Twin Peaks 2016
 

No.Not Dolly Parton this time .LOL...............

Wow .One of my favorite TV shows is coming back to TV in 2016.


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...006-story.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks


I love David's movies and TV shows.

Also his music soundtracks.

I wonder if they can hire Stevie for a part.


With all of the new technology with computers and with DNA and other stuff .They probably can pin point who murdered Laura Palmer.

Oh my god!
 

I've always loved Twin Peaks!
I didn't like very much the second season, in my opinion it was obvious that david Lynch didn't want to reveal the identity of Bob so soon, but the network obliged him to do so or he would have had to cancel the show since the tv ratings became low because it was competing with a big event (super bowl?) and was changed airing time to late evening.
I wonder how David Lynch will get back after 25 years...

Since the show will be on Showtime which means it wont have the viewers like it had with ABC years ago .

I more likely have to watch it online like I watched the new TNT 's Dallas and HBO's Boardwalk Empire.

I'll have to wait the italian dubbing to watch it then, it is unlikely I'll find a version with english or italian subtitles so easily.
I've also read that is sure that Kyle Mc Lachlan will return!

If its a hit .It probably be on DVD with your subtitles.

Yes I've read that too that Kyle Mc Lachlan will be back.
I wonder if the other actors will come back in the show.

I hope the italian official DVD won't take biblical time.I'm still waiting for the italian release of this: http://www.amazon.com/Twin-Peaks-Ent.../dp/B00KCTG4PO.
Did you buy it? I know there is a lot of unreleased material but it's very expensive so I don't know if it's worth it
I hope Sherilynn Fenn will return, I truly loved her character, especially in the first season! I bet Sheryl lee will return as well, she hasn't had an important role in a while.

Or it will pop up online somewhere like everything does.I found some of the episodes from the original series on Youtube years ago.

Twin Peaks couldn't carry Peyton Place's dance-off.

What does that mean?

It means that Twin Peaks is a mere footnote to Peyton Place's standing as tv's peak achievement.

Ah! I don't always catch metaphores.
I've never seen Peyton Place because I've never found the storyline interesting, my only favourite 60's series are "Alfred Hitchcock presents" and "The twilight zone", but I guess they are two completely different genres of fiction so it's useless to compare it if not subjectively.

Twin Peaks is exactly the same genre as Peyton Place--and is very minor and meagre in comparison. (p.s. -- and I like Twin Peaks! It's just insignificant)

I didn't know Peyton Place had any supernatural or mystical elements, did it?
The only thing that the two series have in common is the revealing of the hidden secrets of the people living in a small respectable town.
By the way David Lynch is a very talented director, and while I may agree that he's more suited for the big screen, I really love the work he did in the first series of Twin Peaks.
I know the book of "Peyton Place" is quite an important novel, but the tv series follows it very loosely.

Wow Peyton Place goes back in time in the 1960's.For some reason I never got into that show.I'll have to look it up on Youtube or somewhere else.

Ok, I don't often admit this, but when I read about Twin Peaks returning, I got kind of giddy & light-headed. Yep, ol' chiliD kinda swooned! :lol:

I LOVED TWIN PEAKS!!! No, I really did...I was a TP FREAK!!! I scoured every scene of every episode for clues.

I have the ENTIRE series (commercial free...via a VCR's "pause" button) on VHS!!! I hope that they'll re-release the original series on Blue-Ray now. I had the original pilot episode on LASERDISC!!! That screwed me up because the LASERDISC version of the pilot was self-standing...the plot was wrapped up in that one 2 hr episode!!!! But, the way they wrapped it up was totally different that how they (kind of) wrapped up the 2 season series. Weird.

I used to host Twin Peaks marathon weekends at my apt. about 6 or 8 of my other TP geek friends would get all wired on coffee & cherry pie and watch the entire series in one long fell swoop, from Friday night until we finished the last episode of season 2. Usually about 4 or 5am on Sunday. Talk about some zombie'd burn outs who would finally exit my apartment! LOL!! We were NUTS!!! (but we weren't "wrapped in plastic"!!!! :lol: )

There is already a blu-ray, it's this link I already posted: http://www.amazon.com/Twin-Peaks-Ent.../dp/B00KCTG4PO

I just sold off my entire collection of the fanzine Wrapped In Plastic =( One wonders if I had kept them if they would have sold for more. Would also be great if that mag came back. I never saw Peyton Place but that magazine totally poured over the comparisons.
Lynch hasn't been up to his absurd best as of late, so I'm SUPER hopeful that the return of TP is a success.

Yea.Thanks for the story.hahahaha. I was glued to the TV when it first aired and also VHS record it at the time.It rerun on cable in the later years and i VHS record that round.Now god knows where those VHS tapes are and if they will play again.
A couple years ago I found the complete show online and I got it here on my external drive.

I hope the show will be interesting like the original show.


