We all know how ‘Twin Peaks’ took the world by storm back in the nineties and there are a number of reasons why this was so -

· A True Talent at the Helm

David Lynch is a unique film maker and he has a very unusual way of looking at things. His work is highly stylised and it perfectly suited the quirky, surreal air of ‘Twin Peaks’. Mr Lynch also happens to be a real dab hand at frightening people! In fact, he could make just about anything look dark and disturbing; even if he were commissioned to make a string of television ads for ladies cosmetics.

· Something a Little Bit Different

The vast majority of television programmes were seriously lacking in 1990. Most viewers were really tired of seeing the same old, same old and it was a prime time for something fresh and new to come along. That is why and how ‘Twin Peaks'ended up appealing to a massive mainstream audience.

· A Bunch of Strange People

Because there were so many weird characters in ‘Twin Peaks’, it helped to make the show genuinely memorable. I mean, with people like The Log Lady, The Little Man from Another Place, Dianne and Agent Cooper, you just know you are onto a winner. Characters like these will stick in the minds of viewers who will often recite their trademark lines. In the early nineties it would be perfectly normal to hear someone in the pub saying, ‘Damn fine cherry pie'or ‘The owls are not what they seem’. Er, well maybe you would have needed to have actually been around at the time to understand this….

· The Right Choice of Choons

Getting Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise to do the music for the show was a very good idea indeed. These guys are certainly super-duper talented when it comes to music! Badalamenti’s strange repetitive Jazz inspired rhythms were undeniably menacing in the background whilst Mrs Cruise’s ethereal vocals were ideally suited to scenes with a supernatural slant!!!

· Something to Get Your Teeth Into

‘Twin Peaks'had so much depth to it. Sure, it may have been all about the murder of Laura Palmer to begin with, but it wasn’t long before the show had branched off into a hundred other directions. Needless to say, this made it all far more interesting and there were always plenty of unanswered questions for viewers to mull over between episodes.

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What’s more, they also appear to have come to the rather bizarre conclusion that it would be a good idea to piece together some of the other works of Lynch that have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the content and offer them up as key extras. Of course, most would agree it entirely unlikely that Universal would deliver anything close to a full-on “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” release, but really it is rather on the disappointing side that some of the most amazing Lynch work when filming Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet has been entirely excluded.

So, it remains to be seen how well received the DVD is upon its release in the UK, but I can’t help feeling it may be preferable to ignore the adverts and PVC banners and instead consider looking into a far more enjoyable import.

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When ‘Twin Peaks’ was first aired on television, it was a very exciting time indeed. There weren’t exactly a lot of great programmes to choose from back then, so this show really was a sight for sore eyes. It was fresh, cool and very, very strange. Everyone I knew would tune-in to watch it each week and it was constantly discussed between episodes. ‘Who killed Laura Palmer?’, ‘What made Leland’s hair turn white overnight?’ and ‘What does the Log Lady have to do with it all???’ These were the sort of questions you were likely to hear in any pub or café back in 1990.

And because so many of these things were never properly answered at all, ‘Twin Peaks'has retained every bit of its magical appeal. That is why this show is now one of the daddies of cult TV. ‘Twin Peaks'has never left the minds of those who watched it the first time round and many people still have regular nightmares about the super-scary Killer Bob!

It’s just a shame that this landmark series could not have gone on a little longer. Sure, there may be thirty superb episodes to re-watch (along with the hugely underrated, ‘Fire Walk With Me’), but did it really have to end so soon? There were so many more tantalising things to explore – the ‘Let’s Rock'in large format print on the windscreen, the blue rose and that mysterious tall guy…

Maybe one day David Lynch will decide to take a trip back to the town of Twin Peaks. Mark Frost has hinted a few times that he and Lynch have some ideas for a tie-in project… but there is still nothing definite at the time of writing. One thing is for sure though; if there are to be any new additions to the ‘Twin Peaks'franchise, then they will be very warmly welcomed by its legion of fans!

