Considering the delay on getting everything pinned down, this shouldn’t come as a complete surprise and now it’s official. The revival of Twin Peaks will not start until 2017.
Mark Frost, who created the series with acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch, revealed the news in an interview with the National Baseball Hall of Fame last week. He said that they are trying to do their best to make sure that Twin Peaks comes back even better than the original two-season show.
“A lot of people always look back at Twin Peaks and say that was the start of this explosion we’ve had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks,” Frost said. “The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We’re coming back with season three of Twin Peaks after a 25-year absence. We’ve finished the scripts, we start production in September, and that will be coming out on Showtime sometime in 2017.”
Frost is also writing a Twin Peaks book to cover the years inbetween the last episode of the original series and the new season.
Showtime originally hoped to have Twin Peaks return in 2016, but a contract dispute with Lynch made it look like the show wouldn’t even happen. But just weeks later, Lynch signed a deal with Showtime and the network said that it will even order more than nine episodes. Lynch is set to direct every episode and Kyle MacLachlan will be back to play agent Cooper.
Twin Peaks only ran two seasons from 1990-1991 on ABC. The show is distributed by CBS TV, which is why the revival will happen at CBS-owned Showtime.
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