Girls is coming back.
HBO has given the green light for a limited series of five episodes of Lena Dunham's popular comedy.
Most of the original cast is returning.You can watch the announcement video below.
Lena Dunham will play Hannah again.
Allison Williams is back as Marnie.Jemima Kirke returns as Jessa.Zosia Mamet is back as Shoshanna.Andrew Rannells, who first appeared as Elijah in the first three seasons and later became a regular in Season 4, is also coming back.
However, Adam Driver, who played Hannah's boyfriend Adam, is not returning.
In her recent book, Famesick, Lena wrote that Adam Driver was "verbally aggressive" during the show's filming.
Production will start next year, which is 15 years after the show first aired and 10 years after the final season ended.
Lena Dunham, who also created Netflix's Too Much, which premiered last year, has long wanted to bring back the characters from Girls.
In a conversation with Variety last year, she mentioned that if she had a specific story to tell, like millennial women becoming mothers or going through menopause, she would want to work with those people again.
She also mentioned that Shoshanna is divorced from a New York mayor, Marnie is on her third marriage, Jessa lives on a boat in Croatia and is unvaccinated, Adam is now a cult theater actor in Berlin, and Hannah teaches at Bard and has a son and a chef girlfriend.
Lena created, wrote, and directed the show and will executive produce the return alongside Judd Apatow, Ilene S.
Landress, and Michael P.Cohen from Good Thing Going.Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, and Zosia Mamet will also serve as co-executive producers.
Jenni Konner, who was a co-showrunner and close creative partner to Lena during the show, is not returning.
In Famesick, Lena wrote that she hasn't spoken to Konner since 2018.
Lena said: "We always wanted to return to Girls only 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.Then, right around my 40th 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."
Amy Gravitt, EVO, Head of HBO & HBO Max Comedy Programming, added: "We're thrilled to have Lena turn her gaze from the tumult of one's 20s to the milestone of turning 40.
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."
