Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee has teased 'bigger and better' antics when the series returns next week for a second season.
The Channel 4 comedy follows the lives of a group of teenagers growing up in Derry in the 1990s.
"It is a bit more hopeful but the girls are still a disaster," McGee said about the show's return.
"Maybe the scale of what they are getting up to is a bit bigger, we have tried to push it a bit and add a bit more ambition about it this series.
"The antics are a bit bigger and better and we get out and about a bit more, we see a bit more of Northern Ireland and that sort of thing."
Derry Girls was an instant hit and McGee credits this to the universality of the story, and also how there is balance between the humour and the serious backdrop.
"There is something universal about being a teenager and that sort of selfishness, that self-centredness, everybody can remember being like that, when all things were the biggest dramas ever," she said.
"The family dynamic too. Everybody understands how, when you were young, feeling like everything your mum and dad said was unfair. There are things that everyone, no matter if you are Irish or not, can identify with."
She added: "Those sort of darker times have to co-exist with the lighter times as well, we try to always be truthful about that."
Derry Girls returns to Channel 4 on Tuesday, March 5 at 9.15pm.
