Twin Peaks Season 3: New Episodes To Air On Showtime in 2016, Twenty-Five Years After Its Second Season Aired!

Twin Peaks is a TV serial drama created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. The pilot episode of the series was first broadcast on April 8, 1990 on ABC. The show revolves around an investigation led by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in to the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). Though the show ran only two seasons, it strikes a perfect blend of strange mix of murder mystery tropes, soap opera storytelling, quirky humor and nightmarish fantasy elements. The show has become a cult hit and has continued to attract strong attention of new viewers. Plus, it also brought about a somewhat divisive movie titled Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me in 1992. The film was directed by Lynch and has a cult following of its own.

The series has been confirmed to return in 2016, 25 years after its second season aired. Frost and Lynch have teased a Twin Peaks revival on and off in the past years, however, they have dropped heavier hints pointing something actually might be happening in that field. Today's news has confirmed that the duo wasn't just messing with the hearts of the numerous Twin Peaks fans.

Variety reported that Lynch and Frost who have kept possession of Twin Peaks property for years and are taking the TV series to Showtime with at least nine new episodes to be produced for release in 2016, Lynch plans to direct all of the nine episodes. Lynch has conveyed his point of view that TV nowadays is a better fit for his art-house sensibilities than movie (particularly cable TV), so it's obvious that he would take the show to a network like Showtime which allows the show a lot more play room as compared to what it had on ABC in the 1990s.

Variety sources reports have confirmed that the show will "reflect the passage of time" since the second season of the show aired twenty-five years back and will bring fans most recent information on life with important characters from the series' initial run. Seemingly, that will comprise of Kyle MacLachlan, who's currently playing Skye's father on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as federal agent Dale Cooper. Twin Peaks fans would remember he was in a bad place when we saw him the last time.

Though we can expect more details to arrive in the near future, but at the moment, news of more Twin Peaks is enough to generate buzz and excitement on its own.