{"id":19680,"date":"2025-06-27T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19680\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:00:08","slug":"the-comeback-revived-by-hbo-for-third-final-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19680\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Comeback’ Revived By HBO For Third & Final Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tValerie Cherish will be given another take as HBO<\/a> is bringing back The Comeback<\/a> for a third and final season. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe pickup comes on the heels of the cult comedy created by Michael Patrick King<\/a> and Lisa Kudrow<\/a>, marking the 20-year anniversary of its launch earlier this month and more than a decade after the show\u2019s Season 2 revival. The official green light follows weeks of speculation about a potential return of The Comeback, including chatter about a mini-room for the project this spring.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe third and final season will begin production this summer and is expected to debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2026. Kudrow will reprise her role as Valerie Cherish, a one-time sitcom star who chronicles her return to show business on a companion reality TV series called The Comeback.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cValerie Cherish has found her way back to the current television landscape. Neither of us are surprised she did,\u201d King and Kudrow said.<\/p>\n

\n\tDan Bucatinsky (Valerie\u2019s publicist, Billy Stanton), Laura Silverman (reality TV show producer, Jane Benson), and Damian Young (Valerie\u2019s husband Mark Berman) will also reprise their roles in the new season, which is executive produced by King, Kudrow, John Melfi and Bucatinsky.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo matter what the industry throws at her, Valerie Cherish is a survivor. On the 20th Anniversary of her debut, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow have brilliantly scripted her return to HBO, and we can\u2019t wait to see that,\u201d said Amy Gravitt, EVP, HBO & Max Comedy Programming.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Comeback originally premiered in 2005 on HBO, marking Kudrow\u2019s first starring television role following the 10-season run of Friends. Despite the mockumentary being a critical darling, the premium cable network axed the comedy series after one season.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the years following its initial cancellation, the series gained a cult following, and HBO picked it up for a second season, which premiered in 2014. By the time the second season aired, The Real Housewives and lifestyle reality TV had become much more prevalent, setting the stage for Valerie Cherish to stage another comeback.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe second season saw Valerie attempt to produce a pilot for Andy Cohen. Valerie is also cast in an HBO series called \u201cSeeing Red,\u201d playing a fictionalized version of herself in a show about the life of Paulie G., the sitcom writer who tormented her.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than 20 years since The Comeback originally premiered, people have continued to ask Kudrow about a third season. Last year, Kudrow told Newsweek<\/a> she and King were \u201calways talking about what would happen next\u201d with Valerie Cherish and were \u201cthrilled\u201d fans continued to recognize the show after so many years.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valerie Cherish will be given another take as HBO is bringing back The Comeback for a third and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,5560,18455,1097,18456,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-19680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-lisa-kudrow","11":"tag-michael-patrick-king","12":"tag-the-comeback","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114756637607366701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}