Lena Dunham’s Women returning for restricted run at HBO

“I’ve missed these characters, however for a very long time I could not fairly image them within the current day,” she stated.

“Then, proper round my fortieth birthday, they began speaking to me within the bathe. And, as you could keep in mind, as soon as this fivesome begins speaking it is fairly exhausting to get them to cease,” she stated.

Women, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017, was nominated for 19 Emmys and received two, together with finest casting.

It follows the lives of 4 buddies – Hannah, performed by Dunham, Marnie, performed by Williams, Jessa, performed by Kirke and Shoshanna, performed by Mamet – residing in New York Metropolis throughout their 20s.

The present, created by Dunham when she was 23-years-old, attracted each reward and controversy throughout its airing. The BBC ranked it as quantity 30 on its 100 Biggest TV Exhibits of the twenty first Century.

“We’re thrilled to have Lena flip her gaze from the tumult of 1’s twenties to the milestone of turning forty,” Amy Gravitt, government vice-president of HBO programming, stated.

“To say the world has modified since we final noticed Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna, Jessa, and Elijah is an enormous understatement, however we all know followers – previous and new – will likely be comfortable to see how they’ve grown and relieved to see that they are nonetheless the ‘Women’ we knew manner again when.”

The title of the restricted run has but to be introduced, however Dunham did ask her fellow solid on the mock zoom name, “can we nonetheless name it Women?”, earlier than joking “as a result of we’re previous as”.

Different solid and manufacturing members, most notably actor Adam Driver, had been absent from HBO’s official assertion. Driver, in his breakout function, performed Dunham’s on-and-off once more love curiosity within the present.

In her 2026 bestselling memoir Famesick, Dunham alleged Driver’s on-set behaviour at occasions turned verbally aggressive and bodily imposing. Driver has not publicly commented on the allegations.

In Famesick, Dunham additionally wrote in regards to the breakdown of her working relationship and friendship with co-showrunner and government producer Jenni Konner. Konner is just not included in HBO’s assertion in regards to the present’s revival.

Dunham wrote on her Substack that “it is uncommon in life that you just get the possibility to return to one thing you like with new data and a … ton of gratitude.

“I really like these women (and boy) and I really like all of the individuals who have reminded us afresh why we do that, which is the enjoyment of being collectively and the possibility to put on yellow mesh…” she wrote.

Since Women ended, Dunham has gone on to create the Netflix sequence Too A lot in 2025 and indie movie Sharp Stick.