# No longer a rumor. ‘Twin Peaks’ Returns As Showtime Limited Series \[merged threads, edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342 "2014-10-04T03:13:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/21 "2014-10-05T03:46:33Z")
I would like to say I have some standards, but I would watch whatever Twin Peaks product is put out there – good, bad, indifferent, a prequel, a sequel, a reboot, some completely different story set in the universe of Twin Peaks, whatever. I know it makes me sound like a crazy geezer, but DANG, THESE KIDS TODAY, they have no idea how completely different Twin Peaks was when it came out. It was like utterly new television. Even at its worst, what it was _trying_ to do had a million more levels than just about anything else out there. And the fandom, on the fledgling internet, was like a whole new on its own. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/22 "2014-10-05T04:02:59Z")
There does seem to be some interest in it among younger people, especially since it’s been on NetFlix. There was a Red Room recreation at the 2014 Burning Man festival. > **[The Entrance To The Black Lodge Was At Burning Man This Year (Video)](https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/inspiration/burning-man-twin-peaks-black-lodge/)** > > For 7 days in August 2014, the entrance to the Black Lodge appeared at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/23 "2014-10-05T08:19:57Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > I would like to say I have some standards, but I would watch whatever Twin Peaks product is put out there – good, bad, indifferent, a prequel, a sequel, a reboot, some completely different story set in the universe of Twin Peaks, whatever. > > I know it makes me sound like a crazy geezer, but DANG, THESE KIDS TODAY, they have no idea how completely different Twin Peaks was when it came out. It was like utterly new television. Even at its worst, what it was _trying_ to do had a million more levels than just about anything else out there. And the fandom, on the fledgling internet, was like a whole new on its own. In a sense they tried to remake it as [Carnivale](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319969/). They didn’t succeed. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/24 "2014-10-05T13:59:56Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > I would like to say I have some standards, but I would watch whatever Twin Peaks product is put out there – good, bad, indifferent, a prequel, a sequel, a reboot, some completely different story set in the universe of Twin Peaks, whatever. > > I know it makes me sound like a crazy geezer, but DANG, THESE KIDS TODAY, they have no idea how completely different Twin Peaks was when it came out. It was like utterly new television. Even at its worst, what it was _trying_ to do had a million more levels than just about anything else out there. And the fandom, on the fledgling internet, was like a whole new on its own. When I first saw it (about five years ago) my first thought was “If this had been on HBO a few years later it would have never been cancelled.” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/25 "2014-10-05T15:42:25Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > When I first saw it (about five years ago) my first thought was “If this had been on HBO a few years later it would have never been cancelled.” Yes. The network probably wouldn’t have sabotaged it by insisting that Lynch reveal the murderer. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/26 "2014-10-06T12:43:49Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > In a sense they tried to remake it as [Carnivale](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319969/). > > They didn’t succeed. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the two shows compared, but I honestly don’t get the connection. Is it mostly because Michael J. Anderson is in both? Even though they both deal with demons and the supernatural, they are so tonally, narratively, and visually different from each other. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/27 "2014-10-06T13:31:56Z")
There may be another possibility. This article claims that we are at the point where CGI can create realistic people, and create younger versions of actors. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11034343/When-will-CGI-actors-replace-human-ones.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11034343/When-will-CGI-actors-replace-human-ones.html) > [@](#): > > Brad Pitt’s reverse-ageing process in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for example, was created not with prosthetics but with computer-generated imagery (CGI). > > “Very few people watching that film even knew that [CGI] was going on,” says Darren Hendler, digital effects supervisor at Digital Domain. “We are at the point where we can create a digital version of an actor that is indistinguishable from the real person.” Wouldn’t it be cool if it could pick up where it left off 25 years ago? I can imagine a network like Showtime sinking money into the process because of how much it could save them in the future by not having to use real actors. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/28 "2014-10-06T13:36:36Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Anyone who hasn’t seen the \*Psych \*homage to Twin Peaks (called “Dual Spires” I believe) needs to get to their Netflix account, toot pronto! Episode 12 of the 5th season. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/29 "2014-10-06T15:00:30Z")
I saw a young woman in Greenwich Village last Halloween wrapped in plastic. I spoke to her and she said I was only the second person who knew what her costume was. Sad. Don Davis, who played Major Garland Briggs, died in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/30 "2014-10-06T16:15:58Z")
Huh. [It’s really happening](https://deadline.com/2014/10/twin-peaks-series-showtime-david-lynch-mark-frost-845804/) – a nine-episode run on Showtime, set in present day. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/31 "2014-10-06T16:24:29Z")
‘Twin Peaks’ Returns As Showtime Limited Series From David Lynch & Mark Frost > **[‘Twin Peaks’ Returns As Showtime Limited Series From David Lynch & Mark...](https://deadline.com/2014/10/twin-peaks-series-showtime-david-lynch-mark-frost-845804/)** > > Original creators David Lynch and Mark Frost will again executive produce the limited series of new episodes for the iconic cult TV show. > [@](#): > > The nine-episode series will go into production in 2015 for a premiere in 2016 to mark the 25th anniversary of when the series finished its run on ABC. In a fact that will delight Twin Peaks devotees, Lynch and Frost will write and produce all nine episodes, with Lynch set to direct every episode. > The new Twin Peaks will be set in the present day, more than two decades after the events in the first two seasons. It will continue the lore and story of the original series, with Lynch and Frost committed to providing long-awaited answers and, hopefully, a satisfying conclusion to the series. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/32 "2014-10-06T16:26:29Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > Huh. [It’s really happening](https://deadline.com/2014/10/twin-peaks-series-showtime-david-lynch-mark-frost-845804/) – a nine-episode run on Showtime, set in present day. I think this deserves a new thread with a new title. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=736496](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=736496) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/33 "2014-10-06T16:37:21Z")
also > **[‘Twin Peaks’ Co-Creator Mark Frost On Showtime Limited Series: How It...](https://deadline.com/2014/10/twin-peaks-return-showtime-series-mark-frost-interview-846363/)** > > David Lynch had publicly vowed that the book on Twin Peaks had been closed forever. Now he is revisiting the cult ABC supernatural mystery drama with a new nine-episode limited series on Showtime, … ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/34 "2014-10-06T16:41:25Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I could also be persuaded to do this. But only if they didn’t leave Agent Cooper possessed at the end. Exactly! I loved the first season and thought they should’ve just wrapped it up then. Stretching it out to two seasons just made it veer into camp and self-parody. And that ending - ugh! How cruel to do that to Agent Cooper. Hated hated _hated_ it. But I’ll probably check out the new series for completeness’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/35 "2014-10-06T17:10:23Z")
[Howard Borden]Hi, Bob![/H.B.] ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/36 "2014-10-06T17:14:29Z")
Awesome! Hopefully Audrey won’t take her teeth out before tying a cherry stem in a knot while in her mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/37 "2014-10-06T17:14:52Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > In a fact that will delight Twin Peaks devotees, Lynch and Frost will write and produce all nine episodes,\*\* with Lynch set to direct every episode.\*\* _dances with glee_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/38 "2014-10-06T17:15:53Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > _dances with glee_ No crossovers, damn it! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/39 "2014-10-06T17:21:54Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Awesome! Hopefully Audrey won’t take her teeth out before tying a cherry stem in a knot while in her mouth. Come on. She was 16, so 25 years later she’d be only 41. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342/40 "2014-10-06T17:23:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > No crossovers, damn it! Walter White was, in actuality, possessed by Bob. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342.md?page=3)