Lena Dunham's Girls returns for a limited run on HBO

The creator and star, along with Alison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirk and Andrew Runnels, will return for a five-episode revival of Girls, the landmark HBO series about millennial fighters that started the careers of Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Adam Driver and more, for a 20-episode limited run on the HBO series at the end of the HBO series. Next year—a decade after the series finale—Dunham's creator and star, as aspiring writer Hannah Horvath, in K

Girls, the landmark HBO series about millennial fighters that launched Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Adam Driver and more, will return for a limited run on HBO in 2027.

The five-episode spin-off, set to air next year — a decade after the series finale — reunites creator and star Dunham as aspiring writer Hannah Horvath, alongside Williams as Marnie Michaels, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna, Jemima Kirk as Jessa and Andrew Runnels as Elijah. Judd Apatow will also return as an executive producer.

"We've always said we'd only come back to the girls if there was a special story to tell," Dunham said in a statement. "I missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn't picture them in the present day. Then, right around my forties, they started talking to me in the shower. And as you may remember, once these five people start talking, it's very hard to stop them…

"It's rare that you have the opportunity to look back on something that changed your life with the gift of hindsight and a whole new level of appreciation and understanding," he added. I love these girls (and guys), our friends at HBO, and all the people who continue to discover the series and remind us all over again why we do this, that it's fun to be together... and the opportunity to wear the yellow mesh...

"We're thrilled to see Lena shift her gaze from the roaring twenties to the turning point of her forties," said HBO president Amy Gravitt. We knew they would be happy.

Over the course of six high-profile seasons, from 2012 to 2017, Girls received 19 Emmy nominations and two wins, including for best actress. Dunham, who became a fixture in the media after writing the show's pilot at age 23, returns to the series following the release of her best-selling memoir Famesick, which chronicles the onslaught of responsibilities and fame during the show's 2010s heyday. Dunham's credits since the end of Girls also include the Netflix series Too Much and the indie film Sharp Stick.

Other details, including the title, story and additional cast, have yet to be announced. As Dunham wondered in a video teasing the announcement, "But I have a question — can we still call it girls? Because we're old as f—."

The news comes as HBO became part of Skydance in a $111 billion merger that became official last week.