Showtime Networks President David Nevins spoke to the Television Critics Association today, and the premium network’s plans for a Twin Peaks revival was a significant part of his announcements. We’re not really that surprised about this, though, mostly because she got to make a number of good episodes of a show that really never received the support it deserved over the years. Plans originally called for nine installments, but a recent update suggests that we’ll be getting even more new “Twin Peaks“. They’re going to shoot the whole thing and then they’re going to start posting. “It’s looking in great shape”.
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“I want it as badly and as soon as the biggest fans in the world want it”, Nevins said, according to TV Line.
As far as timing goes, Nevins noted that it’s still too soon to tell if the series will indeed be ready for 2016 – and not 2017, as Frost has implied. That will include “Russia, what is Putin up to?” I know what his shooting schedule and I’ll let him cut it into as many episodes as wants to. How many? Again, that’s to be determined, but clearly this will exceed the original nine that Showtime had sought; some reports later said the new series would extend over seventeen episodes. “We’ve finished the scripts, we start production in September, and that will be coming out on Showtime sometime in 2017″. “They’re going to decide”, Nevins said. Nevins is, as you’d expect, both optimistic and impatient.
Just in case you missed it, that’s an image of Twin Peaks reflected back in the cup of coffee. That sure sounds like Lynch is doing the whole thing, and the way production is arranged, is not dissimilar to what Cary Fukunaga did for the first season of “True Detective“. But most fans of Twin Peaks also agree that Fire Walk with Me, which was pure unadulterated Lynch, marks a creative low point for the series.
Lynch, he added, will shoot the entire series as a long movie, after which it will be divided into individual episodes.
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“Twin Peaks” followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after their homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is shockingly murdered. “25 years have passed but it resolves the questions left from the original series”. As a result of this, it is unclear as to exactly how many episodes will be in the latest season of Twin Peaks.
