Twin Peaks is coming back. 
 
 Showtime is reviving the cult favorite from David Lynch and Mark Frost as a nine-episode limited series for a 2016 premiere, the premium network announced Monday. Lynch and Frost will pen all episodes, with Lynch directing. Production is expected to begin in 2015. It is unclear whether any original castmembers would appear. 
 
 "What more can I say — Twin Peaks with David Lynch and Mark Frost on Showtime in 2016!" said David Nevins, president of Showtime Networks. "To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.' " 
 
 Lynch and Frost added in a joint statement: "The mysterious and special world of Twin Peaks is pulling us back. We're very excited. May the forest be with you." 
 
 Lynch and Frost both teased the show's possible return on Twitter, writing the same cryptic message on Friday, prompting speculation that a revival was coming. 
 
 Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style! #damngoodcoffee — David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) October 3, 2014 
 
 Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style. #damngoodcoffee — Mark Frost (@mfrost11) October 3, 2014 
 
 The original Twin Peaks launched on April 8, 1990, on ABC and followed a police investigation of the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer. It was one of the top-rated programs of 1990, earning a renewal before it ended its run on June 10, 1991. 
 
 Even through its short TV run, Twin Peaks has continued to resonate in popular culture. Several castmembers even reunited on USA's Psych during a Twin Peaks-inspired episode in 2010. And in July, the series received an updated series DVD set that included 90 minutes of previously unseen footage. 
 
 Kyle MacLachlan, Madchen Amick, Michael Ontkean, Dana Ashbrook, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Beymer, Warren Frost and Peggy Lipton were among the stars in the original series. 
 
 The news comes as television creatives continue to look to the past in hopes of guaranteeing future success as the trend of reinventing and modernizing popular titles with avid fanbases becomes standard practice. 
 
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 UPDATED: Twin Peaks fans’ quarter-century wait is over. One of the top cult series of all time is coming back with a new limited series on Showtime from its original creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost. The nine-episode series will go into production in 2015 for a premiere in 2016 to mark the 25th anniversary of when the series finished its run on ABC. In a fact that will delight Twin Peaks devotees, Lynch and Frost will write and produce all nine episodes, with Lynch set to direct every episode. 
 
 The new Twin Peaks will be set in the present day, more than two decades after the events in the first two seasons. It will continue the lore and story of the original series, with Lynch and Frost committed to providing long-awaited answers and, hopefully, a satisfying conclusion to the series. It is unclear which actors from the original series will be featured in the followup. I hear that star Kyle MacLachlan will be back, reprising his role as FBI Agent Dale Cooper who was at the center of the show. UPDATE: MacLachlan hinted at his return as Cooper on Twitter later today: “Better fire up that percolator and find my black suit :-) #Twinpeaks.” 
 
 The ABC series also featured some of Lynch’s favorite character actors, and it is likely that at least some of them will return. Leading to the 2016 debut of the Twin Peaks limited series, Showtime will re-air the first two seasons of the series, owned by parent CBS Corp. 
 
 Related: ‘Twin Peaks’ Co-Creator Mark Frost On Showtime Limited Series: How It Happened, Who Will Be Back – Q&A 
 
 “What more can I say – Twin Peaks with David Lynch and Mark Frost on Showtime in 2016!” said Showtime Networks president David Nevins. “To quote Agent Cooper, ‘I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.’” Added Lynch and Frost, “The mysterious and special world of Twin Peaks is pulling us back. We’re very excited. May the forest be with you.” 
 
 Lynch and Frost fueled speculation about a possible Twin Peaks revival with identical cryptic tweets posted at 11:30 AM Friday: “Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style! # damngoodcoffee“. 
 
 “Damn good coffee” was a phrase frequently used by MacLachlan‘s Agent Cooper on the show, expressed typically while eating cherry pie in the town’s cafe. The tweet’s 11:30 AM time stamp matched the time Cooper first entered the town of Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer. Lynch and Frost picked the same 11:30 AM time today to tweet another clue, “Tween Peaks on Showtime.” The two tweeted an announcement video making it official: 
 
 The Twin Peaks limited series comes on the heels of the July Blu-ray release of the entire original series by Showtime sibling CBS Home Entertainment. 
 
 Groundbreaking, genre-bending, stylish, moody and a little weird, Twin Peaks became a phenomenon when it premiered in April 1990, with the two-hour opener drawing mind-boggling 34.6 million viewers. The series followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after Palmer is shockingly murdered. The town’s sheriff welcomed the help of FBI Agent Cooper, who came to town to investigate the case. As Cooper conducted his search for Laura’s killer, the town’s secrets were gradually exposed. Here are the series’ opening credits, set to the haunting theme by Angelo Badalamenti. 
 
 After a very strong first season, viewership for Twin Peaks tapered off in Season 2 when the Laura Palmer murder was resolved midway through the season. Despite the series’ cancellation after 30 episodes, it was never forgotten, with its cult following only growing as years went by. Lynch’s 1992 movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, which he directed from a script he co-wrote with Robert Engels, served as a prequel to the series. It left most questions from the show unanswered, so fans continued to wish for another season. But for Lynch, Twin Peaks seemed a closed chapter. Asked in a 2001 Empire interview whether he would ever go back to the show, he said: “No. Uh-uh. It’s as dead as a doornail.” 
 
 Thankfully for the fans, he changed his mind. 
 
 Later on Monday, Madchen Amick — who played Shelly Johnson on Twin Peaks — tweeted: 

 Published on Oct 6, 2014 
 
 The groundbreaking television phenomenon, Golden Globe® and Peabody Award-winner TWIN PEAKS will return as a new limited series on SHOWTIME. Series creators and executive producers David Lynch and Mark Frost will write and produce all nine episodes of the limited series, and Lynch will direct every episode. Kyle MacLachlan is confirmed to reprise his role as Special Agent Dale Cooper. Set in the present day, TWIN PEAKS will continue the lore of the original series, providing long-awaited answers and a satisfying conclusion for the series’ passionate fan base. 
 
 
 
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 For viewers hoping to reminisce or for those discovering the series for the first time, SHOWTIME will re-air the first two seasons of TWIN PEAKS, in advance of the new episodes which will now air in 2017. 
 
 
 
 Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential broadcast series of all time, TWIN PEAKS followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after their homecoming queen Laura Palmer is shockingly murdered. The town's sheriff welcomed the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who came to town to investigate the case. As Cooper conducted his search for Laura's killer, the town's secrets were gradually exposed. The mystery that ensued set off an eerie chain of events that plunged the inhabitants of Twin Peaks into a darker examination of their very existence. Twenty-five years later, the story continues...
– It is happening again: Twin Peaks is rising from the Washington mist and heading to Showtime for a limited nine-episode run in 2016, according to both the Hollywood Reporter and Deadline. The show's original creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, will reportedly write and produce all nine episodes, with Lynch directing them all, notes Deadline. Kyle MacLachlan, who played the show's oddly endearing Special Agent Dale Cooper, is also rumored to be on board—no word yet on what other original stars might be involved with the project. Lynch and Frost sent out matching tweets on Friday that simply read: "Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style! #damngoodcoffee," with the tweets posted at 11:30am—exactly the time Special Agent Cooper first showed up in the fictional town when the series debuted in 1990, notes Deadline. (MacLachlan just tweeted about golf this weekend, so no help from him.) Deadline adds that the show is said to take place in the present day and will try to wrap up some of the series' unanswered questions. Showtime posted a "special TWIN PEAKS announcement" video today. "The mysterious and special world of Twin Peaks is pulling us back," Lynch and Frost said in a statement. "We’re very excited. May the forest be with you."