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Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney teases potential Sister Michael spin-off ahead of TV Baftas win-Emily Bashforth and Stella Akinwumi-Entertainment – Metro

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Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney teases potential Sister Michael spin-off ahead of TV Baftas win-Emily Bashforth and Stella Akinwumi-Entertainment – Metro

Ahead of her TV Baftas triumph, Siobhán McSweeney shared her love of her character Sister Michael (Picture: Getty)

Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney has teased a possible Sister Michael spin-off – and we’d so be here for it.

The actress, 43, played Sister George Michael in three series of the much-loved sitcom.

Derry Girls follows teens growing up in Londonderry in the 1990s and was a sleeper hit that built a large and committed following.

Set during the Troubles, the show was praised for offering a new perspective on the period of the IRA and loyalist ceasefires through the eyes of a group of young girls.

Sister Michael is a nun and the eye-rolling headmistress at Our Lady Immaculate College in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she was a fan favourite thanks to her sarcasm and witty comments, particularly towards her job.

She was definitely a more realistic nun, forever making sharp remarks towards the student body and faculty – oh, and she was a black belt in judo, of course.

The Irish actress was taken to the hearts of Derry Girls viewers thanks to her sarcasm and quick wit (Picture: Peter Marley)

After receiving a nomination at this year’s TV Baftas, Irish star Siobhán told Metro.co.uk that she’s all for Sister Michael getting more screentime.

However, it’s not a priority.

‘There’s a few more adventures I would love to have first,’ she began.

‘It’s a great compliment that people want to see more of her.’

On whether she would she want to revisit the character in the future, she admitted: ‘I’m thinking of today being the goodbye turn, the end of that chapter and it’s changed my life immensely.

‘I’ll always have her when I look in the mirror, but I think it’s time to move on to more adventures.’

Siobhán was nominated in the best female comedy category, along with Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?), Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth), Lucy Beaumont (Meet The Richardsons), Natasia Demetriou (Ellie & Natasia), and Taj Atwal (Hullraisers).

Derry Girls ran for three series on Channel 4 (Picture: Adam Lawrence)

It was the first award of the night, and she only went and scooped the trophy!

In the humorous speech, which she said at double speed given the short time given, she said: ‘So, I’ve been warned not to do a political statement, so as my mother laid dying in Cork, one of the very last things she said to me was would I not consider retraining as a teacher.

‘If she could see me now, getting a Bafta for playing a teacher. Joke’s on you.’

She also thanked Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee ‘for not listening to me when I said I could play all the girls’ parts.’

The star then thanked Channel 4, adding ‘you have my devotion’.

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Siobhán added: ‘To the people in Derry, thank you for taking me into your hearts and living room, despite the ignorance of your so-called leaders in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster.

‘Into the words of my beloved Sister Michael, “it’s time they started to wise up”.’

Full list of Bafta TV nominations 2023:

P&O Cruises memorable moment:

Derry Girls finale

Heartstopper: Nick and Charlie’s first kiss

Paddington meets The Queen

Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things

The Traitors’ final roundtable

The Real Mo Farah

Comedy Entertainment programme:

Friday Night Live

The Graham Norton Show

Taskmaster

Would I Lie to You?

Current Affairs:

Afghanistan: No Country For Women

Children of the Taliban

The Crossing

Mariupol: The People’s Story

Daytime:

The Chase

The Repair Shop

Scam Interceptors

Drama Series:

Bad Sisters

The Responder

Sherwood

Somewhere Boy

Entertainment Performance:

Big Zuu (Big Zuu’s Big Eats)

Claudia Winkleman (The Traitors)

Lee Mack (The 1% Club)

Mo Gilligan (The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan)

Rosie Jones (Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard)

Sue Perkins (Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal)

Entertainment programme:

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

Later… with Jools Holland: Jool’s 30th Birthday Bash

The Masked Singer

Strictly Come Dancing

Factual Series:

Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime

Libby, Are You Home Yet

Vatican Girl: The Disapearance of Emanuela Orlandi

Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing

Features:

Big Zuu’s Big Eats

Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back at Xmas

The Martin Lewis Money Show Live

The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Female Performance in a Comedy programme:

Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?)

Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth)

Lucy Beaumont (Meet The Richardsons)

Natasia Demetriou (Ellie & Natasia)

Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls)

Taj Atwal (Hullraisers)

International:

The Bear

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

Wednesday

Oussekine

Pachinko

The White Lotus

Leading Actor:

Ben Whishaw (This Is Going To Hurt)

Chaske Spencer (The English)

Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders)

Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)

Martin Freeman (The Responder)

Taron Egerton (Black Bird)

Leading Actress:

Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie Too)

Imelda Staunton (The Crown)

Kate Winslet (I Am Ruth)

Maxine Peak (Anne)

Sarah Lancashire (Julia)

Vicky McClure (Without Sin)

Live Event:

Concert for Ukraine

Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace

The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II

Male performance in a Comedy programme:

Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story)

Jon Pointing (Big Boys)

Joseph Gilgun (Brassic)

Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?)

Matt Berry (What We Do In The Shadows)

Stephen Merchant (The Outlaws)

Mini-series

A Spy Among Friends

Mood

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

This Is Going To Hurt

News Coverage:

BBC News at Ten: Russia Invades Ukraine

Channel 4 News: Live in Kyiv

Good Morning Britain: Boris Johnson Interview

Reality and Constructed Factual:

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

The Traitors

We Are Black and British

Scripted Comedy:

Am I Being Unreasonable?

Big Boys

Derry Girls

Ghosts

Short Form programme:

Always, Asifa

Biscuitland

How To Be a Person

Kingpin Cribs

Single documentary:

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

Escape from Kabul Airport

Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story

The Real Mo Farah

Single drama:

I Am Ruth

The House

Life and Death in the Warehouse

Soap and Continuing Drama:

Casualty

EastEnders

Emmerdale

Specialist Factual:

AIDS: The Unheard Tapes

The Green Planer

How To Survive A Dictator with Munya Chawawa

Russia: 1985-1999: Traumazone

Sport:

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

UEFA Women’s Euro 2022

Wimbledon 2022

Supporting Actor:

Adeel Akhtar (Sherwood)

Jack Lowden (Slow Horses)

Josh Finan (The Responder)

Salim Daw (The Crown)

Samuel Bottomley (Somewhere Boy)

Will Sharpe (The White Lotus)

Supporting Actress:

Adelayo Adedayo (The Responder)

Anne-Marie Duff (Bad Sisters)

Fiona Shaw (Andor)

Jasmine Jobson (Top Boy)

Lesley Manville (Sherwood)

Saffron Hocking (Top Boy)


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