49 minutes ago
EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitory situation, 20th Television an FX person won Wildwood, nan latest task from BAFTA Award-winning Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee — and her first group extracurricular of nan UK.
A belief successor to Derry Girls, which is astir a group of teen Irish schoolgirls successful nan mid-1990s, Wildwood is group successful nan summertime of 2000 and follows a group of Irish assemblage girls who descend connected nan neon playground that is Wildwood, New Jersey. They’ve nary money, nary visas, nary plan, nary clue.
The drama has been put into development, pinch McGee arsenic creator and executive producer.
McGee has been connected Carolyn Cassidy’s wish database of creators to activity pinch for awhile, and 20th Television’s EVP of Development is credited pinch pursuing nan Irish TV writer-playwright and helping get Wildwood for nan studio, pinch FX arsenic nan web partner.
McGee’s semi-autobiographical 2018 bid Derry Girls marked Channel 4’s biggest drama motorboat since 2004. It ran for 3 seasons and scored Best Comedy wins astatine nan BAFTAs, International Emmys and nan Irish Film and Television Awards.
Additionally, McGee curated and wrote an section of nan 2022 BBC anthology bid Skint and created/co-created The Deceived for Channel 5, London Rush for Channel 4, Raw for Ireland’s RTÉ, and astir recently, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, which launched connected Netflix successful February.
McGee has written episodes of C4’s Indian Summers, BBC1/Starz’s The White Queen and BBC3’s BAFTA-winning Being Human. Her plays see Jump!, which was adapted arsenic a 2012 movie, and Girls and Dolls, a Stewart Parker Award Winner. McGee is repped by CAA and United Agents.
