HBO is getting the "Girls" back together. Nearly ten years after the acclaimed comedy's 2017 series finale, the network confirmed Tuesday that "Girls" is returning for a limited run of five new episodes, with creator Lena Dunham leading the original cast back into Hannah Horvath's chaotic orbit.

Joining Dunham as Hannah are Allison Williams (Marnie), Jemima Kirke (Jessa), Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna) and Andrew Rannells (Elijah). Judd Apatow returns as an executive producer alongside Ilene S. Landress and Michael P. Cohen, with Williams, Kirke, Mamet and Rannells all signing on as co-executive producers. The announcement arrived via a cast reunion video posted to social media rather than a traditional press release.

Notably absent from the credited producing team is Jenni Konner, Dunham's longtime co-showrunner on the original series. According to TheWrap's reporting, there's also no word yet on whether Adam Driver, Christopher Abbott or Alex Karpovsky — who played the show's central love interests — will appear in the new episodes. Production is slated to begin in summer 2027, and no premiere date or window has been set.

From twentysomething chaos to turning 40

"Girls" originally ran on HBO from 2012 to 2017, following a group of twentysomething friends navigating careers, sex and self-absorption in New York City. The series earned 19 Emmy nominations and two wins during its run, including Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series, and helped launch Dunham, Williams and Driver into A-list careers.

In a statement, Dunham explained what finally pulled the show out of mothballs. "We always said we would only return to 'Girls' if there was a specific story we were burning to tell," she said. "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."

"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." — Amy Gravitt, HBO & HBO Max Comedy Programming chief

The tone of the rollout was knowingly self-aware: in the cast's social video, Dunham cracked, "Can we still call it 'Girls'? Because we're like old as f—k," while Kirke reportedly joked on camera that she wasn't signing up for a full-year commitment. Gravitt framed the revival as a shift "from the tumult of one's twenties to the milestone of turning forty."

What's next: with filming not starting until summer 2027, fans are in for a long wait, and HBO has given no indication of episode count beyond the confirmed five, nor any streaming date on HBO Max. Whether Driver's Adam Sackler — arguably the show's most famous alum — factors into the story at all remains the biggest open question hanging over the revival.