I miss out on the fanzines.You probably make a killing when the new show airs.
I never seen much of Payton Place myself.I probably was busy watching the Brady Bunch,Andy Griffith show ,The Flintstones,Beverly Hillbillies Green Acres and Gilligan's Island at the time .

The new remakes usually go to pot.I see the new Hawaii Five O is doing great on TV.
I hope the new Twin Peaks becomes a hit.

The Secret Lives of Twin Peaks, Novel by Mark Frost Due Fall 2015
mark-frost
They’re filled with secrets!

In another surprise move by one half of the show’s creators, Mark Frost announced today that he has been working on a Twin Peaks novel called The Secret Lives of Twin Peaks that reveals “what happened to the people of that iconic fictional town since we last saw them 25 years ago.” The book also offers “a deeper glimpse into the central mystery that was only touched on by the original series.”

“This has long been a dream project of mine that will bring a whole other aspect of the world of Twin Peaks to life, for old fans and new. I couldn’t be more thrilled.”
—Mark Frost

The book, published by Flatiron Books, will go on sale late 2015 before the new Twin Peaks episodes on Showtime in 2016. The Secret Lives of Twin Peaks has also been picked up worldwide: in the United Kingdom (Pan Macmillan), Finland (Otava), Italy (Mondadori), Brazil (Companhia das Letras) and Germany (Kiepenheuer & Witsch). UPDATE: More foreign editions are expected.

Keep an eye on Welcome to Twin Peaks for more details about The Secret Lives of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost, fall 2015.

This will be the fourth official tie-in book after The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer (1990) by Jennifer Lynch (Amazon), The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes (1991) by Scott Frost (Amazon) and Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town (1991) by David Lynch, Mark Frost and Richard Saul Wurman (Amazon). Also check out Mark Frost’s previous books over at Amazon.

From the press release:

The Secret Lives of Twin Peaks



Visit http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/news/t...#ixzz3InACxNmn

My peeps!!
 

Heh. HUGE TP fan here and I think I may still have some Wrapped in Plastic issues somewhere. Got two packs of those TP cards as well, one opened, and one......... still wrapped in plastic. ;)

My friend in high school got me hooked on the show back in 1993-1994. She had the series on VHS and we would walk across the street from the school to her house and watch half an episode during lunchtime.

She and I went to meet Mark Frost at some bookstore. He was promoting his book, The Six Messiahs. We tried not to be THOSE Twin Peaks fans, but we still were. LOL When he did a Q&A, I asked him if he'd still been in contact with David Lynch. He was very nice and said yes, he and David did talk occasionally. Neat experience.

When I went to Seattle to see Lindsey back in November 2006, I took a tour that went to Snoqualmie Falls and the North Bend area just to see some TP sites! :thumbsup: It rained the entire day and winds were upwards of 90mph that day, but I was so excited to see the area. I really wanna go back sometime and see more of it in better weather.

Agent Cooper in his tux lookin' like Cary Grant....sigh....

Looking forward to the future TP TV show. :)

Was unboxing some stuff I got when I emptied my storage unit. Found my copy of Laura Palmer's Diary!!!! Sat there & read almost the entire thing again!! :thumbsup:

Wow I forgot about that diary.I got a copy somewhere here .I got to dig it out and read it myself.

I just found this online from the Dailymail which is about Sheryl Lee.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ork-broke.html


The Twin Peaks star left broke after rare blood disorder crippled her career: Sheryl Lee reveals how she was forced to sell her home and even TV memorabilia

By Bella Brennan for MailOnline

Published: 12:18 EST, 11 November 2014 | Updated: 03:55 EST, 12 November 2014



She rose to fame playing Laura Palmer and Maddy Reguson in the Nineties cult series Twin Peaks.

But actress Sheryl Lee, 47, has revealed to the Evening Standard newspaper that her life has been put on hold after she was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder called neutropenia - an abnormally low level of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell - in 2007.

Speaking to the publication the star said: 'I've had to sell everything for financial reasons. From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years.'

'I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much and if you look sick it's hard to get a job.'

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Struggling: Twin Peaks actress Sheryl Lee has revealed to that her life has been put on hold after she was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder called neutropenia in 2007 leaving her broke and unable to find work
Icon: Sheryl played Laura Palmer and Maddy Reguson in the Nineties cult series Twin Peaks
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Icon: Sheryl played Laura Palmer and Maddy Reguson in the Nineties cult series Twin Peaks

Sheryl, who was once married to Neil Diamond's son Jesse Diamond, said she starred in a few independent films however acknowledged they don't pay nearly enough.

Sadly the disease was so crippling the blonde beauty was forced to sell her house, and even more tragically her Twin Peaks souvenirs, in a bid to make some money.

Sheryl is a VIP guest in London this week for the Twin Peaks UK Festival, which will be held in east London's Whitechapel.
Radiant in red: The actress was pictured in happier times in 1999
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Radiant in red: The actress was pictured in happier times in 1999

Meanwhile, Twin Peaks creator David Lynch recently announce he will be creating a third season of the show, tipped for a 2016 release.

