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Lena Dunham Is Getting the ‘Girls’ Back Together for Five New Episodes
Confirmed
In Short: HBO has announced a limited revival of Lena Dunham's dramedy 'Girls,' set to begin production in 2027 with five new episodes.
The revival will reunite the original cast, including Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Allison Williams as Marnie Michaels, Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro, and Andrew Rannells as Elijah.
Dunham, who created, wrote, and directed the original series, will executive produce the revival alongside Judd Apatow, Ilene S. Landress, and Michael P. Cohen.
In a statement, Dunham said, 'We always said we would only return to ‘Girls’ if there was a specific story we were burning to tell. I’ve missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day.'
The original series, which ran from 2012 to 2017, is currently available on HBO Max and DVD.
The revival will mark a return to the show's universe, with Dunham also creating Netflix's 'Too Much,' which premiered last year.
Dunham's recent memoir 'Famesick' painted a toxic picture of her working relationship with Jenni Konner, who served as co-showrunner and is not returning.
Dunham and the cast will reunite to explore the characters' lives a decade after the show's original conclusion.
The revival will begin production in 2027, with plot details yet to be revealed.
The original series was praised for its portrayal of young adulthood and often named one of the greatest television shows of all time.
The revival will be a limited run, with production set to start in 2027, ten years after the show's original conclusion.
What's confirmed
- “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, executive VP, head of HBO and HBO Max comedy programming.
- Plot details of the new season have not yet been revealed, though Dunham said she was only interested in reviving the show if there was a “specific story we were burning to tell.” Girls is created, written and directed by Dunham, who will executive produce the new episodes alongside Apatow for Apatow Productions, Ilene S Landress and Michael P Cohen for Good Thing Going.
- (The reason for that might be found in Dunham’s recent memoir Famesick, which painted a toxic picture of their working relationship.) The original six seasons of Girls are currently streaming on HBO Max, and are also available on DVD via Amazon.
- The returning cast will include Dunham as Hannah, Allison Williams as Marnie, Jemima Kirke as Jessa, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna, and Andrew Rannells as Elijah.
- HBO has ordered a limited run of five episodes of Lena Dunham ’s hit comedy with the majority of the original cast confirmed to return.
- In Famesick, Dunham wrote that she hasn’t spoken to Konner since 2018.
- HBO announced Tuesday that creator and star Lena Dunham will return along with key cast members Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells.
- On Tuesday, Oct. 13, HBO announced that Lena Dunham ’s hit series will return for five episodes.
- In the clip, Dunham, who portrayed Hannah Horvath in the HBO series, video called her friends: Allison Williams (who played Marnie Michaels), Zosia Mamet (who portrayed Shoshanna Shapiro) and Jemima Kirke (the always brash Jessa Johansson).
- Until its final episode, the second season of Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls was one of the best seasons of television I’d ever seen.
What's still developing
- HBO’s Girls finished its initial six-season run in 2017 Skydance-owned US network HBO has ordered a revival season of its Lena Dunham-created dramedy Girls.
- Dunham will reprise her role as Hannah Horvath, who in the original iteration of the series was an aspiring writer navigating relationships and career in Brooklyn, New York.
- Girls isn’t the only Dunham project on the horizon — she and Carly Rae Jepsen have been collaborating on a musical adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You, which also begins its Broadway run in 2027.
- The HBO comedy goes back into production in 2027 The Girls still aren’t done growing up.
- Dunham wrote in her recent memoir Famesick that Driver was “verbally aggressive” during filming of the show.
- Almost a decade after the Emmy-winning comedy signed off, Lena Dunham and HBO made the shocking announcement on Tuesday that the series is returning for a five-episode limited run.
- Neither came out in an especially good light in Dunham’s smash-hit bestselling memoir “Famestruck,” published earlier this year.
- Contact | Privacy | Complaints | Editorial Policy WORDS Kirsty Thatcher PUBLISHED Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 6:14 am There are few things that could genuinely change the trajectory of my day, week, even year – and Lena Dunham reassembling the cast of Girls is one of them.
- Now their landlord is selling up, which means they’re about to lose the flat that has been holding their lives, and perhaps their friendship, together.
- Too Much, loosely based on Dunham’s breakup with Antonoff, move to London, and romance with her now-husband Luis Felber begins with fantasy.
- The finale “Together” has two baffling choices that confused me in 2013 and confuse me still — two romantic reunions that give the episode its title.
- It would never be the universal portrait of delayed girlhood/floundering adulthood the internet desired, but it was an undeniable portrait of the people it knew so well.