The Comeback to Return for Third and Final Season on HBO

Twenty years after the first season debuted in 2005, and 10 years after the second season, HBO has announced that the original comedy series The Comeback, from Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, will return for a third and final season.

Season three will begin production this summer and is expected to debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2026.

The returning regulars for The Comeback Season 3 include Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky, Laura Silverman, and Damian Young.

“No matter what the industry throws at her, Valerie Cherish is a survivor,” said Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO & Max Comedy Programming.

“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.”

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

The Comeback is created by Michael Patrick King (And Just Like That…) and Lisa Kudrow (The Parenting), who executive produce alongside John Melfi and Dan Bucatinsky.

In the series, cameras follow Valerie Cherish (Kudrow) as she makes yet another leap toward TV stardom. Valerie previously starred on the television sitcom “I’m It!,” which sparked her nickname of ‘It Girl’ when the show was popular… back in the early ’90s.

Since those glory days, however, the star’s life has been a different: Cherish was dying to get back in the spotlight so she agreed to a reality TV series, allowing cameras to follow her every move as she landed the punch-line role of Aunt Sassy on a dreadful network sitcom, “Room and Bored.”

The Comeback is the raw, uncensored footage from those reality cameras. The dark comedy explores the madness of the television world, a Beverly Hills lifestyle, and the bravery of a comic-tragic aging actress as her career flounders.