Someone start brewing a damn good cup of coffee.
Cult television show Twin Peaks will return to television in 2016, according to a tweet by show creator David Lynch.
The acclaimed director made the announcement Monday. “Dear Twitter Friends…” reads the tweet, “it is happening again.”
The tweet is accompanied by a one-minute promotional clip for the new third season of Twin Peaks. The clip is posted to YouTube by Showtime. The new season, which Lynch will direct, will debut as a limited series on the network next year. The third season’s storyline is expected to continue where the second season left off.
Twin Peaks, created by Lynch and Mark Frost, first aired on ABC from 1990-1991. The mystery show set in Twin Peaks, Wash. followed the case of murdered high school beauty Laura Palmer, a case that was pursued by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper portrayed by Kyle MacLachlan. Rumors speculate that McLachlan will resume his role.
Writers Lynch and Frost are presently writing the new season, which is set in present day, according to Variety.
“We just had a feeling that this was something we created together and the only way we really we could see going back to it was if we did it ourselves,” said Frost, of his work with Lynch in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Monday. “We’re really excited that that’s how it turned out because I think that’s the right way to to do it. It’s going to rise or fall on our efforts, and our efforts alone and that’s how it should be judged.”
“I don’t know if I can speak (about the casting of the show) without giving stuff away,” remarked Frost, in the same interview. “The main way to think about it is that we’re going to write the show exactly as we see fit and hopefully we’ll find the circumstances to make it happen.”
The writer, creator and producer was especially mum when asked about the narrative of the third season.
“What I can tell you is there will be a very strong central storyline. And there will be lots of other places that we’ll go as well,” said Frost. “That’s really all I can say.”
The Twin Peaks reboot debuts in 2016 on Showtime — 25 years after it was first canceled on ABC.
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