I loved Dana Ashbrook's performance and I hope he appears, but to me Bobby was a supporting player you don't have to have. I loved Shelly, Norma and Ed, Andy and Lucy, Catherine, etc. but I also don't think any of them are absolutely necessary. I think the people who are absolutely necessary are Cooper, Laura, maybe Harry, the Palmers, possibly Audrey and a few others. After 25 years, to me almost everyone else is negotiable. But I really doubt they won't deal with Bobby in some fashion if they're going after so many of these others. Plus, we really have no idea whether or not he's in - Ashbrook just doesn't have a social media presence to tell us.

Technically, they don't have to have anyone but Dale, the Log Lady, and the Palmers. It's just that when we learned more people were being asked back, that's when I started thinking, "Is Bobby going to be there?" If James or Michael Horse or Norma and Ed are going to be there, then yes, it will bother me if Bobby isn't there, mostly because I just don't think you can understand Laura half as well without Bobby, and also because he was an awesome character.

Edited October 22, 201411 yr by DRW50

From a NYT article on the Angel Ball:

Kyle MacLachlan wasn’t confident that he would make it the whole night. “If you see someone slumped over drooling on the table, that would be me,” he said.

Mr. MacLachlan’s old TV show, “Twin Peaks,” is making a return after a 25-year absence. Would his character, Dale Cooper, come back on the Showtime reboot?

“According to what I’ve been hearing, next year we’ll start filming at some point,” he said. Well, he’s thinks he’ll be filming it. “I’m hopeful I’ll be involved. It’s not definite, definite, definite yet.”

Officially, he is in negotiations.

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by Vee

Vulture's promised piece about TP alumni and their status today is up.

“The phone rang, and it was David [Lynch], and he was calling from Paris on Skype,” [Catherine] Coulson says about learning the show was returning. “He said, ‘We wanna be working together with you, and we’re gonna do Twin Peaks.’ We chatted for a while about the Log Lady, how she had matured a little bit. Then I said, ‘What can I tell people?’ He said, ‘Tell them it’s too early to talk about in detail, and don’t play in the street.’” As for Lanterman’s namesake hunk of wood, Coulson says, “I have kept the log in a secure, undisclosed location. In case it was called upon to come back, I’ve been very carefully protecting it.”

“I texted [Peaks production coordinator] Sabrina [s. Sutherland] and said, ‘A little birdie told me something that I think I’m supposed to be excited about,” remembers [Kimmy] Robertson about when the news broke on October 6. “And she said, ‘Oh, I couldn’t tell you. I’ve known for some time, and I felt so bad I couldn’t tell you.’ And she said David Skyped her, and said, ‘Tell her I can’t call her now, but I want to see her in November and explain it all to her, but tell Kimmy’ … Oh, I shouldn’t be telling you this. Never mind. He said something. David said something.”

More at the link.

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by Vee

Thanks. There were so many things I didn't know (I didn't know Eric de Rae was Aldo Ray's son, or that James Spader was the first choice for Denise Bryson). I'm glad I got to read that.

Are you ready for more ancient TP minutiae from the depths of the Internet at 5 AM on a Saturday? I thought you might be.

So one of the few licensed tie-ins I never got a look at as a kid was Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town, published in 1991. It has long been rumored that this mock guidebook, apparently written in-universe by some of the show staff (possibly with contributions from Lynch and Frost), may have had hints to future storylines. One such rumor was about the annual Twin Peaks Passion Play and a crucial local football game, as detailed in an old fan essay:

Access Guide to the Town offers clues as to what would have happened in the next season of the series, had it not been canceled. Take the story of the football game. "Mystery play saves Peaks season."

While this comment appears as part of a football game headline in the book, it is tantalizing, given the book's earlier reference to a Twin Peaks "Passion Play," taking place at Glastonberry Grove (in the book, a circle of twelve douglas firs; in the series, sycamore trees). The historical passion plays were forms of what were called mystery plays, because they dealt with the true nature of the universe, the greatest mystery of all (in their case, Christian beliefs). According to the book, this Passion Play, when it is held, occurs in the month of April. Given that each episode of the series covers the events of a single day (except for a couple exceptions), we can extrapolate that the end of the non-existent third season would have brought the storyline into the month of April, 1989. The book says that the Passion Play is meant to illustrate the victory of good over evil.

