LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Girls,” the show that was the voice of its generation — or at least a voice of a generation — is coming back.
HBO announced Tuesday that creator and star Lena Dunham and nearly all of the core cast will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale.
Dunham, now 40, will again play her aspiring writer and sort-of alter-ego Hannah, along with Allison Williams as Marnie, Jemima Kirke as Jessa, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna and Andrew Rannells as Elijah.
Judd Apatow will return as executive producer. The announcement makes no mention of Adam Driver returning.
The show will begin production in 2027, 10 years after the finale of the series that ran for six seasons from 2012-2017 and was nominated for 19 Emmys, winning two.
“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 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.”
The revival is among the first production announcements made by HBO since its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery was taken over by Skydance-owned Paramount.
The show was both a touchstone and a lightning rod for its depiction of a group of millennial young women in New York, with its vocal haters often louder than its many devotees. Affection for it has seen a major surge in the decade since, especially among younger viewers, who see it as aspirational as well as endlessly quotable and meme-able.
In one of its most repeated lines, Hannah, while asking her parents to keep supporting her, tells them “I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice of a generation.”
Dunham has kept making film and television, directing the 2022 movie “Catherine Called Birdy” and co-creating the TV series “Camping” and “Too Much,” but none of it has had nearly the cultural impact of “Girls.” Her screen appearances have been mostly limited to small guest roles.
Williams has had several memorable movie roles especially in horror films including “Get Out” and two “M3GAN” movies.
But while the show was all about the lives of young women, the biggest star it spawned was Driver, who went on to star in a “Star Wars” trilogy and has been nominated for two Oscars.
FILE - Lena Dunham attends the premiere of "I Wish You All the Best" at IPIC Theater on Oct. 27, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Actresses Zosia Mamet, left, Allison Williams, Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke pose together at HBO's "Girls" sixth and final season premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Feb. 2, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
PARIS (AP) — Cyberattacks disrupted European supermarket chains, affecting refrigeration systems at hundreds of stores in France and forcing a major grocer to shut down websites serving customers in Europe and the United States.
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure told Parliament on Tuesday that about 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets were affected. He said there was no risk to France’s food supplies but acknowledged that the attack “touches the heart of our food security.”
“It was a wake-up call for everyone,” he said.
Separately, Dutch supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize said Tuesday it was working to restore systems it had shut down following what it described as a security issue. The company said its stores — including Albert Heijn in the Netherlands, Delhaize in Belgium and Stop & Shop, Food Lion and Giant in the United States — remained open, but the websites for those brands remained offline Tuesday.
Ahold Delhaize said it had no evidence that customer or employee data had been stolen.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that its cybercrime unit was investigating the large-scale attack in France, including the extent of damage caused by spoiled food and reported fires. According to BFM-TV, hackers forced a continuous defrost cycle and set temperatures as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on stores' refrigeration systems.
French supermarket group Groupement Mousquetaires, which operates more than 4,000 stores across Europe, said 300 of its Intermarché and Netto stores were impacted. Some refrigerated and frozen food display cases remained out of service Tuesday.
Dominique Schelcher, CEO of French grocery chain Cooperative U, said 80 of the company’s 2,000 stores were affected. Most managed to prevent disruptions to refrigeration, but some had to discard food, he said in a post on X.
“Targeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products is an attack on the French food supply chain. It is unprecedented, extremely serious, and unacceptable,” Schelcher said.
Carrefour and Monoprix supermarkets were also impacted.
The French government’s cybersecurity agency said Tuesday it was “aware of numerous compromises” involving refrigeration system remote control modules made by Danish company Danfoss as well as U.S.-based Copeland.
Danfoss said Monday that most affected systems were older products that no longer received software or security updates, and that it was working with affected customers to limit the damage.
“Danfoss has long advised customers to keep supported systems updated with the latest firmware, as well as to operate behind a firewall,” the company said.
In an August report, U.S. cybersecurity firm Claroty identified vulnerabilities in the Danfoss AK-SM 800A and Copeland XWeb Pro platforms, which are used to manage refrigeration infrastructure in supermarkets, warehouses and other facilities.
For example, Claroty said “numerous controllers” using the Danfoss system were directly accessible from the public internet, leaving them wide open for cyberattacks. But it noted that Danfoss and Copeland had since fixed the vulnerabilities.
Copeland said Tuesday that a vulnerability had been identified in “a discontinued, end-of-life generation of controllers," and that it was working with impacted customers.
Christopher Whyte, an associate professor of homeland security and emergency preparedness at Virginia Commonwealth University, said it’s “not too difficult” to carry out such an attack.
“It looks like almost certainly what happened here was these controls were left open to the broader network being used by the supermarket,” Whyte said.
Similar attacks on water systems, power infrastructure and other kinds of physical operations have been fairly common for years, often coming from Iran and other state actors, Whyte said. Over the summer, Minnesota and Michigan reported cyberattacks on their states’ water systems.
Whyte said attacks on refrigerator systems are not unprecedented. Last month, Stars and Stripes reported that three military agencies were investigating refrigeration outages at U.S. military commissaries that occurred within days of each other. The Associated Press left a message Tuesday seeking comment on that case with the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division Cyber Field Office.
But Whyte said the scale of the French attack, and the fact that there appeared to be no ransom demand or stealing of information, made this situation unusual.
It was unclear Tuesday whether the French cyberattack involved artificial intelligence. But advances in AI have contributed to an increase in cybersecurity incidents, said Varun Chandrasekaran, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois’ Grainger College of Engineering.
Chandrasekaran said there’s also a possibility that the attack happened because of an experiment an AI lab was doing — like what happened with OpenAI's breach of an Australian health department website last month. He said people should absolutely expect an increase in such cyberattacks in the future thanks to AI.
But Chandrasekaran said AI could also be useful in preventing such hacks.
“Right now it seems like a lot of the defensive countermeasures people have are quite passive,” Chandrasekaran said. “What we need is a proactive defender, like another AI model sitting on the defender side that’s trying to counter whatever the attacker AI is doing.”
Durbin contributed from Detroit. Associated Press Business Writer Barbara Ortutay reported from San Francisco. Associated Press Writer Mike Corder reported from The Hague.
FILE - A car leaves a Carrefour supermarket in Anglet, southwestern France, on Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)
