Five-Star Weekend is coming back for Season 2 — and the original cast aren’t going anywhere.
Five-Star Weekend isn’t just a pleasant surprise for its network — it’s planted its flag as a legitimate mainstream hit. There’ll be more glossy reunions, group selfies, and probably too much wine before long.
If you were wondering which show managed to finally crack Peacock's streaming vault wide open, the answer is Five-Star Weekend. This light-on-its-feet dramedy about a divorced food blogger's big attempt at a ‘five-star weekend' with every major friend from her past somehow turned into the platform’s biggest success story to date. It's barely been out, but not only is it getting a second series — honestly, they’d be silly not to — it's smashed all sorts of records for Peacock, which, frankly, needed the win.
Five-Star Weekend racked up 1.8 billion minutes viewed and is now Peacock’s all-time top scripted series by overall reach.
The Story, The Cast, The Numbers
Based on Elin Hilderbrand's 2023 novel, the show has Jennifer Garner leading as Hollis, a glossy lifestyle blogger newly single after a divorce. Feeling a bit unmoored, she invites her various besties — all from different chapters of her life — for the kind of all-in ‘ultimate girls’ weekend’ you normally only see in adverts for posh wine. Sugar-rush premise aside, it’s the cast that does the heavy lifting. Garner’s flanked by Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, D'Arcy Carden and Gemma Chan, which is, as ensemble line-ups go, not too shabby.
- Five-Star Weekend premiered on 9 July 2026. Within its first two weeks, it ranked in the Top 5 streaming originals, according to early Nielsen figures.
Pleasingly for the book’s publisher, the splashy adaptation even knocked Hilderbrand’s original 2023 novel back onto the New York Times fiction Top 10. Not something you see every time a streamer rolls out its latest ‘must watch’.
Yes, There’s More Coming
Peacock’s officially renewed it for Series 2. Hardly shocking, given the stats above and the fact that this is currently the streamer’s only mega-smash after a year that saw it drop shows like Ponies, Ted and Poker Face in fairly short order. The official renewal also came with a round of celebratory statements from everyone you’d expect, but at least this lot seem genuinely chuffed. Series creator Bekah Brunstetter, much loved in TV circles for This Is Us and American Gods, is sticking around too.
Jennifer Garner, who’s also an executive producer, put it like this in a message to fans:
‘Regina, Chloe, Gemma, D’Arcy and I have had the best time talking to people about “The Five Star Weekend.” We’re so happy you love it as much as we loved making it for you. If you’re curious about what’s going to happen next, imagine how we feel! We’re grateful to Elin, Bekah, our producers, directors and Peacock for hosting the ultimate girls’ weekend that will be season two.’
Bekah Brunstetter, for her part, sounded properly delighted at the chance to keep going:
‘It’s such a joy and privilege to create a world that people want to keep living in. I’m so thrilled by the chance to give fans of the show more time with the stars, and dig even further into these incredible characters. Knowing how deeply committed they are to this trip, I can’t wait to take them on their next adventure.’
Lisa Katz, boss of scripted content at NBC & Peacock, also chipped in, saying viewers had taken the story of friendship and reconnection to heart and thanked the cast and crew for making the book-to-TV leap work. No scrapping this one for spare parts (unlike some other series Peacock has recently let go).