Lena Dunham's hit series "Girls" is resurrected

The news of the return hits like a bomb in the entertainment world. Admittedly, it is a limited edition of five episodes with filming starting in 2027 – a decade after the sixth and final season ended, writes Variety.

"Girls" aired between 2012 and 2017 and followed a group of dysfunctional friends in their 20s in New York City.

"We always said we would only return to 'Girls' if there was a specific story we were burning to tell," Dunham said in a statement.

"I've missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn't really picture them today. Then, right around my fortieth birthday, they started talking to me in the shower," Dunham continues.

In addition to Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Allison Williams returns as Marnie Michaels, Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson and Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro. Additionally, Andrew Rannells reprises his role as Elijah Krantz.

However, Adam Driver, who played Hannah's on-and-off boyfriend Adam Sackler, is missing from the cast. In her memoir Famesick, released in April of this year, Dunham claims that Driver was "verbally aggressive, condescending and physically threatening" during filming, recounting an incident in which he threw a chair against the wall next to her because he was angry that she had forgotten her lines.