14 DAY TRIAL // If you were excited about Showtime’s plans for 2016, which also included the “Twin Peaks” revival series, you will have to tone it down because the wait just got longer. Initially scheduled to air on the network “sometime” in 2016, the series has been pushed back to 2017, at a date to be revealed later.
Vulture confirms the news after meeting with series co-creator Mark Frost. The challenge of making the third season of “Twin Peaks” live up to the first two and to the expectations fans have been building these past 2 decades, has made a 2016 air-date impossible.
I imagine the decision to boost the number of episodes from 9 to 18 also contributed to the delay, as also did David Lynch’s decision to exit the project earlier this year, when Showtime refused to give him a bigger budget.
“A lot of people always look back at Twin Peaks and say that was the start of this explosion we’ve had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks. The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time,” Frost says.
As consolation, he offers the fact that, in 2017, when the show returns, 25 years will have passed since Laura Palmer promised FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper “I will see you again in 25 years.” A 2016 air-date would have been, in fact, true to the prophecy.