It looks as if we won’t be breaking for damn fine coffee for a couple of years yet, with the confirmation from Mark Frost that the Showtime series won’t hit the airwaves until 2017.

Speaking about his work on the show during a recent family trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, Frost explained that “We had 32 hours back in 1991-92, and with my partner David Lynch we kind of blew open that genre of the nighttime soap and took it in a whole other direction. A lot of people always look back at Twin Peaks and say that was the start of this explosion we’ve had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.

“The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We’re coming back with season three of Twin Peaks after a 25-year absence. We’ve finished the scripts, we start production in September, and that will be coming out on Showtime sometime in 2017.”

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