I would highly recommend you do so if you haven't seen it in a long time. There's a lot of smaller players and plot points returning.

 

I have seen the show about 20 times including a recent rewatch not long ago simply because I love it, but I will be rewatching once more, probably when Showtime begins reairing the original series as well (I think they're still planning to do that). Also essential is Fire Walk with Me, which will be relevant to the new series in addition to being pretty great.

A gift from Santa. Thanks, David Lynch et al. #TwinPeaks

A photo posted by Robert Knepper (@robert_knepperofficial) on May 5, 2016 at 9:30am PDT

Ernie Hudson (now playing Lily Tomlin's love interest on Grace and Frankie) has no idea what was going on when he did Twin Peaks.

 

 

Thanks for sharing that.

Prayer circle!

 

5/15/14 Missing Pieces trailer premieres. 5/15/15 Lynch announces he is back on board Peaks. 5/15/16 --- ??? #TwinPeaks2017

— Twin Peaks (@TwinPeaksArchve)

May 9, 2016

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New castmember Owain Rhys-Davies talks about his TP experience. My understanding is that this late notice was not unusual for the show due to its intense secrecy, both in the '90s and over the last nine months:

 

Just like the other 216 people on the humongous cast list, Owain Rhys Davies cannot reveal anything about the new Twin Peaks until it airs early 2017. But in a conversation with the Wales-based BBC Cymru Fyw, the Welsh actor talks about the peculiar process of being cast on the show.

 

Owain met associate producer and casting director Johanna Ray over lunch, where she took a couple of Polaroid pictures of the strawberry blonde actor. After their meeting, he heard nothing for a very long time.

 

"My agent called me while I was driving. I had auditioned 7 months before, so I already assumed I didn’t get the part. I had to pull over and I just screamed. Everyone around me looked at me in shock. It was a memorable day."

 

David Lynch had picked Owain for being “different.” It already happened soon after the audition, but production wanted to keep everything so secret they didn’t mention anything until the week of filming.

 

"I got the call on Monday. I was in for a costume fitting on Wednesday and on the set by Friday."

 

That was the first time the Cardiff-born actor ever met David Lynch, and he was a little nervous when his director came up. “For some reason, when I’m nervous I turn into a stand-up comedian and I tell a lot of jokes.” But David Lynch took his hand and said: “Shall we?” They had a chat about the character and went straight to filming.

 

The plot is so secret that most of the actors did not get to see the script until two days before shooting. They want nothing to get out before the show airs, so people can discover the mystery on their own.

 

"David Lynch has put a lot of time in the script in order to please the fans across the world, and to ensure that everyone is able to get back into the odd and bizarre world he [and Mark Frost] created in the past."

I think WTTP may have scrubbed the discovery, but apparently Rhys-Davies' resume indicates he plays "FBI Agent Tom Wilson".

The notoriously private Harry Goaz (Andy) comes out of hiding to talk about his work on the new show:

 

Dallas actor Harry Goaz has already filmed his scenes for Showtime’s 2017 reboot of Twin Peaks, but he still doesn’t know what the story is.

 

“We only received our lines the morning of shooting,” he says about filming on location in Seattle and Los Angeles. “We didn’t even receive lines for our entire scenes, only our sides.” Once finished, the actor handed off his script to a personal assistant who — accompanied by a witness — fed the pages straight into a shredder.

New Secret History of Twin Peaks swag from a publishing convention:

 

 

Mmmm...tasty! #twinpeaks #thesecrethistoryoftwinpeaks pic.twitter.com/LVMZtMMhQK

— Twin Peaks (@TwinPeaksArchve)

May 13, 2016

Not 100% yet, but it looks like Showtime head David Nevins confirmed that the network will rerun the original series starting next January.

 

If they aired them weekly that would mean waiting til June to air the new series, which I don't think will happen. The speculation I've heard centers around them either running one episode per day to build momentum going into February (and the debut of the new series then), or at least two a week. I suspect the former is more likely.

 

Also, there was a TP 2017 wrap party the other day. I may put up some pix later.

There is a (slim) chance there may be some teaser on Showtime today, as 5/15 was when Lynch announced his return to the show last year and, I believe, when he dropped the trailer for the Missing Pieces in 2014. We'll see.

 

Okay, here's one video from last night, c/o Mädchen Amick:

 

 

 

An undisclosed secret location with a very special group of people... @sylvesteralexis @danaashbrook @krogals @s_bolg #JamesMarshall #SherylLee #GraceZabriskie @littleblackrainclouds @kimmyrobertson #Phillip #BrianPeck

A video posted by Madchen Amick (@madchenamick) on May 15, 2016 at 12:52pm PDT

 

It is surreal to see James, Sheryl and Grace next to each other in a row. 

 

Also, the dream is alive for Carl: Dana Ashbrook is now on Twitter.

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More from Mädchen and the cast at the wrap party. The young man beside her here and in the above video is her son. There's other family and friends as well as several new castmembers, plus the aforementioned Dana Ashbrook, James Marshall, Sheryl Lee, Grace Zabriskie and Kimmy Robertson. (Sherilyn Fenn has indicated she chose not to attend the party, because she was feeling 'raw' and is 'not a party girl.')

 

Lynch and a lot of others were there as well, I may put up more pix later.

 

 

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That's such a sweet photo. Sheryl Lee still looks so ethereally beautiful.

 

Nice to know Dana Ashbrook still knows the Bobby face.

 

At first I thought that was Matt Borleghni beside him.

Nope, just Mädchen's hot son. Her daughter is in the back with him in the thumbs-up group shot.