Lisa Kudrow Says THE COMEBACK Will Have 3rd Season

Lisa Kudrow recently told BlackBook that she and co-creator Michael Patrick King have the go ahead from HBO for a third season of the BRILLIANT series The Comeback!

"We’re talking about what comes next, but we’re not in a rush. At first I didn’t talk to Michael about it, out of panic, but we were done in December and I thought, oh god that means we have to start up again next month. I don’t know if I can, it’s too soon, I’m too tired.

"And then we talked about it, and said we don’t have to, we can wait a year and a half. Then HBO said, yeah, whenever, whenever you have it, let us know. It’s wonderful."

Yes, please.

Regular readers know I'm a HUGE fan of the show. Lisa Kudrow shows more complexity and depth playing a shallow sitcom actress than imaginable. The final episode of season 2 was perfection.

If you haven't watched yet, it's required watching.  Check out Season One here and Season Two here.

Behind The Scenes Of "Seeing Red" With Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Kudrow's "Valerie Cherish" shares a behind-the-scenes look at Seeing Red, a new HBO series. Watch Sundays at 10PM on HBO.

Tonight - The Comeback of "The Comeback"

Lisa Kudrow: "Gay Men Are Superior Beings"

Lisa Kudrow on her love of her gay fans, via PrideSource:

"I don't know who I'm going to offend by leaving them out, but I need to say that I think gay men are superior beings in my mind. I do believe that.

"It's all so tricky. I studied biology and the brains are anatomically different. They just are. There's a stronger connection with the corpus callosum (in gay men). The two sides of the brain communicate better than a straight man's, and I think that has to be really important.

"They're not women - they're still men - and women also have thicker corpus callosums, so I think it's the combination of those qualities that makes them like a superhuman to me."

Kudrow's ground-breaking series returns for a second season after a ten year hiatus on HBO November 9th. Don't miss it.

(h/t Bilerico)

Trailer: The Comeback of THE COMEBACK

Lisa Kudrow is just brilliant as "Valerie Cherish" in The Comeback which returns to HBO on November 9th for a new season after a nine year hiatus.

Can. Not. Wait.

OUT's Aaron Hicklin got the chance to ask Lisa Kudrow about The Comeback's first season in 2005 and how Kudrow's "Valerie Cherish" is different today:

Kudrow on the 2014 "Valerie"
“This season, things are just a little bigger. Valerie’s not in a four-year marriage—it’s a 14-year marriage. Also, her mind-set about reality and dignity is a little different, because we’ve all since accepted, Oh, there’s probably a camera somewhere. You know, someone flips a table: ‘Well, I guess that’s good TV.’ Back then, she really thought everything about her was fantastic, and the only time she started to crack was when she began to suspect she’d been taken advantage of. We have a little more of that earlier on this time around.”

The uncomfortability of indignity
“My husband has a hard time watching The Comeback. When we were first making the show, he came to visit the set and saw a scene and said, ‘Who wrote that? Who’s making my wife do that?’ And they replied, ‘Uh, your wife wrote it.’ A couple of years ago, I watched all of them again. And with the first two, I thought, Wow, this is brutal. There was no violence and no sex, and yet it was really uncomfortable. But that’s how it is everywhere. Everyone has to suffer some kind of indignity to get along in his or her professional pursuit.”

Read more at OUT.

And mark your calendars - The Comeback Season 2 begins November 9 on HBO.

HBO's "The Comeback" Is Back - November 9th

First look at HBO's "The Comeback" starring Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Kudrow's under-appreciated 2005 HBO series "The Comeback," about a faded sitcom star who banks on reality show cameras following her return to TV, won critics but floundered in it's fight to find an audience.  I thought it was brilliant. Sadly, in spite of an Emmy nomination for Kudrow, it was cancelled after one season.

The world wasn't ready, in my opinion.

But now, it is.  HBO has brought Kudrow and her creative partner Michael Patrick King together again for 8 new episodes that finds Kudrow's "Valerie Cherish" in the year 2014. And she's still coming back.  Or at least trying to.

Beginning November 9 at 10PM on HBO.

Lisa Kudrow Does "Pacino" In New The Comeback Teaser

The return of HBO's The Comeback premieres in November 2014.

HBO's "The Comeback" gets a Twitter account

HBO's "The Comeback" returns this fall with a six episode mini-season.

And what's a TV show without a Twitter account? Follow Lisa Kudrow as "Valerie Cherish" on Twitter at @TheComebackHBO

Valerie Cherish has a special message for all of her fans: http://t.co/1SuJEH8MYt
— The Comeback (@TheComebackHBO) May 20, 2014

HBO tweets the return of THE COMEBACK this fall starring Lisa Kudrow

HBO tweeted this today: "#TheComeback, from @LisaKudrow and Michael Patrick King, will return for a new season this fall."

SQUEE!!!!

Can't wait!

Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback" to get 6 episode reboot

Kenneth In The (212) is reporting that "The Comeback " is coming back!

Kenneth says he spoke with a representative in the Manhattan HBO offices and they confirmed the rumor.

Lisa Kudrow's brilliant, one-season series will receive a six-episode reboot -- "Revisiting 'The Comeback' 10 Years Later" -- and will feature all of the main characters, including Kellan Lutz, Malin Ackerman, Lance Barber, etc.

I was a big fan of the series when it debuted in 2005.  Many folks look back now and agree it was simply a matter of being "before it's time."

Kudrow played an actress who had once been the star of her own sitcom, but was on the downside of that fame. She agrees to star in a reality show chronicling her return to TV as a supporting character in a new series. The tight-rope walk of sharing her true reality versus what we see under a veneer of desperation was expertly done. At times hysterical and other times heart-breaking, the show, once again, confirmed Kudrow's acting chops in top form.

Here's the full pilot episode: