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It was earlier this year when we’d reported on Lionsgate’s having secured the film, television, stage, and video game rights to the award-winning fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle, by Patrick Rothfuss. Added to that the excitement that the executive producer will be none other than Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, we’ve been anxiously awaiting any new […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Showtime’s new series, I’m Dying Up Here kicked off to little fanfare on Saturday with the release of it’s premiere episode. To be honest I’d forgotten that Ace Venture Pet Detective star Jim Carry was executive producing a series about the early 70’s rise of the modern stand-up comedy era until I saw it […]

Director David Lynch’s strange and wonderful Twin Peaks series returned to television last week after an absence of 25 years. The core cast also came back for Showtime’s “The Return”, garnering pretty good critical praise from fans of the old series, and a metric crapton of head scratching from viewers who had no idea what the hell was […]

Director David Lynch’s strange and wonderful Twin Peaks series returned to television last week after an absence of 25 years. The core cast also came back for Showtime’s “The Return”, garnering pretty good critical praise from fans of the old series, and a metric crapton of head scratching from viewers who had no idea what the hell was […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Note, this series comes along with a strong caveat: If you haven’t seen the series before, stop now. Go back and watch seasons one and two, then come back up to date. This isn’t like an episode of CSI or Law and Order where you can rather pick up any given episode and […]

It’s been 26 years since Mark Frost and David Lynch’s surreal serial drama Twin Peaks last had a new episode on television. That’s so long ago that MTV was still playing music videos from time to time. We’d only had one President Bush, and anything you wanted to know about a TV series you’d have […]

New “Twin Peaks” Trailer Shows Big Ed Hurley, Deputy Andy, And Agent Dale Cooper

Showtime’s Upcoming New “Twin Peaks” Series Releases New Videos

It’s been 26 years since Twin Peaks first appeared to mess with our minds in a cultural touchstone series that arguably really wouldn’t have anything quite like it until Lost. Now we seem to be six months or less away from the new volume’s premiere on Showtime (the original series was on ABC). David Lynch and Mark Frost have both returned to write the new nine-volume season.

A ‘penny dreadful’ is a type of 19th-century cheap British fiction publication not unlike a serial magazine story with lurid and sensational subject matter, often times being dark and devilish. Showtime’s Penny Dreadful draws upon many public domain characters of the time, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Mina Harker and […]