'Dear Twitter friends... it is happening again,' David tweeted to his 1.8m followers, posting a link to an official announcement that confirmed a nine-episode run will be shown in early 2016 on the Showtime cable network.

'The groundbreaking television phenomenon, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winner Twin Peaks will return as a new limited series on Showtime in 2016,' the statement revealed.

It has been 25 years since the series was abruptly cancelled in 1991 on the ABC network.

However, a return to the show had been hoped by many after murdered beauty queen Laura Palmer whispered to FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) that she would see him again in 25 years.

The primetime drama was set in 1989, so it looks like Laura might make good on that promise.
Twin Peaks is set to return with a new series in 2016
Cult classic: Sheryl also starred in the prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, along with Grace Zabriskie, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise
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Cult classic: Sheryl also starred in the prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, along with Grace Zabriskie, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise

The statement added that series creators and executive producers David Lynch and Mark Frost 'will write and produce all nine episodes of the limited series, and Lynch will direct every episode.'

The series became of the most top-rated shows of 1990, and was listed as one Time Magazine's 'Best TV Shows of All-TIME' in 2007.

The pilot was the highest-rated two-hour television event for the 1989–90 season with a 22 rating, and was viewed by 33 per cent of the audience. Once it began airing on a regular basis, the show scored ABC's highest ratings in four years.

However, midway through the second season, a major plot point (ie the murderer of Laura Palmer) was revealed and the series began to fizzle in the ratings.
Cult show 'Twin Peaks' centered around Laura Palmer's murder

A week after the second season's 15th episode fell to a devastating 85th place in the TV rankings, the network placed the show on indefinite hiatus.

Lynch later stated that he regretted caving in to network pressure to wrap up the Laura Palmer storyline, calling it a 'tough act to follow'.

The conclusion of the series had fans in a tizzy, as the unintentional finale left the series and its characters up in the air.

After it left TV sets, the series spawned the 1992 movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, which only focused on the last seven days of Laura's life and offered few answers to the disturbing series finale.
Blonde beauty: The stunning actress has had a tough time after being diagnosed with neutropenia, an abnormally low level of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell
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Blonde beauty: The stunning actress has had a tough time after being diagnosed with neutropenia, an abnormally low level of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell




After Twin Peaks my life went downhill … I had to sell everything says Sheryl Lee - Celebrity News - Showbiz - London Evening Standard

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Wow its been 25 years when TP premiered .Stevie's OSOTM was out and toured .A year later FM releases Behind the Mask and a tour to follow.

I hope they have a awesome music soundtrack on the upcoming show like they had on the original show.The show was ahead of its time with its sound without todays computerize sound mixing and effects.TP was one of the great shows with stereo surround sound back in its early years.

That article on Sheryl Lee got an update, one directly from her stating that things are not as bad as they seem (ed) and that she was doing much better. IMHO-the author seemed deeply concerned and saddened by her issues, and I thought it to be heartfelt. Anyway, she is doing well, and supposedly has already been asked by Lynch to return!!!

I forgot I have the whole trade card set. Along the way I lost the box. There were singles issued packs and then a full set in a box. Damnit :mad:

I am INSANELY jealous of you wondergirl that you got to meet Mark Frost & get a book signed. I am tooootally nutty for the List of 7. I am also reading the second installment of a young adult series he's written in the past couple years. I love his stories, and was dismayed that he went from LO7/T6M to stories on espionage & golf (BRING) lol. I believe in an author writing what he loves the most, but damn....until this YA series, I was so bored with his releases. Get the spooky & strange back dude! lol

I kept a few WIP issues. Some were dupes, and one I had signed by Chris Isaak...it was the CI special issue. Someone related to Stevie AND TP?! Be still my beating heart. lol

Just before moving to Oregon, I made a pilgrimage to Canada that took me thru Washington. Ofcourse I made a detour to the diner & lodge where the opening sequence was filmed. They still have TP festivals there every year, but they are EXPENSIVE! I hope they revive a bit w/ the new shows-and come down in cost a little. I'd like to attend one. Maybe a bunch of us Ledgies could make a Stevie/TP road trip. lol

Oh also Macfan...there has been word for some time that Death Waltz records will be doing a TP soundtrack re-issue. IDK if you are familiar w/ that label, but they make AMAZEBALL issues, and they will be quick to sell out and costly as hell, but surely glorious. Some new music by Lynch, Badalamenti (sp?) and Cruise wouldn't hurt either :thumbsup:

Thanks Anita for the info.

David Lynch: every picture tells a (small) story
18/11/14, 14.59 | NIELS RUËLL


There was widespread rejoicing at the news that David Lynch will soon start making a new series of the groundbreaking, wonderfully mysterious TV series Twin Peaks. But first, he is exhibiting some 40 photographs in Brussels, in the basement of the Galeries cinema, under the heading Small Stories. When he spoke to AGENDA, he didn’t announce that “The owls are not what they seem”, but told us that “the ideas dictate everything.” Which is true, too, of course.

Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks – some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery – the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death.” Those words introduced Twin Peaks, widely regarded as heralding a golden age of TV series. On my way to meet David Lynch, I thought of that intriguing intro. Firstly, because of the bombshell news that he is planning new episodes. And secondly, because that mix of strange stories also seems to characterise his photographic exhibition at the Galeries art-house cinema. It didn’t get a title like “Small Stories” by chance: each picture tells a small story from Lynch’s extraordinary world.

While those tales are dark, the Lynch I meet is sunny. That may have something to do with transcendental meditation and with the “damn fine cup of coffee” he is drinking, but what I see above all is a man, in clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, looking forward to a full day of artistic activity. We meet in Idem, an old art printing house in Paris that Lynch can’t tear himself away from since discovering its venerable presses, on which he makes lithographs. What’s more, Patrice Forest, the man behind the printing works, has arranged a meeting with Paul McCarthy, a well-known US artist who removed his work Tree from the Place Vendôme after it was vandalised by one of the many opponents who saw in its inflatable Christmas tree a butt plug. “It’s the first time I’ve met Paul,” observes Lynch with a smile, as McCarthy gets to work etching alongside us. “Thirty-seven years ago, he called me on the phone; we were going to have lunch, but it never happened.”

What do you like so much about this place?
David Lynch: I come here every day when I’m in Paris. I like the mood of it, the machines, the people, the history, and the smell of the ink. I’ve been coming here since 2007 and I’ve made over 200 lithographs – and on top of that, some woodcuts. I made some lithos in the 1960s, but I only really developed a taste for it when I discovered this place. A lot of people worked here. That’s part of the beautiful history. Those stones you see over there were probably used by Picasso, Matisse, and Miró. A romantic thought – and pretty interesting, no?

The Brussels exhibition is called “Small Stories”. Stories, I understand: the pictures are highly narrative. But why “small”?
Lynch: Because they’re not big. [Laughs]

What’s the difference between a small story and a big one?
Lynch: Told in a book, a small story would have very few sentences. A big story would be a thick book.

The photographs show a soft spot for decay.
Lynch: I like a lot of different things. One of them is decay. My initials are DKL, David Keith Lynch. My father started calling me “DK” when I was little. When my parents realised what they were saying, they stopped. [Laughs heartily] Perhaps that made me fall in love with decay. I don’t remember when it started, but I like organic phenomena. When you look closely at a sore or a cut that gets infected, you notice that it’s incredible. When the word “sore” comes up, many people tune out, but if they could see it pure, they would see it’s quite beautiful. It’s all part of the process. There is the going up and the going down. Both sides are beautiful.

Why black-and-white?
Lynch: I’ve made colour photos. Even some factory photographs were in colour. But the kind of factories I like should be in black and white. It’s kind of the world you’re in…I guess. Black and white is kinda magical. It takes you one step away from reality. It’s the greatest medium to go back in time and it’s graphic. It’s purer. But I don’t mind colour for certain things. It just depends. There are black-and-white ideas and there are colour ideas. Blue Velvet had to be a colour film. Eraserhead is a black-and-white film. The Elephant Man is a black-and-white film. It all depends on the ideas, the mood, the feel.

Why is there so much darkness in your work?
Lynch: Many ideas that come are conjured up by the world we live in. Right now the world is pretty dark. There’s also an absurd kind of a humour that I like. It’s not just dark things: a lot of light things come along too. A story can hold all those things at once. Besides, you don’t have to suffer to show suffering. You can show terrible stories and be happy in the doing of it. The ideas come and that’s what you fall in love with. You love the story and what cinema can bring to the story and you work with that. Some stories have life-and-death situations and torment; others don’t.

I’m from Brussels, so I have to ask whether you like René Magritte?
Lynch: I love Magritte. He’s one of my all-time favourites. I like a lot of his paintings. I just saw the Magritte show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and I was overwhelmed by The Menaced Assassin. You know the painting with two people hiding outside the door, inside the door there’s a woman on a doctor’s thing and there’s a phonograph? It’s a mysterious, beautiful thing.

We know you as the director of Blue Velvet and Lost Highway, but you also take photographs, paint, etch, and make music. Which of the arts first attracted you as a child?
Lynch: When I was little, I liked to draw. My mother refused to give me colouring books. That is so beautiful. She convinced my father to bring home scrap paper from his office. I had stacks of white paper with writing on the back and I drew knives, pistols, and airplanes. My favourite was a Browning automatic water-cooled submachine gun.

That’s a lot of violence for a kid.
Lynch: Yeah. It was right after the war. Weapons were still in the air. I don’t know how.

What about photography and film?
Lynch: I never took photos until 1979, when I bought my first camera. I loved my Canon. And I never really learned filming. I only started because I wanted paintings to move. I knew the principle of stop-motion. I knew I needed a camera with single-frame capacity. I got the cheapest one that I could find: a Bell & Howell camera. I never really took on motion pictures until I got my Bolex camera.

