DRAMA & COMEDY


“special set of skills” monologue from Taken during his appearances on set. His part of the shoot proved to be one of the biggest challenges to get in the can, as the show filmed during the Covid 19 pandemic.


“Filming was relentless worry every day, tests every day,” says McGee. “We kind of got away with it until Liam Neeson was due to come and film. We had a positive Covid test from one of the crew and we were stood down for 10 days.”


Neeson changed his entire schedule to return for his scenes. “He’s an absolute diamond. That (positive Covid test) was a disaster but then I ended up feeling very blessed,” she says. “He was so nice to make it work for us.”


The final series fulfils the self-proclaimed ‘90s kid’s desire to pay homage to various genres of that era including a “horror” episode. Another referenced the film In The Name of the Father.


Homage to Derry & C4


And then there was the episode with the Spice Girls tribute act. “I was a teenager at the time and it is something we actually did


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CHANNEL FOUR, THEY JUST HAVE TO HAVE THE BALLS TO DO STUFF LIKE THAT


IT COULD HAVE ONLY REALLY HAPPENED ON


in a school talent show. I had a video of it that I was showing to the director [Michael Lennox],” McGee says. “We were really, really terrible when we did it, but the actors [Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nicola Coughlan, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell and Dylan Llewellyn] are really good when they do it for the series.”


For the record, McGee


was always Geri (Ginger) Spice. “She was the noisiest and she was in charge. That was me, the pain in the arse at school telling everyone where to stand.”


The third series of the sitcom ends with an affecting montage of footage of real people in McGee’s hometown of Derry and traumatic events during the Troubles mixed with dialogue delivered by Erin Quinn, played by Saoirse-Monica Jackson.


“I’m so proud to have been the one that got the chance to do something like that. It could have only really happened on Channel Four, they just have to have the balls to do stuff like that. It’s not a funny way to end a sitcom.”


Televisual Bulldog voters and audiences alike beg to differ.


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