Some interesting news is coming out of the Television Critics Association, where Showtime President and CEO David Nevins spoke about the upcoming third season of “Twin Peaks“. The series will be making its return to TV after 26 years and an ambiguous and frustrating ending.

Firstly, Nevins confirmed via SlashFilm that all episodes have finished shooting and that they were all directed by co-creator David Lynch. President of Programming Gary Levine added that Lynch has also taken on the task of editing all episodes and, interestingly, “…scoring every episode.” I’m not sure that that means for composer Angelo Badalamenti, who scored the original two seasons and was confirmed to return back in Spring 2015. Levine explained, “It’s a process of seeing how it evolved. That organism continues to evolve. Until [Lynch has] figured that out and shows it to us, we actually won’t know.””

Now, here’s where things get really interesting. According to Nevins, new episodes of “Twin Peaks” might not fit the standard mold of squeezing into a 30 or 60 minute block. Instead, each episode might have a run time of its own. When asked about this, Nevins replied:

I’m definitely open. Everything about Twin Peaks is going to be unconventional. Unconventional in the handling of it and how we put it out in the world and how we market it. I want to really embrace the unusualness of it. I think it is quite possible we’re not going to do a traditional release pattern. I don’t know exactly what that means yet. I’ve had a couple conversations with David but I want to embrace the unexpectedness of it. I could definitely see longer episodes or this question of how do we release it linearly and how do we release it for people who want to stream it. There may be some difference between the two. There’s all sorts of possibilities.

As for how many episodes the show is going to have in the end, no one is really certain at this point. “It was never a prescribed number of episodes in that way and continues to evolve through the filming and editing process,” Nevins states.

All of this doesn’t really matter if the show doesn’t have that magical air about it that only “Twin Peaks” can bring. Levine realizes this and told attendees, “In watching a little bit of dailies of Twin Peaks, we were both just instantly transported. It was really amazing. These weren’t even cut scenes. David was happy to share some of it with us. Boy, just looking at the dailies, the tone, the feel. It is so singular, we can’t wait to show it to the world.”

Nevins adds, “It’s really gorgeous and it has that feeling of sort of unsettling, eerie mystery but also stuff that’s really funny. I think it’s got a real sense of incredible specificity of Lynch’s characters.”

I guess the only thing we can is sit back and wait. Time to heat up a slice of cherry pie and get a pot of coffee brewing.