Lena Dunham to bring back ‘Girls’ for a 5-episode run on HBO 10 years after its finale

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Girls,” the show that was the voice of its generation — or at least a voice of a generation — is coming back. HBO announced that the show created by Lena Dunham will begin production on five new episodes next year, 10 years after the finale. LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Girls” will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale.

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. Judd Apatow will return as executive producer. The announcement makes no mention of Adam Driver returning to the cast.

The show will begin production in 2027, 10 years after the finale of the generational series that ran for six seasons from 2012-2017. “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 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.” Source The announcement makes no mention of Adam Driver returning.The show will begin production in 2027, 10 years after the finale of the series that ran for six seasons from 2012-2017 and was nominated for 19 Emmys, winning two.“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.

Discovery was taken over by Skydance-owned Paramount.The show was both a touchstone and a lightning rod for its depiction of a group of millennial young women in New York, with its vocal haters often louder than its many devotees. Affection for it has seen a major surge in the decade since, especially among younger viewers, who see it as aspirational as well as endlessly quotable and meme-able.In one of its most repeated lines, Hannah, while asking her parents to keep supporting her, tells them “I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice of a generation.”Dunham has kept making film and television, directing the 2022 movie “Catherine Called Birdy” and co-creating the TV series “Camping” and “Too Much,” but none of it has had nearly the cultural impact of “Girls.” Her screen appearances have been mostly limited to small guest roles.Williams has had several memorable movie roles especially in horror films including “Get Out” and two “M3GAN” movies.But while the show was all about the lives of young women, the biggest star it spawned was Driver, who went on to star in a “Star Wars” tril…