HBO To Revive Lena Dunham’s Girls For New Limited Series
The award winning comedy series created by Lena Dunham, Girls is set to return with production starting in 2027 10 years after it’s finale.
HBO announced the Emmy®-winning original comedy series today which had Judd Apatow as executive producer. Apatow will be back in his old role with series back for a limited 5 episode run
The majority of the original cast will be returning including Dunham as Hannah Horvath. Also Allison Williams as Marnie Michael, Jemima Kirke as Jessa, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna, Andrew Rannells as Elijah.
Girls was a comedy show loved by the millennial generation as the fix was seen as a perfect satire of the millennial experience in 2010s. The show ran for six seasons between 2012 and 2017 with the show earning 19 Emmy nominations, winning 2 of them.
Girls help launch the career of Dunham, Williams and Adam Driver who played Hannah’s boyfriend Adam Sackler. There is no word yet that Driver will be returning as Adam.
“We always said we would only return to GIRLS if there was a specific story we were burning to tell”, said Lena Dunham. “I’ve missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day. Then, right around my fortieth 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…”
“It’s rare that you get the chance to return to something that changed your life with the gift of hindsight and a whole new level of gratitude and understanding. I love these girls (and boy), our friends at HBO, and all the people who have continued to discover the show and remind us afresh why we do this, which is the joy of being together… and the chance to wear yellow mesh…”
“We’re thrilled to have Lena turn her gaze from the tumult of one’s twenties to the milestone of turning forty“. Said Amy Gravitt Head of HBO Comedy programming. “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.”
Girls original co-showrunner Jenni Konner with Dunham won’t be returning. It’s early days for exactly what we can expect from this new series, might be more surprises still to come!
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