It’s official, The Comeback is making a comeback. Again!
Friends star Lisa Kudrow‘s ahead-of-its-time sitcom premiered in 2005, satirising the then-new genre of reality TV and celebrity culture.
It was cancelled after its initial season, but received a second run in 2014 before being cancelled again.
Now, it has been announced that a third season will begin production this summer, and will air on HBO next year.
An announcement video sees Kudrow in character as washed-up sitcom actor Valerie Cherish trying to record a confessional. Similarly to the classic and much-memed ‘Well, I got it’ moment from season one, Valerie’s low-key delivery leaves a lot to be desired.
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She gets increasingly frustrated as her producer Jane asks her for more takes, and eventually walks off. But Jane is used to it, and knows Valerie will be back soon enough.
Kudrow and creator Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City/And Just Like That…) said in a joint statement: “Valerie Cherish has found her way back to the current television landscape. Neither of us are surprised she did.”
“No matter what the industry throws at her, Valerie Cherish is a survivor,” added HBO and Max vice president of comedy programming Amy Gravitt. “On the 20th anniversary of her debut, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow have brilliantly scripted her return to HBO and we can’t wait to see that.”
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And fans can’t wait either, as there are plenty of reviews from across the years on IMDb calling for a season three.
“Shame on HBO for giving up on this series so soon,” said one review, while another called it a “novel and hilarious series that ended too soon”.
“It’s a shame that the series has been canceled because it was one of the most intelligent and different things that happened in years on television,” wrote a third fan, while a fourth dubbed it the “best kept secret on TV”, and others have compared it to I’m Alan Partridge, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The Comeback can be streamed on NOW in the UK, and Max and Hulu in the US.
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