Lena Dunham's Girls to return for limited HBO run

It follows the lives of four friends – Hannah, played by Dunham, Marnie, played by Williams, Jessa, played by Kirke and Shoshanna, played by Mamet – living in New York City during their 20s. The show, created by Dunham when she was 23-years-old, attracted both praise and controversy during its airing. The BBC ranked it as number 30 on its 100 Greatest TV Shows of the 21st Century."We're thrilled to have Lena turn her gaze from the tumult of one's twenties to the milestone of turning forty," Amy Gravitt, executive vice-president of HBO programming, said. "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."The title of the limited run has yet to be announced, but Dunham did ask her fellow cast on the mock zoom call, "can we still call it Girls?", before joking "because we're old as".Other cast and production members, most notably actor Adam Driver, were absent from HBO's official statement. Driver, in his breakout role, played Dunham's on-and-off again love interest in the show.In her 2026 bestselling memoir Famesick, Dunham alleged Driver's on-set behaviour at times turned verbally aggressive and physically imposing. Driver has not publicly commented on the allegations.In Famesick, Dunham also wrote about the breakdown of her working relationship and friendship with co-showrunner and executive producer Jenni Konner. Konner is not included in HBO's statement about the show's revival.