Created by Meredith Scardino, Peacock’s Girls5eva follows a group of women 20 years after their late-’90s girl group, Girls5eva, had its one-hit wonder song.
They re-form Girls5eva to seek a second chance at pop stardom.The pilot episode, a nominee in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy race, begins with Dawn (Sara Bareilles) finding out that a rapper, Lil Stinker (Jeremiah Craft), has sampled the Girls5eva song in his latest hit.
She reconnects with the other members — Summer (Busy Phillips), Gloria (Paula Pell) and Wickie (Renée Elise-Goldsberry) — for the first time in 20 years to perform with Lil Stinker on The Tonight Show.Here, the Emmy-nominated writer of the script Meredith Scardino answers some questions about her work
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