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Agent Cooper, the backwards-talking midget and the music of Angelo Bedalamenti. A dark crime saga revolving around the mysterious death of Laura Palmer- prom queen from the deceptively quite town of logger, somewhere in the American northwest. A mixture of mystery, horror, soap opera and dark humour. And at the same time sexy and funny, amusing and sophisticated surreal and mundane. Femme fatale from the 50’s, infidelity, drugs, great coffee, an FBI agent, giants and midgets. This TV series is indeed a mixture of many things, and maybe this is why it is, according to me, the best thing that has ever been broadcasted on TV.

Everybody who was watching TV during the 90’s sure knows all about the most famous TV project of David Lynch. But only recently the complete DVD set was released, so now we can enjoy those thrilling episodes once more and just think of the past which brings back memories that make us smile. Twin Peaks celebrates more than two decades after its first appearance and it is fair to say that Twin Peaks is not only an emblematic story but that it gave birth to projects like The X-Files. It is very difficult for me the explain how much I love it. Today there are just too many TV-shows and the viewers just get overwhelmed by stupid storylines, boring screen play and actors who have no idea how to act. They just all look so fake and I am sure that most of them are frequent visitors of one of the many botox London clinics and plastic surgery places where they make all actors to look the same, tacky and fake. Anyway, I just wanted to say that one should really appreciate good TV and not waste one’s time with stupid programs which just make you dumber and dumber.

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I must admit that I don’t usually “celebrate” Halloween. Sure, I used to insist that my Mum nearly crippled herself making me a turnip lantern each year and I once put on a bin bag and some black eye-liner to get into a club free when I was a student, but that’s about it. So when I was invited to a colleague’s fancy dress Halloween party at the weekend, I was genuinely quite excited at the prospect of coming up with a unique and scary costume.

Of course, there was only one costume I could possibly choose when I thought about it; Laura Palmer post mortem! I already had a few bits and pieces from a previous fancy dress party when I’d gone dressed as Laura in the prom photo that everyone knows from the show, so it didn’t take much to add some white face make-up, a couple of ominous bruises and various other subtle touches.

The problem is that Twin Peaks was a long time ago and my costume wasn’t as much of a hit as I’d anticipated. I started the evening asking people to guess who I was, but having received some wacky answers and some less than flattering ones, I realised I should probably have pinned a large format print badge to my person to save all the questions later on. Still, once the wine started flowing all the costumes started to fall apart anyway, so it soon became irrelevant who you had intended to be at the beginning of the party! In fact, I even went home with the wrong colour wig, much to my dismay. So, if anyone picked up a curly blonde wig at a Halloween party at the weekend, and lost a ginger one at the same event, can we arrange a swap please? Laura would definitely not suit being a redhead…

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There are many iconic images that make you think of the 1990s; Michael Douglas in his designer suit fabrics screaming “Greed is good!” and the beginnings of Britpop are two, but that prom photo of Laura Palmer, the victim in Twin Peaks is probably the most memorable. Not only did it appear throughout the TV show itself, but it was reproduced in pretty much every media article discussing the show and was even parodied on numerous occasions. Actress Sheryl Lee (who also played Laura’s cousin Maddy Ferguson in the show) posed for the infamous photograph – but what happened to the actress who had one of the most recognisable faces of the decade?

Amazingly, the stunning Sheryl didn’t go on to have the stellar career I predicted for her! Aside from a major role in ’Backbeat’, the dramatisation of the early years of The Beatles, her filmography lists bad TV movies and guest appearances in drama shows like “Without a Trace” and “House”. One of her most famous recent roles actually never made it to the screen; Sheryl was originally cast as Mary Alice Young, the Desperate Housewife who kills herself at the start of the the series and narrates all the following episodes. Sheryl played the role in an unaired pilot, but was eventually replaced by Brenda Strong.

In recent years, Sheryl has returned to her indie roots, appearing in the widely acclaimed ’Winter’s Bone’, a thriller which earned rave reviews and even an Oscar nomination for its young star, Jennifer Lawrence. Although Sheryl is now very much the wrong side of 40 when it comes to movie roles, she still has the stunning looks that made her prom photo one of the images of the 1990s.

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Of course, the hugely popular game didn’t feature any of the treatises on pies, school murders or the frankly bizarre Twin Peaks cast, but the Game Boy iteration sports a number of so called ‘suspicious'looking types in the cast of characters used, influenced by the increasingly popular and truly wacky mystery serial airing at the time.

