Cult favorite HBO series Girls announces revival
Cult favorite HBO series Girls announces revival
Carsen Holaday Tue, October 13, 2026 at 7:37 PM UTC
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Girls is back!
Fans of Lena Dunham’s beloved New York City-based series were shocked Tuesday when HBO Max announced that new episodes of the series are in the works after the series ended in 2017.
The five-episode, limited run revival will feature Dunham, the show’s creator and star, alongside co-stars Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells.
Not mentioned in the returning cast so far is Adam Driver, who played Dunham’s character on-and-off boyfriend. Dunham’s bombshell memoir released earlier this year revealed that tensions on the set of the 2010s show culminated in the Marriage Story actor throwing a chair at a wall.
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Dunham said in a post shared on her Substack: “There was a long period in which it was impossible to imagine reconvening Girls- it felt so recent and so big, like a glacier we were sailing away from.
Zosia Mamet, Lena Dunham, Allison Williams and Jemima Kirke will return for the ‘Girls’ revival (HBO)
“Then, I turned forty. I thought about the distance I felt- having not yet had a child, having come ‘later’ to marriage, having gone very fast in certain ways and still having some challenges with the washing machine- from the woman I thought I’d be and so many women I know,” she said.
The writer continued, “Maybe there was once a part of me that wanted to outrun Hannah and her ladies. Seeing the love you’ve so generously shared for it helped to turned me around.”
Production on the new episodes is scheduled to begin in 2027.
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Source: “AOL Entertainment”
