Twin Peaks fans have had to cultivate more patience than most: following its two cult seasons in the early 90s, the show was off the air for 25 years before a revival was recently announced by US network Showtime. But now fans will have to wait a little longer, as its return has been pushed back to 2017 from its earlier date of 2016.
Mark Frost, co-creator of the show with David Lynch, has given an interview with the Baseball Hall of Fame in which he said: “We’ve finished the scripts, we start production in September, and that will be coming out on Showtime sometime in 2017... The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time.”
The new season of Twin Peaks has already had one major hiccup, with Lynch signing on to do the show, then leaving it over a dispute about budgets. He then rejoined the show as director, quoting two of its famous lines by saying: “The rumours are not what they seem... It is happening again.” The show’s cast had made a series of videos appealing for Lynch’s return.
Showtime has promised “long-awaited answers for the series’ passionate fan base”. The show earned those fans through its blend of traditional police procedural and psychosexual mystery, as FBI agent Dale Cooper investigates the death of a teenage girl in a rural town – its first season became a huge ratings success in the US, though its second season failed to keep the momentum going after the killer was revealed. A film exploring the events leading up to the killing, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, was released the following year.
