Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback Returning to HBO for Third and Final Season
Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King are reviving their acclaimed satire The Comeback for a third and final run… and we definitely need to see that!
The series — which enters production this summer and returns to HBO/HBO Max in 2026 — originally hit screens in 2005. An eight-episode Season 2 followed nearly 10 years later in 2014. The show tells the story of a B-list sitcom star who's so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality television show called The Comeback. 'Cameras follow her every move as she angles to keep her head above the Hollywood fray, even as she's woefully out of touch with modern show business,' reads the official description.
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'Valerie Cherish has found her way back to the current television landscape,' Kudrow and King said in a joint statement Friday. 'Neither of us are surprised she did.'
'No matter what the industry throws at her, Valerie Cherish is a survivor,' executive vice president, HBO & Max Comedy Programming Amy Gravitt said. 'On the 20th Anniversary of her debut, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow have brilliantly scripted her return to HBO.'
Watch Valerie announce her new show below:
Kudrow and King recently commented on a then-potential Season 3 in a Variety Q&A, noting that Valerie is so endlessly entertaining because her quest for fame and respect leaves her endlessly frustrated.
'It's really about whether we can find an idea worth going beyond one joke,' King said. 'She'll show up at one of those lunches, and I'm laughing as hard as I did 20 years ago. It's the same vibration. The thing about Valerie — the reason why, if we find an arena, it's going to be great — is that Valerie will never get everything she wants. It's thrilling when you have somebody who's practically a Greek character, going through the underworld to get the golden apple and coming back up like, 'Well, I got it!''
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Aside from Kudrow, returning for the final run as regulars are Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal), Laura Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program) and Damian Young (Ozark). (Robert Michael Morris, who played Mickey, died in 2017.)
The Comeback was created by King and Kudrow, who executive-produce alongside John Melfi and Bucatinsky.
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