HBO has greenlit a revival of “Girls,” Lena Dunham‘s beloved and controversial mid-aughts dramedy. The series will return for a limited, five-episode run with production beginning in 2027 — a decade after the Season 6 finale. With Dunham as creator, showrunner and star, the original series followed a group of friends through the misery and bad decision-making of their 20s in New York City.
All four core cast members are returning for the revival: Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Alison Williams as Marnie Michaels, Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson and Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro. Additionally, Andrew Rannells reprises the role of Elijah Krantz. Judd Apatow returns as executive producer on behalf of Apatow Productions alongside Dunham, Ilene S.
Cohen of Dunham’s Good Thing Going banner. Williams, Kirke, Mamet and Rannells serve as co-executive producers. 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…” Dunham has expressed openness to the idea of reviving “Girls” multiple times over the years. Speaking to Variety in 2025, she said, “If we had something to say that was really specific and it was a moment in their lives where we felt like revisiting it — like millennial women becoming mothers or stepping into menopause or going to live at old-age homes — I would always want to work with those people again.” Musing on each character’s fate, Dunham continued, “Shoshanna was married to, then divorced from, the mayor of New York City, and she runs an athleisure startup that’s zero-waste.
Marnie — it’s third marriage. She still sings, but I think Marnie really needs to take it to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. Jessa is unvaccinated and lives on a boat in Croatia.
Adam is a cult theater actor, and he’s probably living in Berlin, and Ray is still on city council and running his coffee shop and doing better than anyone. Elijah is the fourth lead on a sitcom, making a good amount of money and still looking for love in all the wrong places.” About her own character, Dunham added, “She teaches at Bard and loves raising her son. She probably has a girlfriend who’s, like, a chef.
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