The Comeback’ Is Back: Lisa Kudrow Comedy to Return for Long-Awaited Third Season

And Just Like That” cre­ator Michael Patrick King will be the showrun­ner once more

Every 10 years, it looks as though Lisa Kudrow will stage a brand-new “Come­back.” Exact­ly 20 years after the beloved com­e­dy series’ first sea­son debuted in 2005, and 10 years after Sea­son 2 in 2015, Kudrow offi­cial­ly is repris­ing her cult favorite role of Valerie Cher­ish for “The Come­back” Sea­son 3.

Cre­ator Michael Patrick King, who is now pulling dou­ble duty at HBO with “And Just Like That,” will return as showrun­ner. HBO is billing “The Come­back” Sea­son 3 as “the final sea­son,” but who knows if, in 2035, there will yet be anoth­er iter­a­tion. The third sea­son will pre­miere in 2026 on HBO and HBO Max; pro­duc­tion will begin this sum­mer.

The Come­back” cen­ters on has-been sit­com actress Valerie Cher­ish (Kudrow) who makes her big return to net­work TV with a real­i­ty show called “The Come­back.” Valerie pre­vi­ous­ly led com­e­dy “Room and Board” and is look­ing to stage a reboot. Sea­son 2 saw Valerie being Emmy-nom­i­nat­ed (Kudrow also was nom­i­nat­ed in real life for both sea­sons) after play­ing a ver­sion of her­self for a HBO dram­e­dy

“No mat­ter what the indus­try throws at her, Valerie Cher­ish is a sur­vivor,” Amy Gravitt, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, HBO & Max Com­e­dy Pro­gram­ming, said in a press state­ment. “On the 20th anniver­sary of her debut, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow have bril­liant­ly script­ed her return to HBO and we can’t wait to see that

King and Kudrow added togeth­er, “Valerie Cher­ish has found her way back to the cur­rent tele­vi­sion land­scape. Nei­ther of us are sur­prised she did.

Dan Bucatin­sky, Lau­ra Sil­ver­man, and Dami­an Young will all be back for Sea­son 3. King, Kudrow, Bucatin­sky, and John Melfi will exec­u­tive pro­duce

King recent­ly told Vari­ety for the show’s 20th anniver­sary that a Sea­son 3 would be pos­si­ble about “whether we can find an idea worth going beyond one joke.” He added, “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!’”