Watch the New Trailer for Girls5eva, the New Musical Comedy Series Executive Produced by Tina Fey

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As if we needed another reason to join yet another streaming service, an impressive group of comedy veterans has teamed up for a new series about erstwhile '90s pop stars who reunite as adult women to mount a comeback. Girls5eva, the brainchild of the Emmy Award-winning writer Meredith Scardino, whose credits include The Colbert Report and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is set to debut on Peacock, NBC's streaming service, on May 6. Tina Fey, an expert at bringing fresh, and hilarious, perspectives to common tropesthe high school clique (Mean Girls), escaping a cult (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)—serves as an executive producer.

Busy Philipps (Cougar Town), Sara Bareilles (Broadway's Waitress), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton), and Paula Pell (Wine Country, SNL) play former members of the '90s girl group Girls5eva, now in their 40s and riddled with real world grown-up problems—marriage, children, debt, joint pain, Real Housewives auditions. When a young rapper samples the group's one famous song, the four women reunite for a second chance at fame and glory. Ashley Park (Broadway's Mean Girls, Emily in Paris) has a recurring role as the band's original fifth member, the glue that held the group together back in the late ’90s who "had most experience going in, having been part of seven failed girl groups previously," according to Deadline.

"I wanted to write a show about women in my age group and be able to talk about all the things that you go through as being a woman in your forties,” Scardino said during a virtual TV Critics Association panel in February. "I just thought it was like the Venn diagram of interesting things of relatability of life in your 40s, and also putting it all up against the pop star world. It felt like a very fertile duet."

True to streaming form, all eight episodes of the first season will drop on Peacock on May 6.

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