The implication of all this is that the main thrust of the series' plotlines (BOB, the Lodge, etc.) would have been resolved at the end of the third season. The reference to the mystery play saving the season appears in large and bold print in the book, as do two other important statements. "He began to run the wrong way." This may be a reference to the BOB-possessed Cooper. "The best thing in our lives and we did it together." The town would have to stand united in action (unlike the blind eye they turned to Laura) in order to win.

In addition, there is a marginalia which gives the comment of a coach: "The goal post is in the shape of an H and that means Hell and that's what you have to go through to get some points." Not just a reference to Cooper's coming experience dealing with BOB and the Lodge, but to what nearly all heroes in mythologies the world over must do at some point: Descend into the underworld. Not incidentally, Gilgamesh's descent into the underworld was through a mountain with twin peaks.

Probably nothing, but an interesting little thought. It would be just like TP to have the fate of Cooper's soul hanging in the balance juxtaposed against a school football game.

My beloved Peggy Lipton makes it pretty much official on Twitter:

#Twin Peaks Dugpa In 2015 Norma will serve an even tastier cherry pie!!

That's great to hear it confirmed. A part of me is surprised they're letting the cast talk about it this way on social media, but I guess it's a good way to keep buzz going.

This is still so strange to read that it's happening. Carl, I echo your sentiments about Bobby. He was my favourite character next to Audrey and I loved it when they were put into each others orbits in season two. I guess I'm in the minority, but I remember finding the Norma amnesia story to be entertaining and I literally must be the only person that had no problem with the James story with whatshername. Unfortunately, I watched the show in 2008 so my memory is pretty fuzzy on a lot of the story. A re-watch will be mandatory when the return date draws near. You guys remembering all these intricacies is blowing my mind.

Edited October 29, 201411 yr by Bright Eyes

My beloved Peggy Lipton makes it pretty much official on Twitter:

Fantastic! I think it's fair to assume Everett McGill is in too.

So far, we've got Cooper, Truman, Hawk, The Log Lady, Leland, Ben, Ed & Norma, Shelly, Lucy (and maybe Andy) and likely James.

Interesting grouping so far!

Edited October 29, 201411 yr by alexisfan07

I take Laura and Sarah as givens in some way, shape or form. But sooner or later they're going to have to start dealing with the new generation of kids. It's been 25 years and it is a part of life.

I am slammed with work deadlines this Halloween, but I have taken time out to bring you this, another inscrutable interview about TP with Catherine E. Coulson.

While Coulson has theater work coming up, she has agreed to return to Twin Peaks for its 2016 revival on Showtime, but Coulson claims that David Lynch did not give many details on the show’s comeback when he contacted her, “When I talked to David, he said, ‘It’s too early for details.’ Then I said, ‘What do I tell people?’ He said, ‘Details to follow, and don’t play in the street.’ Those were the two things. Then I wrote him and said, ‘Listen, I’m doing a lot of interviews, is there anything else I can talk about?’ He said I could talk about how important wood is to the Log Lady, and that we should work very hard to protect our wood, and our natural resources. So I’ve been doing a lot of reading about trees, and ancient forests, and so forth, but I don’t know anything about the new series. I don’t know where it’s going to be shot, I don’t know when, I don’t know anything, other than that they asked me to do it, and I said yes. But really, that’s all I know, I’m not being coy, I really don’t know.”

Coulson also discussed how the show will be returning to a new world when it comes to advancements in technology, and cell phones, which didn’t exist when Twin Peaks originally aired in 1990-1991, “It is going to be a different world, there weren’t even cell phones when we did Twin Peaks. Agent Cooper had a giant walkie talkie. I think it’s going to be a different world, but everybody’s going to adjust to it. We’re going to have to.”

There's also some nice discussion of her past with Lynch, her life with Jack Nance, etc.

Edited October 31, 201411 yr by Vee

I am home from my revels, so here are more ancient TP promos. I think these are the ones I recall from when I was a kid, with Lucy rambling on. Don't go out chopping!

Those were so much fun and so creative. I sometimes wonder why Kimmy Robertson didn't get bigger roles.

It's a hoot to see that crazy dancing scene again with Catherine and Leland. It's insane and depressing and hilarious - Twin Peaks at its core.

I remember her popping up in a fair amount of stuff back then. She was hot for a few minutes on TV, at least. And of course she has never lacked for voice work, so it seems.

Didn't she do one of those James Dobson radio shows?

At least she doesn't seem to be in the Victoria Jackson crazy path. I still can't stomach anything with her now, sadly.