EXCLUSIVE: In a really aggressive scenario, 20th Television an FX have gained Wildwood, the newest undertaking from BAFTA Award-winning Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and her first set exterior of the UK.
A religious successor to Derry Girls, which is a couple of group of adlescent Irish schoolgirls within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, Wildwood is ready in the summertime of 2000 and follows a gaggle of Irish faculty women who descend on the neon playground that’s Wildwood, New Jersey. They’ve no cash, no visas, no plan, no clue.
The comedy has been put into improvement, with McGee as creator and govt producer.
McGee has been on Carolyn Cassidy’s want checklist of creators to work with for some time, and 20th Television’s EVP Development is credited with pursuing the Irish TV writer-playwright and serving to get Wildwood for the studio, with FX because the community companion.
McGee’s semi-autobiographical 2018 collection Derry Girls marked Channel 4’s largest comedy launch since 2004. It ran for 3 seasons and scored Best Comedy wins on the BAFTAs, International Emmys and the Irish Film and Television Awards.
Additionally, McGee curated and wrote an episode of the 2022 BBC anthology collection Skint and created/co-created The Deceived for Channel 5, London Rush for Channel 4, Raw for Ireland’s RTÉ and, most just lately, How To Get to Heaven From Belfast, which launched on Netflix in February.
McGee has written episodes of C4’s Indian Summers, BBC1/Starz’s The White Queen and BBC3’s BAFTA-winning Being Human. Her performs embrace Jump!, which was tailored as a 2012 film, and Girls and Dolls, a Stewart Parker Award Winner. McGee is repped by CAA and United Agents.
