Ahead of the broadcast of the second season of hit comedy Derry Girls later this year, the cast are set to be honoured with their own mural in the city.
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The Belfast Telegraph reports that the show’s lead characters - Erin, Orla, Clare, Michelle and James - will be painted onto the side of Badgers Bar on Orchard Street in the Old City centre.
Channel 4, which makes the show, has teamed up with UV Arts, a non-profit social enterprise group from the city, to create the mural, which is part of a wider marketing campaign.
"There is great anticipation here for the next instalment of the Derry Girls series and this artwork is a real tribute to the cast which will no doubt be really well received by fans," said Councillor John Boyle, Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council.
"I am delighted to see the ongoing success of the show, which has shone a spotlight on the city, our culture and our humour."
"The opportunity to immortalise these iconic figures through an amazing new mural can give the city a little hope for the future and spread a little laughter along the way," said Karl Porter at UV Arts.
The first series of Derry Girls, which is set in the early 1990s, was shown in January 2018 to huge acclaim in the UK and Ireland, particularly from the local community in Derry, making it Channel 4’s biggest comedy launch series in 14 years.
It was commissioned for a third series before cameras started rolling on season two.
Last July, the show won the Radio Times Comedy Champion award after an intensely close battle with Inside No. 9.
Derry Girls also won Best Comedy and Derry native Lisa McGee won Best Writer - Comedy/Soap at the 2018 IFTA Gala Television Awards.
Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment last year, Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O'Donnell said that she thinks season two - which completed filming last November - is better than the first series of the hit show.
"I think, personally, how Lisa has written the relationships between the characters, with us and with the family, and all those different interactions is so universal.
"It just happens to be set in Derry, but I think if you took the Derry accent off and the Derry backdrop and put it somewhere else it would work just as well because those relationships.
"I think we've all been in those situations. We all know these people; we've all been around these types of people. I think that's why it's done so well and really hit the nail on the head."
Lisa McGee has said that the new series will see the girls and the wee English fella "up to more mischief and causing more chaos."
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