The medium is just a medium?
Lynch: All these media are thrilling to me and to many people. Ideas take you different places. In places like this [the printing works – NR], the ideas take you to lithographs and woodcuts. The ideas dictate everything. If you have cinema ideas, you write them down and over time you work on a script. That hasn’t happened in a long time. Well, it sort of happens now.

How come you haven’t had any more cinema ideas since Inland Empire in 2006?
Lynch: It’s a different kind of world now for cinema. Alternative cinema is more difficult now. It is harder to get the funding arranged and to drum up enthusiasm and there is nowhere to show alternative films. Except at film festivals. The art houses are gone. To me, a feature film is built for the big, big screen with great sound. It’s very depressing if you can’t do that.

Have there been film projects you haven’t been able to carry through?
Lynch: If I really wanted to, maybe I could have persisted. Anyway, we’re gonna make Twin Peaks now.

That’s for the small screen.
Lynch: No that’s for the biggest screen you can get in your house. I’ve made television before. You build it for that. At the time, it was network television: the sound wasn’t good. Now it’s not so bad any more.

Is the difference not mainly that you now actually get a lot of freedom and TV-makers don’t have to restrain themselves any more?
Lynch: I know. But we had freedom on Twin Peaks. Way more than you imagine. I don’t know how it happened, but there were hardly any restrictions. So it’s not like we’re saying now: “Oh boy, we’re gonna really do some raunchy things.” We’re gonna do the same things, but in better quality. And film remains the best quality.

The prospect of new episodes was welcomed worldwide. Does that enthusiasm touch you?
Lynch: It’s beautiful. I like the world too. Somehow back then ideas came and a world was made. It’s great that people like that world and want to go back into it.


What triggered the new ideas?
Lynch: Lunch. With Mark Frost. In Los Angeles. Musso & Frank.

The actors from 25 years ago must be dying to get involved again. Is that so?
Lynch: I’m not talking about Twin Peaks now. Not until 2016.

Your work is often described as “dreamlike”. But in your book I read that dreams rarely trigger your work.
Lynch: Hardly ever. But I love dream logic. There’s something about a dream that tells you a bunch of things in strange ways. Cinema can do those things too: abstractions that conjure up something that’s hard to say in words. That’s a magical thing about cinema. Sound and pictures (and the way they’re put together) can do some fantastic things. But first you need cinema ideas.

Have you become better at catching ideas over the years?
Lynch: It’s like fishing. You need patience. A desire is like the bait on a hook. If you desire ideas, you become a magnet. Ideas start swimming in. Then you start catching them. You may not fall in love with the ones you’re catching, but once in a while you get a fish you fall in love with. It may just be a fragment of something that will be big. This fragment holds a promise. That one fragment you love is more bait on the hook. More ideas come swimming in. Just like in the ocean you have schools of different kinds of fish. Somehow the fish come swimming in that are tied to the captured fish you love. The more you have, the faster they come. I see an idea like it was on a television screen in my brain. Something happens and there it is. It’s not like the whole thing is there. But you see enough of it, hear enough of it, feel enough of it to have a fragment that you fall in love with. But you can’t force them to come. They are like gifts on Christmas morning.

Are you afraid of the day the ideas will run out?
Lynch: I’m never gonna run out of ideas.

http://www.agendamagazine.be/en/blog...ls-small-story

Just found my set of those, too, this past weekend! Getting rid of a storage unit is almost like opening a time capsule vault! :lol:

Here's How Showtime Got David Lynch to Revive Twin Peaks Reversing the usual pitch, the network's president did the begging
By Jason Lynch
January 13, 2015, 3:19 PM ESTTelevision

Kyle MacLachlan is back for more coffee.
Showtime had the good fortune to make its Television Critics Association winter press tour appearance less than 24 hours after its freshman series The Affair won two Golden Globes Awards, including the prize for best drama series.
But the network's biggest TCA headlines involved a show that won't even premiere until 2016: Twin Peaks, which creators David Lynch and Mark Frost are reviving as a nine-episode limited series 25 years after the original went off the air.
"We almost broke the Internet last fall" when the deal was announced, said Showtime Networks president David Nevins, who then proceeded to try and do it again by bringing out Kyle MacLachlan—dressed as FBI Agent Dale Cooper—and saying he will reprise his role in the revival.
"I think you need a damn good cup of coffee!" MacLachlan told Nevins, referencing one of Cooper's signature lines. He then bid reporters farewell by saying, "May the forest be with you!" (While MacLachlan was the first cast member revealed, Nevins said that many other actors from the original run will also return.)
Nevins said that when he first met with Lynch and Frost about the project, in a twist on the usual pitching process, "I was kind of begging them and hoping to pass muster with David Lynch."
What sealed the deal: Lynch sparked to the "violent, weird" artwork in Nevins' office (not a big surprise, if you've ever seen any Lynch films, or Peaks itself), including one piece featuring "a bookshelf falling on a young girl; it's unclear which direction it's going. I think he liked it, and we were off in business." Nevins' only demand of Lynch: that he agree to direct all nine episodes, which he did.
The timing for the show's revival seems perfect, given the "I'll see you again in 25 years" reference in Twin Peaks' series finale. Lynch "pays attention to that kind of numerology in a big way," Nevins said.
Now that the deal is clinched, Nevins says his job boils down to "more or less, writing checks and leaving them alone. It's David's show, it's Mark's show, I will be the grateful recipient of it," he said. "I will say that they have been very specific in promising closure, and that's exciting. … From what I've seen, this is going to live up to expectations and then some."
Production will begin later this year, and while locations haven't been finalized, "I hope to go back to Washington," where the series was shot, said Nevins.
While Twin Peaks' limited series model has gained traction in the past year, with shows like True Detective and Fargo, Nevins said that aside from Peaks, he is resisting that trend. He feels it goes against Showtime's business model.
"The core of our business, and what I believe that vast majority of audiences want ... [is] to make a long-term relationship with characters that they can grow and change with," he said. "We're a subscription service, so our business is constructed on: fall in love and keep paying."


