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Siobhán McSweeney spoke candidly on the BAFTA TV Awards red carpet about how much she’d like to win a BAFTA. Later that night, the “Derry Girls” actress won a BAFTA (hurray!) — for Best Comedy Actress for the fourth and final season of the hit Northern Irish comedy.

In the Netflix show, she plays nun Sister Michael, who acts as a foible for the main group of Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Orla (Louisa Harland), Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), and James (Dylan Llewellyn), who try to make it through school during the Troubles in 1990s Northern Ireland. As Sister Michael, she rules the school the girls (and James) attend with an iron fist. Being a nun isn’t some higher calling to her, it’s a job — with free accommodation. As Sister Michael, McSweeney is dry, deadpan, and constantly provides the show with some of its best laughs and most iconic lines.

Channel 4 has dropped sitcom London Irish.

The channel told Broadcast that it has no plans to move forward with the series, which ran for six episodes in autumn 2013.

A spokeswoman said: "There are currently no plans for a second series."

The series - which starred Ardal O'Hanlon - debuted to 1.2 million viewers, but only averaged 704,000 over the course of its six episodes.

Peter Campion, Sinead Keenan, Kerr Logan, Kat Reagan and Tracey Lynch also starred in the sitcom.

Earlier this month, Channel 4 ordered a new sitcom pilot from Mighty Boosh star Rich Fulcher. The proposed series is based in a family-run porn shop.

Here's a treat for Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy fans: previously unseen material is being performed live this very week...

Previously unseen Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy material is to be exclusively performed at a comedy book festival that kicks off later this week. And the good news is that tickets are still available.

Writer Jem Roberts has unearthed reams of previously undiscovered archive material from Douglas Adams as part of his research for a new biography, The Frood. His stash includes unfinished drafts of a second Hitchhiker TV series that never got made, reams of printed notes for an abandoned Dirk Gently book, A Spoon Too Short, and numerous abandoned chapters for Mostly Harmless.

But the cornerstone of the performance at the Chortle Comedy Book Festival will be a chapter from Life The Universe & Everything that was ditched before publication. In the extract, Angst In Space, Zaphod Beeblebrox faces a court interrogation.