Twin Peaks was hugely popular and concerned a small group of people in a small town, with nothing small about the event happening therein. The plan was to make Zelda small enough for anyone to easily becomes engrossed but with zany enough characters and events to really set the mind working.

Aonuma claims to have initially questioned his partner’s sanity, but clearly saw his genius which has become common knowledge for anyone looking deeply enough into the matter. Indeed, in a hugely popular strategy guide for Link’s Awakening, Tekuza is cited as suggesting all of the characters should be afforded a little Twin Peaks-esque mystery and suspicion.

This should really clarify the matter as much as it needs to be for anyone and for those still on the fence, it is clearly so much more fun to assume a Zelda and Twin Peaks connection than otherwise.

Either way, it was certainly never going to inspire a package of time management software. So why not Zelda?

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Born 1946, David Keith Lynch is one of the mastermind creators behind the fabulous ‘Twin Peaks’, yet David Lynch has many strings to his talented bow; filmmaker, musician and occasional actor. After studying painting in Philadelphia David moved to Los Angeles and produced his first full length film – Eraserhead in 1977, now a cult classic. Many years later after producing a number of films he teamed up with Mark Frost to create the highly popular murder mystery television series ‘Twin Peaks'which was first piloted in 1990. David Lynch has had some what of a tumultuous personal life, having been married a total of four times with a number of other long term relationships. David was married to his first wife Peggy Lentz for7 years, his second wife Mary Frisk for 10 years and his third wife Mary Sweeney for less than one. David is currently married to Emily Stofle and has previously had a long term relationship with actress Isabella Rossellini, but the pair never married. David Lynch is arguably one of the most intriguing and creative artists of our modern times, best known for creating beautiful films such as Blue Velvet and Wild Heart, and mesmerising to look at whether he is wearing a suit or dressed down in casual fabrics.

David has a special way of creating both television and film content, conjuring ideas from a thought pool that is both surreal and seemingly absurd at times yet completing compelling and fascinating – watch some of his creations and see for yourself!

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The advent of teen television series started with the creation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which brought in the merging of vampires set in the landscape of the modern American high school.Kicking of the vampire fever brought in the onset of various other television series which incorporate the same theme to follow for many years on.
Its interesting to see how the vampire has changed from the traditional to the modern vampire of today.While the newer series incorporate rich kids who live in expensive Florida Villas, Buffy captured a more general and non specific audience.The universality of the show is what brings it the success it has.The vampire of today seems to have become the image of what every 15-18 year old kid wants to aspire to become.The mystery of these creatures of the night still remains the reason what attracts us to become just like them.The success of movies like Twilight, has clearly proved how commercially packaged characters from the movie have been able to relate to such a large audience.Escapism seems to be the main theme for these series, allowing the audience to travel into a space where they can be who he desire to be.Sex,drugs and violence is what makes the world go round.In the world that we live in, audiences find their road to fantasy through series such as these.
The future of television fantasy series is vast and considering the amount of vampire and supernatural series that have been created,its living proof that the market for them is massive and ever growing.

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I have so much Twin Peaks merchandise in my house that my friends are always telling me I should get myself one of the self storage units so I don’t look like such a weirdo when people come to visit. I always argue that I have my house just how I like it, and besides Twin Peaks was over 25 years ago so there won’t be any more new stuff coming out for me to add to my collection.

Turns out I might have been a bit hasty there. Internet rumours (don’t you just love them?) reckon that ABC might be planning a re-make or some kind of return to Twin Peaks. No-one seems sure if it’s going to be scene-for-scene remake or if the studio will be able to persuade all the original protagonists to return, including the masterful David Lynch, to make a follow-up.

Now, my attitude towards this rumour very much depends on which scenario is correct. If it’s the latter then I will be as excited a kid at Christmas who has also just been told they’re going to Disneyland on holiday after being allowed to drink a dozen cans of full sugar coke. In fact, if the rumour of a David Lynch return to TP is true, I would go so far as to say that it would be the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me. On the other had, words cannot express the revulsion I would feel if some hack was going to butcher the greatest ever TV show in an attempt to boost ABC’s ratings. I feel some kind of boycott would be required…

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