http://www.adweek.com/news/televisio...n-peaks-162337

David Lynch Tweets Picture of Kyle MacLachlan With Coffee, Internet Goes Crazy
By SARENE LEEDS


When David Lynch announced he would be rebooting his classic 1990s TV thriller “Twin Peaks” for a limited-series run in 2016, Kyle MacLachlan didn’t hesitate his enthusiasm in slipping back into the role of Special Agent Dale Cooper, posting this tweet:


But we didn’t get our official answer on the matter until last night, when series co-creator Lynch tweeted this confirmation – along with a telling photo of MacLachlan holding his character’s signature cup of coffee – that Dale Cooper, black suit and all, would be returning to “Twin Peaks.”

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Welcome back to #TwinPeaks Special Agent Dale Cooper! @Kyle_MacLachlan returns in '16 on @SHO_Network #damnfinecoffee

The official Twitter handle for Showtime – which has picked up the nine-episode series – also tweeted out this pic from the TCAs of network president David Nevins and MacLachlan enjoying a “damn fine cup of coffee“:

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#Showtime Networks' president David Nevins & @Kyle_MacLachlan enjoying some #damnfinecoffee #TwinPeaks #TCA15



http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/...et-goes-crazy/

Laura Palmer is Returning to Twin Peaks
Her boyfriend Bobby will be there, too.
BY MELISSA LOCKER JANUARY 18, 2015 2:10 PM

25 years ago, Laura Palmer promised she would return to Twin Peaks. Now, it’s officially happening.


Actress Sheryl Lee, who played the prom queen in the original series is on-board for the nine new Twin Peaks episodes coming to Showtime next year. She’s not coming to the dance alone, either, but is bringing her leather jacket-wearing boyfriend, Bobby (Dana Ashbrook) with her. They made their announcement at the Twin Peaks UK Festival, according to fan site Welcome to Twin Peaks.


It remains to be seen how the two characters will be incorporated into the cult hit, particularly because the new season is set in present day—25 years after the haunting finale in season two. As anyone who had an “I Killed Laura Palmer” t-shirt in the ’90s can calculate: That means Palmer will have been dead for a long time.

Though the show’s third season won’t premiere until 2016, there’s plenty to keep fans of the cult show happy—David Lynch is directing all the episodes and Kyle MacLachlan is returning for another damn fine cup of coffee. There is also an exciting rumor going around that Sherilyn Fenn—last seen playing an FBI wife on Showtime’s Ray Donovan—will reprise her role as bad-girl-in-bobby-socks, Audrey Horne. Showtime has said that many of the original cast will be returning for the third season.

As for how Showtime landed the television coup, a new interview in AdWeek sheds some light on the mystery. Turns out that contrary to long-established Hollywood reboot rituals, Showtime president David Nevins was the one chasing down Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost. “I was kind of begging them and hoping to pass muster with David Lynch,” he said. Once he got them on board with the idea, he stepped back, saying his contribution now is "more or less, writing checks and leaving them alone. It's David’s show, it's Mark [Frost]’s show, I will be the grateful recipient of it.”

Nevins added one more teaser for fans: “I will say that they have been very specific in promising closure, and that’s exciting. … From what I’ve seen, this is going to live up to expectations and then some.”

All-new episodes of Twin Peaks will premiere on Showtime in 2016.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misidentified which vehicle was the preferred mode of transport of Bobby, one of Laura Palmer’s several boyfriends. Bobby does not usually ride a motorcycle, unlike Palmer’s other boyfriend, James.



