Long before Twin Peaks: The Return aired in 2017, Showtime marked the premiere of David Lynch’s masterpiece, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with a unique promotion. Nearly a year after it’s debut in North American movie theatres, the film debuted on . For it’s arrival, the network turned to Bucky and Vinny, two cab drives-turned-movie critics,…
In April 2018, Showtime sent members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences voting for the Emmy Awards a DVD set containing all 18 part of Twin Peaks: The Return. This five-disc set was in advance of the “For Your Emmy Consideration” campaign launched in May that year. There was an event held on May…
In May 2018, Showtime launched a “For Your Consideration” campaign for Twin Peaks: The Return. This campaign was designed to appeal to members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences who would be voting for the Emmy Awards. From a special event held on May 2 with David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern to…
Leading up to the release of Twin Peaks: The Return, the Showtime publicity team released an electronic press kit around April 22, 2017. I saved images, videos and layouts from this kit on January 9, 2021. Since the kit is no longer available, let’s take a look a back at how the third season details were…
In anticipation of Emmy Award nominations in July 2018, Showtime ran a series of For Your Consideration (FYC) advertisements featuring media outlet reviews of Twin Peaks: The Return. I previously discussed the IndieWire advertisement with Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan). This ad includes a one word summary from an article in The Washington Post…
From May to June 2018, Showtime released a series of Twin Peaks “For Your Consideration” (FYC) advertisements in hopes of gaining Emmy Award nominations for the limited series. The FYC ads featured Laura Dern, David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan paired with reviews from notable news outlets. This oversized advertisement was paired with a quote from…
As a follow up to their collection celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Twin Peaks in 2020, London-based Milltag returns with a limited release cycling attire collection inspired by the otherworldly Red Room. Once again, I apply my archivist approach with a look at this damn fine collection and the press surrounding it.
For my quest to document every film Twin Peaks location, I want to identify and examine all the scenes that were shot on soundstages. While the overall location will be consistent for all of these scenes, the details uncovered will be interesting to explore. Let’s start with Dougie Jones’ appearance in the Red Room from Part…
While recently researching images for the Costuming Peaks article about Shelly Johnson’s outfit from Season 1, I became enamored with her robe. It first appears in the Pilot Episode and would be carried over to other scenes in the first two seasons. I wondered just how many robes were seen in Twin Peaks. Good news…
This past week, I woke up from a dream with the idea for this article (no rock throwing was involved). Since David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks first aired on the ABC Television Network in April 1990, there have been many variations on the series logo. Granted, some of these variations are based on graphic…