Lauren Graham has been beaming about the potential for another Gilmore Girls reunion and a source with ties to the franchise exclusively tells Life & Style there’s every reason for fans to expect it to happen – with a huge payday in store for all concerned.
“It’s no secret inside Netflix that the Gilmore Girls revival, A Year in the Life, punched above its weight back in 2016 when Netflix had a much smaller lineup of original programming and was still building its subscriber base,” says a streaming insider of the developing situation. “As the ten year anniversary of those episodes approaches, and after that, the twenty year anniversary of the 2007 conclusion of the original show, the door is wide open for another return — and Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel want to do it.”
“I always say yes because it’s the best part I ever had,” Lauren, 57, said of her role as Lorelai Gilmore while discussing the show on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in February. “I love doing it, and I think it was a really wonderful [experience]. It’s just that thing where it was the perfect material at the perfect time with the perfect writer — and it just means so much to me.”
Though, the source notes that while the two leads may be more than thrilled to pick up where they left off, the reality of another reunion really comes down to creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s willingness to take the reigns and handle the reboot herself.
“Everything hinges on the show’s original creator Amy Sherman-Palladino making a deal to come back,” the source explains. “Nobody believes you can mount a successful revival without her at the helm, and she is still very active as a writer and relatively young at just 59 years old.”
However, there’s a hitch and it has to do with the way streaming services with original programming tend to cling to their artists and creators via tactics that reward loyalty. The celebrated television writer has found success once again with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and, despite the show ending its run in May 2023, the insider says it’ll be a tough sell to get her back to Netflix.
Amy “is a notoriously tough negotiator and to get this show on the air in ’26 or ’27, you have to start that process now and for the last several years, her business home has been Netflix’s arch-rival Amazon Studios,” the insider says.
Amy has expressed pride in how Gilmore Girls ended after 2016’s reunion special, telling Us Weekly the project “meant we got to actually end it the way we wanted to end it … So I feel very happy.” Though that doesn’t necessarily mean she couldn’t be tempted to open the story back up to more plotlines set another 10 years in the future with a big enough deal from the streaming giant, as her husband, Dan Palladino, added, “Maybe it’s not the end, who knows?”
“Creatively, the will is there from all parties, and there’s a giant streaming audience that grew up on the Gilmore Girls going back to the early 2000s,” the source explains. “The business challenges, which aren’t that complicated, are the only thing standing in the way of more episodes.”
