The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Derry Girls

Channel 4, 9.15pm

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Take a trip back to the 1990s in Northern Ireland for the third and final series of the raucous and brilliantl­y observed comedy from writer Lisa McGee.

While there's increasing hope for a peace deal that might at last bring an end to the Troubles, for the girls there are far more immediate issues to deal with – namely the battles of their teenage social life and the unavoidabl­e matters of school, where headmistre­ss Sister Michael (Siobhán McSweeney) reigns fearsomely supreme.

As we rejoin (left to right) Aunt Sarah (Kathy Keira Clarke), Orla (Louisa Harland), Ma Mary (Tara Lynne O'Neill) and Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) for the first of six episodes, the girls are awaiting their GCSE results and fearing the worst. Plus, there's increasing mayhem with a new addition to Erin's family. Make the most of these girls – we'll miss them. ★★★★☆

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