Exciting news for fans of Twin Peaks awaiting word on when they’ll get to see Showtime’s revival of the series we first found out about way back in 2014.
It’s been officially revealed that the new season—which was originally planned to arrive sometime in 2016—will now premiere on May 21st at 9PM on Showtime. Also announced is that the new season, which features an insane 217-name cast, will not be a shorter 10-12 episode season we’re used to seeing on channel’s like this. Instead, the Twin Peaks revival will run for 18 hour-long episodes.
Fear not, the revival of David Lynch and Mark Frost‘s ’90s mystery drama Twin Peaks we first heard about back in 2014 is still on its way to Showtime. We just have to wait until next year instead of getting it sometime this year as originally planned.
To help fans pass the time, the official cast has been revealed. That might not sound like something that would pass any time, but you’ve not yet seen the list. It clocks in at over 200 names, many of which are familiar—some returning stars reprising their roles, which are marked with an asterisk; others just familiar names from different places such as actors like Amanda Seyfried, Tim Roth, Monica Bellucci, and Michael Cera, musicians Trent Reznor and Eddie Vedder, and even MMA star Michael Bisping, just to give you a small sampling.
Back in May of 2013 Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos talked about the possibility of them reviving dead TV show favorites that were canceled far too early, such as Firefly, Jericho, and Twin Peaks.
As it turns out, one of those shows is now ready to rise from its grave. It has been announced that Twin Peaks, the popular mystery drama from David Lynch and Mark Frost that ran for two seasons from 1990 to 1991 (and was followed by a movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, in 1992), will be returning in 2016 on Showtime.
Showtime revealed the news in a video announcement, which can be seen below.
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Toys, hastily-assembled costumes, cardboard box “shields,” fake eyebrows, cheesy effects that make Mystery Science Theater 3000 look like 2001: A Space Odyssey, sock puppet “sandworms,” lots of overacting, and of course…space pen. Yes, friends, David Lynch‘s much-derided 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s landmark sci-fi novel Dune has become the latest film to receive its own sweded video.
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