Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. When British comedy titans like…
"We are over the far side of the moon about this chance to shine a light on the funniest Northern Ireland comedy writers and performers"
Jamie-Lee O'Donnell is set to take on a major new starring role in an upcoming BBC comedy
Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O'Donnell is set to lead the cast in a new BBC comedy series called Hopley Hall
"Jamie-Lee’s support will make a real difference to local people and families facing hardship across our community"
Co-creator, co-writer and co-star of Am I Being Unreasonable? and co-star of Things You Should Have Done, which is nominated for best scripted comedy.
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“Foodbanks are about much more than food. They’re about dignity, compassion and making sure people know they are not alone.”
The couple married back in August 2025 in a three day ceremony
Fans say you won't regret watching the critically acclaimed drama
The 'excellent' thriller with stars from Derry Girls and Game of Thrones is streaming on Netflix now.
Derry Girls and Bridgerton actress Nicola Coughlan has a new television gig lined up
The complex character is no challenge for Nicola.
The Commitments star said Derry Girls has been “enormous” for Derry as she spoke to Ralph McLean on the Postcards From Northern Ireland podcast
“There are now multiple Derry Girls tours, afternoon teas, prosecco nights – whatever you fancy."
The Irish actress, 39, is known for playing panicky student Clare Devlin on the Channel 4 comedy
Outlander and Derry Girls star Jessica Reynolds will star alongside Brenda Blethyn in Channel 4's adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's classic novel
As if we couldn't love Jamie-Lee O'Donnell anymore, the Derry Girls star has revealed her favourite place in Dublin, and it is equal parts relatable and hilarious! The actress has been travelling to Dublin a lot more for filming, despite having recently relocated to Spain. She confessed that she has been loving the time she […]
The uplift is one part of a 2.7 million euro (£2.3 million) investment for a range of projects which also include Giant's Causeway and a Co Antrim Courthouse
'Hilarious, thrilling and slightly surreal'.
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast,” now streaming on Netflix. It starts, as so many things in Irish life do, with a wake. Lisa McGee had wanted to take on the murder mystery genre for years. She just knew she couldn’t do it straight. “I was such a […]
Here's your essential rundown of everything that happens in the final episode of How to Get to Heaven From Belfast's first season
Flooded roads, creepy coincidences and epic filming locations... what more could you ask for.
Saoirse is a TV writer who has begun to resent the success of her biggest hit, but is the How to Get to Heaven From Belfast protagonist based on Lisa McGee?
The cast and creator of Netflix’s must-watch Irish comedy-thriller have teased what could happen in a second season of How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
The Lisa McGee series is now streaming!
Netflix’s must-watch Irish comedy mystery drama is now streaming, but what happens in the final episode?
A key scene from Netflix’s new murder mystery comedy series How to Get to Heaven From Belfast was particularly nerve-wracking for one star
Netflix’s latest must-watch series may have left some viewers stumped over the pronunciation of its cast and characters’ names
Netflix's new eight-part murder mystery comedy from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee has been released on Netflix and critics are calling it 'wildly entertaining'
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is “wish fulfilment” for creator Lisa McGee. “I’d love to go on one of these adventures with my friends,” McGee told Deadline at London’s Langham Hotel a day before the Netflix comedy thriller launched. “I’d love to solve a mystery. I think a lot of women are really […]