Twin Peaks Will Return As A Limited Series On Showtime

In an interview with Deadline (which you can read in full) about the show, Frost revealed that it won’t all be based in the town we know and love:

“It’s safe to say that things will happen in Twin Peaks that you’ll see,” he said. “Not necessarily all will be there but yeah, we are going to call it Twin Peaks, so I think that speaks for itself.”

It’s also been speculated that Kyle MacLachlan will reprise his role as Agent Dale Cooper, to which Frost added, “I think you’ll have the answer to that sooner rather than later.” With regards to the remainder of the cast, he explained, “I think the fans would like to see and we would like to see as many of the old familiar faces as possible and a lot of new faces as well. We are going to keep that in mind as we start to work and hopefully everybody’s story will get some attention.”

When pushed to reveal anything of the “very strong” storyline, he replied:

“I think you can safely say that the mystery in Twin Peaks as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery. And that will include all the storylines we’ve dealt with up until now.”

While there’s nothing confirmed, you can pretty much bet on this being a unique piece of television. Lynch and Frost could not have conjured a more perplexing method for telling the original story of Laura Palmer’s murder. Twists and turns were executed in a hallucinatory way, leading audiences down the garden path and into a dream-like realm of infinite possibility. I’m absolutely overjoyed that this is happening again, and with Lynch and Frost in full command of the show, it should definitely be a treat.

The co-creators first teased the news on Friday morning via their Twitter accounts, at precisely 11:30am – the same time Agent Dale Cooper first ventured into the mysterious town. Their enigmatic hints stoked a lot of curiosity as to the future of Twin Peaks, but really, if we listened closely to Laura Palmer’s announcement in the final episode – “I’ll see you again in 25 years” – we’d have known this was coming all along.

Twin Peaks is set to air on Showtime in 2016.