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‘Girls’ Is Returning to HBO with Lena Dunham, Original Cast: All the Details
Adam Driver isn’t ready to be the voice of a new generation.
Nearly one month after HBO announced Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet would be reprising their roles in a five-episode revival of the series, the Star Wars alum revealed he won’t be a part of the project.
Indeed, when asked if he would be returning for the long-awaited reboot, Driver—who played Dunham’s love interest Adam Sackler on the show—told Cinema Blend in an interview published Nov. 6, “No, but I wish them the best of luck.”
HBO previously announced that production on the revival will kick off in 2027, 10 years after Girls' five-season run ended with Dunham's character Hannah Horvath moving out of New York City and giving birth to a baby boy named Grover.
“We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell," Dunham, who also created the series, shared in an Oct. 13 press release. "I've missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day."
The This is 40 actress said the comedy's iconic characters—Marnie Michaels (Williams), Jessa Johansson (Kirke) and Shoshanna Shapiro (Mamet) as well as Andrew Rannells’ Elijah Krantz "started talking to me in the shower" around her 40th birthday in May.
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"And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it’s pretty hard to get them to stop," Dunham continued. "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."
Six months before the show was greenlit, Dunham shared insight into her and Driver’s rocky behind-the-scenes relationship, detailing the Marriage Story star’s alleged "feral" outbursts on set in her memoir Famesick.
“Adam screamed, ‘F--KING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me,’” Dunham alleged, noting she was suffering with dissociation as part of her undiagnosed endometriosis at the time. “‘WAKE THE F--K UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”
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She also alleged that the “careful blocking” laid out for them during sex scenes “went out the window” when the cameras began to roll, adding that Driver, in character, would “hurl me this way and that” during intimate scenes.
“Part of me was afraid that when I turned around, I would find I was suddenly in a full-penetration 1970s porno,” she admitted. “But after a few mimed thrusts, I called cut.”
And while Dunham recalled Driver saying he’d “always love" her when the series wrapped in 2017, she claims she “never heard from him again.”
In response to her claims, Driver said during the Cannes press conference for his film Paper Tiger in May, per Variety, “I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book."
Until the Girls get back together onscreen, keep reading for more TV series that were renewed this year…
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RENEWED: The Diplomat
No international scandal here. Netflix's hit drama will return for season five.
Katrina Marchinowski/Netflix
RENEWED: Nobody Wants This
Everybody wants this. Netflix confirmed the romantic comedy would be back for season four.
Prime Video/Amazon MGM Studios
RENEWED: Carrie
Prime Video's retelling of the classic horror story will return for a sophomore season.
Clifton Prescod/Bravo
RENEWED: Next Gen NYC
The next generation of Bravo stars is here to stay because Next Gen NYC was renewed for season two at Bravo.
Bravo
RENEWED: In the City
Take another bite of Big Apple drama when the Summer House spinoff returns for season two next year.
Bravo/NBCUniversal
RENEWED: Southern Hospitality
Bravo has renewed the Southern Charm spinoff for season five.
FX/Disney
RENEWED: American Horror Story
The horror never dies, because FX's spine-chilling anthology series is set to return for season 14 in 2027.
Apple TV
RENEWED: Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
Apple TV's dark comedy starring Tatiana Maslany will return for season two.
Netflix
RENEWED: The Hunting Wives
Netflix's juicy drama starring Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow will bring even more heat when season three debuts next year.
Michelle Faye/USA Network
RENEWED: Anna Pigeon
Tracy Spiridakos is back on the case as USA Network has renewed the drama for season two.
Craig Minielly/Netflix
RENEWED: Crew Girl
Netflix's teen drama will return for season two.
Apple TV
RENEWED: Imperfect Women
The Kerry Washington-led thriller was renewed for season two by Apple TV.
Netflix
RENEWED: A Different World
Netflix's reboot of the '90s college series will return for a sophomore year.
NBCUniversal
RENEWED: The Traitors
Attention Faithfuls and Traitors alike: Peacock has ordered three more seasons of the wickedly deceptive game show.
Apple TV
RENEWED: Slow Horses
Apple TV announced that Gary Oldman and crew will return for season eight of the spy drama.
Netflix
CANCELED: Ransom Canyon
The romance between Josh Duhamel's Staten and Minka Kelly's Quinn will end with season two as Netflix has canceled the drama, Deadline confirmed.
Apple TV
RENEWED & ENDING: Silo
The Apple TV sci-fi thriller will return with a fourth and final season in 2027.
Jason Bell/Paramount+
RENEWED: MobLand
Tom Hardy is reportedly set to return for season three of the Paramount+ drama.
Scott Everett White/NBC
RENEWED: American Ninja Warrior
The NBC competition series will challenge more hopefuls with new and insane obstable courses during seasons 19 and 20.
Hulu/Disney
RENEWED: Furious
The new thriller starring Emmy Rossum will return for season two.
Art Streiber/Peacock via Getty Images
RENEWED: Love Island USA
The Bombshells will be back.
Because Peacock's hit reality dating competition series will return for season nine with host Ariana Madix.
Disney
CANCELED: Not Suitable for Work
The Mindy Kaling-created series was not greenlit by Hulu for a second season after its June premiere.
Netflix
RENEWED: The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie's Neflix drama was renewed for a third season ahead of its season two premiere Sept. 3.
Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME
ENDING: Yellowjackets
The Showtime drama's upcoming fourth season, premiering Nov. 20, will be it's last.
Sabrina Lantos/Prime
RENEWED: Sterling Point
Fans are headed back to Muskoka because Prime Video has renewed the teen drama for season two.
Netflix
RENEWED: America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Consider this renewal news something to cheer about.
The Netflix reality series will return for a fourth season.
Colin Remas Brown/HBO Max
RENEWED: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
Bazinga! The Big Bang Theory spinoff will return with more time-traveling antics in season two on HBO Max.
Brooke Palmer/HBO
RENEWED: IT: Welcome to Derry
The HBO series based on Stephen King's terrifying clown killer will cause more nightmares when season two debuts.
Samsung TV Plus
RENEWED: Hooligans: The ARCH Racing Project
Samsung TV Plus greenlit a season two of the high-octane series, which follows Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger, riders Corey Alexander and Jeremy McWilliams, and their team as they rev up from building world-class machines to competing in the high-stakes world of professional racing in MotoAmerica, America’s premier motorcycle road racing series.
Starz
RENEWED: S.W.A.T. Exiles
Star Shemar Moore announced the S.W.A.T. spinoff was renewed for season two ahead of its season one premiere on Starz.
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