Kyle MacLachlan is expected to return to his role of FBI agent Dale Cooper, though there are no formal cast announcements as of yet.
Lynch previously teased the possibility of new Twin Peaks on Twitter earlier in the week, writing: "Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style! #damngoodcoffee".
The hashtag referenced the phrase Cooper would often use while eating cherry pie, with the tweet itself being posted at 11:30am, the time the agent first entered the town of Twin Peaks.
The show's two-hour opening episode drew 34 million viewers in April 1990 (the good old days when people still watched TV together), though this tapered off somewhat after the murder of Laura Palmer was solved halfway through season 2.
Lynch's return to the show comes in spite of him saying of it during a 2001 Empire interview: "No. Uh-uh. It's as dead as a doornail."
But it seems the rise of television as an artistic medium in recent years has persuaded him otherwise.
"I like the idea of a continuing story," he told The Independent last year. "And television is way more interesting than cinema now. It seems like the art-house has gone to cable."
The teaser trailer gives little away, so, to paraphrase Dale Cooper, I have no idea where this season will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.
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- Independent
