{"id":645753,"date":"2026-10-14T03:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:18:13","slug":"girls-reboot-lena-dunham-to-reunite-cast-for-five-new-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645753\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Girls’ Reboot: Lena Dunham to Reunite Cast for Five New Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe girls<\/a> of Girls will girl once more with Lena Dunham<\/a> confirming the celebrated HBO series will return for a special five-episode run.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tProduction on the new limited series will begin in summer 2027, 10 years after Girls aired its sixth and final season<\/a>. Much of the show\u2019s core cast will return, with Dunham reprising her role as Hannah, Allison Williams<\/a> as Marnie, Jemima Kirke<\/a> as Jessa, Zosia Mamet<\/a> as Shoshanna, and Andrew Rannells as Elijah.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll five partook in a teaser announcing the reunion, technically appearing as themselves, but more or less playing their characters from the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, Dunham, who created the series and will write and direct the new episodes, explained that she was always open to bringing Girls back, but only if \u201cthere was a specific story we were burning to tell.\u201d While Dunham \u201cmissed\u201d the characters, it took her a while to picture what their lives might be like in the present.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThen, right around my 40th birthday, they started talking to me in the shower,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it\u2019s pretty hard to get them to stop.\u2026 It\u2019s 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 \u2026 and the chance to wear yellow mesh \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGirls enjoyed a six-season run on HBO between 2012 and 2017. During that time, it was nominated for 19 Emmy Awards (winning two), and six Golden Globes (also winning two, including Best Television Series \u2014 Musical or Comedy and Best Actress in a TV Series \u2014 Musical or Comedy for Dunham in 2013). Since the end of the show, Girls has remained a much-lauded<\/a> and regularly rewatched touchstone of the 2010s, landing at Number 65 on Rolling Stone\u2019s list<\/a> of the 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The girls of Girls will girl once more with Lena Dunham confirming the celebrated HBO series will return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[61777,146,90221,85,46,290545,4780,411,290546],"class_list":["post-645753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-allison-williams","tag-entertainment","tag-girls","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jemima-kirke","tag-lena-dunham","tag-tv","tag-zosia-mamet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}