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Walter Olkewicz, a versatile character actor with a range from Seinfeld to Twin Peaks and beyond, died Tuesday in Reseda, CA after a long battle with infections. He was 72 and his death was confirmed by his son, screenwriter Zak Olkewicz. Olkewicz’s long career started in the 1970s and ran through 2017, when ill…

Actor, writer, producer and director Clark Middleton has died. Middleton, known for various roles in Twin Peaks, Law & Order, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 and The Blacklist, was 63. Middleton’s agent Steve Stone confirmed that the actor died of West Nile Virus on Sunday in his Los Angeles home. The virus can be found in…

In television, the TV series role Robert Forster is probably best known for is in starring turn in David Lynch’s 2017 Twin Peaks revival. It was 25 years in the making. Oscar-nominated Forster, who died Friday at age 78, revealed in 2016 that Lynch had approached him to co-star in the original 1990 Twin Peaks series…

Peggy Lipton, who died yesterday at age 72, was an icon for a generation of women at a critical time in civil rights history. Her friends and those affected by her performances and symbolism remembered her today with an online outpouring. We will update as more come in. <a…

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on June 13 as Emmy nomination-round voting began. After David Lynch’s Twin Peaks bowed on ABC in April 1990, it became a cultural phenomenon, producing two Emmys and 18 nominations. All these years later, Lynch is back in the running with three nominations for Showtime’s…

Director of photography Peter Deming, who shot the entire 18-episode series of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return, has been working with the Los Angeles-based auteur since his ABC summer comedy series On the Air. In addition, Deming has worked on Lynch’s HBO series Hotel Room and the movies Lost Highway, Inland Empir…

After a 26 year wait in between seasons, a Cannes Film Festival premiere and a marquee cast that included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ashley Judd, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, David Koechner, and of course Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, Showtime’s third season of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return was passed up by Emmy voters…

Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch says President Donald Trump “could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much.” Speaking to The Guardian media outlet in the UK, Lynch said he was a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016, then switched to Libertarian candidate Gary…

David Lynch discovered Kyle MacLachlan when the actor was in his early twenties, with no TV or movie credits to his name. Lynch took a gamble and cast MacLachlan in his sci-fi flop Dune (1984), taking the actor with him to his next project, the controversial 1987 arthouse smash Blue Velvet. Though MacLachlan went on…

Showtime will air all 18 parts of the Twin Peaks limited series as part of an Emmy For Your Consideration marathon on June 2. The uninterrupted run will begin at 4:35 AM ET/PT and end at 10 PM PT/ET on Showtime 2. The entire series is also available to subscribers on multiple television and streaming providers'…

Premiere episode screenings of FX’s Snowfall and TV Land’s Younger, retro-dives into creepy classics Twin Peaks and The Outer Limits, and in-person conversations with David Costabile of Showtime’s Billions and Jeffrey Wright of HBO’s Westworld are among the highlights announced today for the second annual Split…

The long-awaited new installment of Twin Peaks on Showtime was billed as a limited-run event. But that has not stopped fans from asking about another season. The networks’ CEO David Nevins and president Gary Levine fielded some of these questions during the network’s portion of the winter TCA press tour. Nevins said…