A finger flicking, and for series fans is a dream come true: By YouTube Video David Lynch and Mark Frost have announced that their cult series “Twin Peaks” is revived. The third season will 2016 be on TV.

The dimple in his chin, the challenging look, the blonde bangs: Even 24 years after the launch of “Twin Peaks” is unmistakable Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer protagonist. In a YouTube clip, which was uploaded on Monday, they can be seen in front of a red curtain. She looks directly into the camera, and when she is aware of the attention of the viewers sure she flicks with your finger. The image is black, then announced, what hardly dared to hope for many fans of the series: Beginning in 2016, there will be a third season of “Twin Peaks”.

As the station confirmed Showtime together with the series creators Mark Frost and David Lynch, the two are working on a sequel to the cult series that ran from 1990 to 1991 and 1992 with the movie “Fire Walk With Me” had already gotten a kind of prequel.

As Frost told the industry publication “Variety”, the new episodes in the presence should be located and continue storylines from the second season. The running time should be nine hours, with all consequences to David Lynch to direct. Which figures and actors from previous seasons in the sequel are, but not betrayed Frost.

“Twin Peaks” is considered a forerunner of the new serial storytelling, and in 1991 won a Golden Globe for Best Series. Many of the then-unknown actors were the series with stars, including Sheryl Lee, Lara Flynn Boyle and Mädchen Amick, but later could not build on the initial success of “Twin Peaks”. During the first season captivated even millions of fans of the series about the murder of the popular student Laura Palmer, was the second season as an increasingly spun and inaccessible, so the radiating ABC series finally settled.

“The fans who feel bereaved when the series ended at that time”, so like, “are frost to” Variety “, which direction we take. This series is effectively a thank you to all the incredibly passionate fans, we over the years have had that kept the series alive and they have passed on to the next generation. We had to be able to inspire great good fortune, one of the coolest, smartest and most select group of people for our series. ”

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