David Lynch took to Twitter on Saturday morning to announce he will direct a revival of Twin Peaks despite leaving the project in April over a funding dispute with US network Showtime. “The rumours are not what they seem … It is !!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on @SHO_Network,” he said. Showtime president, David Nevins, confirmed the news in a statement a few minutes later, adding that the show would be even longer than the originally announced nine episodes. Showtime announced it would revive Twin Peaks in October and scheduled to air the programme in 2016, with Lynch and Frost sharing the roles of writer and director. But in April, Lynch announced he was leaving the project after 16 months of negotiations because Showtime had not offered enough money to film the script the way he “felt it needed to be done”.