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Twin Peaks return might not happen after all
Bad news for #damngoodcoffee fans: David Lynch hints that planned new series might not go ahead after all
By Rebecca Hawkes

Last year, Twin Peaks fans across the world were given cause to celebrate, after director David Lynch announced that a second series of his cult Nineties TV show was in the works, and scheduled to be broadcast in 2016 on the US network Showtime.
Now, Lynch has thrown cold water over everyone's hopes, by hinting that the project may be in trouble.
"I'm not sure at this point if it's happening," the director told an audience at the opening of the Between Two Worlds exhibition in Brisbane, when asked if the planned reboot was definitely going ahead. He then stated that there were "complications".
An unnamed source told the website Welcome to Twin Peaks that, while the script for the series is complete, “contract negotiations aren’t going as expected". Last year, it was reported that a number of original Twin Peaks cast-members, including Kyle MacLachlan, would reprising their roles in the new series.
The video below, which shows Lynch speaking during an episode of the ABC News show The Mix, broadcast yesterday, was later posted on the website. In it, Lynch appears more optimistic when asked about the return of the show, stating: “I haven’t returned yet and we’re still working on the contract, but I love the world of Twin Peaks and I love those characters. And I think it will be very special to go back into that world.”

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Twin Peaks, created by Lynch and Mark Frost, was first broadcast in 1990. Set in a small, mysterious US town, the series was centred around the murder of young girl named Laura Palmer.


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Source: Twin Peaks reboot moving forward despite David Lynch's comments
BY JAMES HIBBERD • @JAMESHIBBERD

Showtime’s Twin Peaks is still apparently on track.

Creator David Lynch reportedly made some dire comments about his Twin Peaks reboot’s odds of happening at a panel in Australia for his new art exhibit last weekend. The writer-director reportedly said Showtime’s resurrection of his classic ABC series was “still up in the air” and “there are complications” and that he doesn’t know if the revival is still on.

That was certainly news to Showtime, which has already received all of Lynch’s scripts, greenlit Twin Peaks as a limited series and signed Kyle MacLachlan to reprise his starring role as Agent Cooper. “Nothing is going on that’s any more than any preproduction process with David Lynch,” a source said close to the show said. “Everything is moving forward and everybody is crazy thrilled and excited.”

Still, Lynch’s participation is still considered pretty crucial. Lynch is signed to direct all nine episodes and it’s hard to imagine Twin Peaks returning without his blessing. We reached out to Lynch’s representative for more clarity, but the rep had nothing to say about the director’s comments. Perhaps Lynch simply hadn’t had his morning coffee yet?


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BBC Radio 4 to air 'Twin Peaks' documentary featuring Richard Ayoade, Rob da Bank
Documentary will premiere on Monday, April 6 at 4pm

BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast a documentary on David Lynch's Twin Peaks next month (April).

The documentary will be presented by writer and Film 2015 pundit Danny Leigh and feature contributions from Rob da Bank, who will discuss the influence of the show's soundtrack, crime writer Denise Mina and Andy Burns, author of the Twins Peak book Wrapped In Plastic.

Actor-director Richard Ayoade, whose own work has been inspired by Twin Peaks, will also contribute. The documentary is set to air on Monday, April 6 at 4pm. In the meantime, watch a trailer below.

Last October (2014) US cable network Showtime announced that it was bringing back Twin Peaks for a nine-episode run in 2016. David Lynch is set to direct from scripts he has co-written with his Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost.

The project appeared to be running smoothly in January, when Kyle MacLachlan confirmed his return as Agent Dale Cooper. However, speaking at the opening of his 'Between Two Worlds' art exhibition in Brisbane, Australia earlier this month (March), Lynch cast doubts on the planned revival by telling fans: "I'm not sure at this point if it's happening." Lynch added that the revival has been hit by "complications", reportedly owing to difficult contract negotiations. Alongside MacLachlan, the cast of the original Twin Peaks series included Michael Ontkean, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sheryl Lee, Mädchen Amick and Sherilyn Fenn. David Duchovny, who appeared as Agent Denise Bryson in three episodes, has recently said he is keen to return.


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That damn pu**y!
 

The 'Twin Peaks' Cast Made A Video Asking David Lynch To Come Back


It's like a girl without a secret, pies without cherries, or a sheriff station without donuts. At least that's what the original "Twin Peaks" cast thinks now that Lynch has left the upcoming reboot. On Tuesday, the 25th anniversary of the "Twin Peaks" premiere on April 8, 1990, the cast compiled videos saying what the show would be like without the co-creator as a part of their #SaveTwinPeaks campaign. The video includes Sherilyn Fenn, Dana Ashbrook, Sheryl Lee, James Marshall and Peggy Lipton, among others.

The filmmaker announced his departure from Showtime's reboot on Sunday night, tweeting, "I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done." Lynch tweeted that he called the cast over the weekend to tell them he was leaving the project. Showtime responded to Lynch's tweets saying the network still hopes to bring Lynch back on board.

Previous to his announced departure, Lynch had alluded to negotiation problems with Showtime, saying that the reboot was "still up in the air." Kyle MacLachlan was the only "Twin Peaks" actor officially confirmed to return to the new series, although Ashbrook and Lee previously revealed Lynch called them to reprise their roles. Showtime announced last October that nine new episodes of "Twin Peaks" would air in 2016 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the series two-season run.



