Darren Star on "Younger’s" Streaming Resurgence & Prospects of Revival

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Darren Star on "Younger’s" Streaming Resurgence & Prospects of Revival
by Nellie Andreeva
June 23, 2025


Of the hundreds of half-hour comedies available on streaming, one title dominated the U.S. rankings for the first five months of 2025, Darren Star‘s 2015 TV Land series "Younger", whose seven seasons took seven of the Top 10 spots in U.S. viewership for January-May for its Netflix run, according to data recently released by Luminate.

Season 1 ranked the highest, at #3, logging 2.4B views, with the rest of the seasons charting at #5-#10 with viewership between 1.4B-1.9B.



Star, who praised "Younger‘s" original run on TV Land as “a wonderful, wonderful experience, because they were really supportive,” had been envisioning the series eventually getting on a streamer while he was making it for the Paramount-owned cable channel — and he built it that way.

“It had a small, loyal fan base, but it was restricted,” he said its run on TV Land. “I was happy to have done as many seasons as we did because I hoped that when it was all done, that it would find a second home, that they would find a streaming platform. In fact, when I was doing Younger, it was made to be bingeable, every episode sort of had a cliffhanger. I thought, Oh, this could get on streaming, it’s going to feel very streamable and bingeable.

So I was hoping but you never know — I mean, my dream was to see the show get acquired by Netflix, and it was wonderful when it happened. I wasn’t sure, I could imagine how well it would do, but I just wanted it to have an opportunity to be seen, exposed to a wider audience.”




Seeing "Younger" take seven of the top 10 comedy slots on the Luminate ranker “was surprising to me,” Star admitted.

He added, “I mean, anecdotally, from people that I spoke to, I knew people were finding and watching it, but I didn’t know that because Netflix doesn’t necessarily share those numbers, so they were a nice surprise.”

“I just feel like people weren’t finding it on Hulu. It does speak to the power of Netflix and the algorithm, I guess, I really don’t know why it didn’t. People didn’t have an awareness, I remember it being on Hulu, and even I would have a hard time finding it. On Netflix, it was on my homepage.”




Could "Younger‘s" successful run on Netflix lead to a followup?

Noting that any conversations would be between Netflix and series producer MTV Entertainment Studios, Star admitted that “it would be a fun conversation to have.”



Star, who confirmed that “they haven’t approached me about it yet,” would be open to the idea if it presents itself.

“I would do some sort of revival. It’s something I would be very excited to pursue, and just in these conversations I’ve had with the cast, it’s something they would be excited to do if the timing was right for everyone.

I have to say, the cast had the most amazing chemistry with each other, and it was a real, delightful experience for all of us to make that show together.”

https://deadline.com/2025/06/younger...ar-1236438882/