‘Twin Peaks’ reboot on Showtime gets premiere date

While there was clearly a lot of excitement for the Twin Peaks panel at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press today, it was with the understanding that nearly no information would actually be revealed at it.

Showtime also confirmed that a total of 18 one-hour episodes would air. Well then, you’ll be stoked to hear that, immediately following the premiere, Showtime will make episodes 3 and 4 available via their digital platform.

Showtime president David Nevins, who made the announcement, said that he and Showtime programming president Gary Levine have already seen the entire series, and gave it a seal of approval. He hasn’t read it, but only because that’s Frost’s history of working on Twin Peaks; Lynch has presumably written his own in his head. They join original cast members including Kyle MacLachlan, James Marshall, Sherilyn Fenn and Sheryl Lee.

On whether he’s aware of the hype around Twin Peaks: “I’m too in the middle and I don’t go out much”. The revival series was also described as Lynch’s “unadulterated vision” and Lynch was free-and-clear of your standard network notes. But really, it’s actually happening again, and now we finally know when. “David Lynch is one of the great film masters of my lifetime”.

Are you looking forward to the return of Twin Peaks? But today at their TCA session, Showtime shared the first crumbs of information we’ve had about Twin Peaks in a good long while, including an exact release date and episode count. “Very much important for this”.

The show is made by United States channel Showtime. “What killed Twin Peaks originally – ‘Who killed Laura Palmer?’ was a question that we did not really ever want to answer”.

Lynch, who answered few questions point blank, said he had his hands full with Twin Peaks, and has no plans for any other projects.

Does he see the series as a long film?

The series, which Nevins says is created to be a closed-ended, one-time event, premieres with a two-hour opener, at 9 p.m.