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Laura Dern and Naomi Watts Open Up About David Lynch, And Tease Twin Peaks

David Lynch loves women. They are at the center of nearly all his films—from Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive—and his groundbreaking TV series, Twin Peaks, which premiered in 1990 and is set to return on Showtime on May 21, with 18 new episodes, all directed by Lynch.
“Who killed Laura Palmer?” provided the motivating plotline for Twin Peaks, but the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the beautiful high school student really served as an entrée into a dark and fascinating Lynchian reality. The world according to David Lynch is vaguely retro (his women often dress like 1950s starlets); consistently eerie (there is strangeness lurking around every corner); and oddly wholesome (coffee and pie are always present). He is the master of the juxtaposition of the creepy and the sweet, the sexual and the chaste. And at the heart of this tense, intriguing friction, you will always find Lynch’s women.
Interestingly, the director doesn’t seem to believe in auditions. Instead of hearing an actress read a part, he will simply review photographs of her and then decide whether or not he wants to meet her for a chat. “David will look at three or four, or maybe five, different pictures and say, ‘Okay, I’ll see those girls,’ ” recalled Naomi Watts, who was cast by Lynch for his 2001 neo-noir mystery, Mulholland Drive—the film that made her a star. “If you’re the third person on the list and he’s had a great meeting, he doesn’t meet girl number four or five. So my getting the part felt like fate.”

It’s often only after he casts an actress that he allows her to see the script. Sometimes, he merely describes the character she’ll be playing. “You usually have to read the script in the office,” said Laura Dern, who, having starred in four Lynch projects, including Wild at Heart (1990) and Inland Empire (2006), seems to have achieved muse status. “I’m always excited and surprised by what he asks me to play. Even in the beginning, I signed on because of David. He inspires that trust.”
Lynch’s heroines tend to have distinct, dual personalities (twin peaks, if you will): They are possessed of a prim, decorous side and an extreme sexuality that often attracts bizarre male suitors. “The sex in his films is emotional,” Watts said. “It is not gratuitous. You feel that he is getting at something primal.”
While directing the more intense scenes, Lynch can be uncommonly present. “Wild at Heart was such an intimate movie that he was usually sitting on the bed while we were doing our love scenes,” Dern recalled. “We would get the giggles, and he’d pinch our feet to get us to stop laughing. He was always right there. As we were rolling, he would be able to somehow whisper in my ear, and then go back and hide.”
Like a doting parent, Lynch gives his actresses nicknames: Watts is Buttercup; Patricia Arquette, who starred in Lost Highway (1997), is Solid Gold; and Dern has been Tidbit since she was 16, when Lynch cast her in Blue Velvet. Actresses Hailey Gates (who hosts the Viceland TV series States of Undress) and Chrysta Bell (who is also a musician) are both in the reboot of Twin Peaks, and have yet to be rechristened. Their roles—just like the show itself—remain shrouded in secrecy.
“I can’t tell you much,” Dern said. “But I can tell you that Naomi and I went to his house for coffee and he told us he was cooking something up.”
There is no question, however, that the new Twin Peaks will retain the surreal, dreamlike quality that made the original so addictive—something the artist Alex Prager tapped into in creating her homage to Lynch and his incredible coterie of women.



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I was never really interested in Twin Peaks when it came out when I was a kid. Fairly recently though I watched Mulholland Drive and, man, it totally blew my head. In fact, it might just be one of the most intriguing films I've ever seen. I've been meaning to watch Inland Empire and Blue Velvet for a while now. I guess I'll also have to watch the new Twin Peaks series too.

I loved it since the first episode when I discovered it during high school, the second series had lost a bit of its shine but the end left me wondering for years.
When I discovered two years ago that finally an epilogue series was in the making I got all hyped up, only to be let down by the various delays and petty problems. I had forgotten about this until recently I looked it up again and I've discovered that actually at long last the beginning of the elusive third season is not far off!
I guess I have to postpone my re-watch of Poirot to refresh my memory about the first two series.

Mulholland Drive is easily his best work.

Twin Peaks was an excellent show, but a mere footnote to the towering TV achievement of Peyton Place.

Although the cast is obviously mostly excellent and any returning players are welcome, I think it reveals Lynch's worst traits that he has (apparently) REFUSED to hire Lara Flynn Boyle as payback for her not returning for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. This, in spite of her pleas. She was central to the success of the show (the great montage of grieving that opens the series--and especially her role in it--is the series high-point). Boyle was a daring artist--as proven by Twin Peaks and the MAGNIFICENT films Equinox and Afterglow. She was also cursed with a particular kind of youthful beauty and has disfigured herself trying to maintain that beauty through really unfortunate plastic surgery. If Lynch weren't so spiteful, he might have provided the opportunity to redeem her ravaged humanity in Twin Peaks Season 3.