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Derry Girls and How to Get to Heaven From Belfast creator Lisa McGee is heading back to Netflix for her next series.
The streamer has greenlit Jig, a mockumentary comedy set in the “high-stakes world of competitive Irish dancing.” The six-episode show is set to begin filming next year in Northern Ireland.
Jig is one of a number of announcements Netflix made at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday, including a Top Boy prequel series, Jonny Boy, starring Barry Keoghan; drama The Unheard, starring Kate Winslet and Maxine Peake; and a series based on some of Roald Dahl’s short stories.
Jig will center on best friends Cara and Fletcher, who are part of a struggling dance school in Derry that aims for the world championships in Irish dancing. Standing in their way are “their sworn rivals in Florida, a slick, sponsored, seemingly unbeatable operation,” per the show’s logline. Casting hasn’t been announced yet.
