Lena Dunham's Girls to return for a limited run

Lena Dunham's HBO series, Girls, will return to screens for a five-episode run ten years after the series finale.

Dunham - the show's creator, writer and one of its stars - shared the announcement in a mock zoom call with members of the original cast Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells.

All five actors, whose careers launched off of Girls, will be part of the revival, with production set to begin in 2027. Judd Apatow, who helped get the show green-lit with HBO, will also return as executive producer.

"We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell," Dunham said in a statement. "I've missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn't quite picture them in the present day.

"Then, right around my 40th birthday, they started talking to me in the shower. And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it's pretty hard to get them to stop."

Girls, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017, was nominated for 19 Emmys and won two, including best casting. It follows the lives of four friends - Hannah, played by Dunham, Marnie, played by Williams, Jessa, played by Kirke, and Shoshanna, played by Mamet - living in New York City during their 20s.

"We're thrilled to have Lena turn her gaze from the tumult of one's twenties to the milestone of turning forty," Amy Gravitt, executive vice-president of HBO programming, said.

"To say the world has changed since we last saw Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna, Jessa and Elijah is a massive understatement, but we know fans - old and new - will be happy to see how they've grown and relieved to see that they're still the 'girls' we knew way back when."

Other cast and production members, most notably actor Adam Driver, were absent from HBO's official statement. Driver played Adam Sackler, Hannah's on-again-off-again boyfriend.

In her 2026 bestselling memoir, Famesick, Dunham alleged Driver's on-set behaviour at times turned verbally aggressive and physically imposing. He has not publicly commented on the allegations.

In Famesick, Dunham also detailed the breakdown of her working relationship and friendship with co-showrunner and executive producer Jenni Konner - who is also not included in HBO's statement.

After Girls ended, Dunham went on to create the 2025 Netflix series Too Much and indie film Sharp Stick.

Watch the mock zoom call below.

 

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