World of Blue - Archived Forum 2007-2022

N. Needleman wrote:Naomi and David texting.

Jonah wrote:Are Showtime showing any previews for upcoming episodes at all?

I understand they can't show footage of upcoming episodes, but wouldn't it be easy to use footage from earlier episodes or even graphics along with the taglines to get people hyped up?

I haven't seen any footage online, only the little clips they upload on Youtube after each episode, so just wondering - and asking especially those in the US - are Showtime showing any footage for upcoming episodes over there?

I think the ratings would be higher if they did.

I loved the old "Next On" from the original series - they'd give you just a glimpse of a still image or two and a little audio. Something like that would have been nice this time around and would have kept the mystery alive, but even a graphic or two just to get people hyped up would be great.

mtwentz wrote:Anybody know how The Return is doing in Japan?

mtwentz wrote:Anybody know how The Return is doing in Japan?

David and Mark obviously co-wrote the series... to a point. Around the time they handed things over to Showtime, things changed a bit. Mark went off to write The Secret History of Twin Peaks and David directed the whole thing, but the interesting thing to note here is that, as you all may recall, the series Showtime announced was going to be 8 or 9 episodes. There was that whole drama where David announced he quit, Showtime caved, and now we have 18 episodes. This was NOT a case of the existing material simply being stretched out. According to Sabrina, David actually continued to write. So this seems to have shifted the level of writing involvement more heavily to Lynch than Frost. EDIT: For clarity, it's not that David wrote nine more episodes. It's more like he wrote more scenes interspersed throughout the existing material.