More than a decade after she got off the screen, tonight's episode of "There Are Girls" returns in a new incarnation • Jennifer Bills ("Flash Dance") returns to star in the new series and feels it's a mission for the LGBT community

• "There are girls: the next generation." Jennifer Bills at center

More than a decade after it dropped, tonight's screen returns to the "There Are Girls," one of the groundbreaking series for the LGBT community. The new incarnation of the series, "There are Girls: The Next Generation," was also created by Jewish-American screenwriter and producer Eileen Chicken ("Empire," "The Story of a Slave"), and it goes back to the stories of the lesbian and bisexual women's gang in Los Angeles, when the original series premiered in 2004, it was defined as the proud female answer to "the most proud to have."

The new series is directed by Jennifer Bills, who plays Bette Porter who has grown ten years and ran for mayor of Los Angeles. Porter is trying to raise her teenage and rebellious daughter Angelica. Bette continues to accompany her longtime friends, successful and liberated hairstylist Shane (Katherine Monig, "Ray Donovan") whose partner passed away in the original series, and Alice (to wife Haley, "Bush") who became the talk show host.

Bills, 56, broke into Eighties in the successful movie "Flash Dance," in which she portrayed Alex, a factory welder by day and an exotic stripper by night, who dreams of becoming a professional dancer. The role made her a star, but she found it difficult to recapture the success and played a series of films that left no mark. "There are girls" gave her a new place.

In an interview to promote the new series, Bills said: "We are trying to put gender and sexuality issues on all fronts across the spectrum, all of which end up under one umbrella called Love. Following the recent US presidential election, I decided we had to do something and sent a text message to the creator of the series. I felt we were facing a tsunami. "

She said viewers' connection to the series is not necessarily out of identification with the heroine's sexual orientation. "It's a group of companies, really family members who have chosen each other. With this connection, anyone can identify," she said. "Of course, community members have the added value of watching the series because they are used to seeing themselves in sub-characters, almost never as a plot lead. A lot of LGBT representation in the series has often been seen as an attempt to fill a slot."

Bills added that she appreciates the younger generation in the LGBT community. "They re-dictate the laws," she said. "They fight for no one to define the experience they are going through. The perceptions we know are outdated in their eyes, and that is a radical and exciting thought in my eyes. "

"There are Girls: The Next Generation," tonight at 10pm on the yes EDGE channel

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