be very Irish, very ridiculous, and very female led".
McGee also revealed that she had started writing this new show during the third series of Derry Girls.
"I started writing it after, like during the prep for Derry Girls three so, and then I kind of shelved it and came back to it after that was all done, so I had the idea a long time ago, wrote the pilot a long time ago, and then sort of brought it out and wrote the rest of it about maybe two years ago", she explained.
"Then we shot it. So it feels like both an eternity and five minutes, if you know what I mean".
Lisa McGee was speaking at a special screening in Belfast at the Queen's Film Theatre in front of 200 guests, which also included actor James Nesbitt.
This is a venue which is quite special for McGee, having studied at Queen's herself.
"I went to Queens. I actually studied in the QFT here", she said. "I studied film and so it's gorgeous to do it [the show's premiere] here. It's really special".
How To Get To Heaven From Belfast will air on Netflix from February 12.
The trailer for the show, which stars Sinéad Keenan, Roísín Gallagher, and Caoilfhionn Dunne, arrived last month. Check that out and Ireland's Classic Hits Radio's report on it here.
