{"id":440843,"date":"2026-05-14T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/440843\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:58:08","slug":"michael-patrick-king-is-certain-the-comeback-wont-have-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/440843\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Patrick King is certain The Comeback won’t have a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Comeback\u00a0aired its third season finale this week<\/a>\u2014and its series finale, too, if co-creator Michael Patrick King has anything to say about it. The writer and director gave a postmortem interview to Deadline\u00a0this week<\/a> in which he expressed his sincere hope that Hollywood doesn\u2019t get dumb enough any time soon to justify Lisa Kudrow\u2019s Valerie Cherish coming back to mock it, stating that, \u201cHopefully there won\u2019t be any apocalyptic unknown things appearing in the next 10 years that would warrant us to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

King was acknowledging the slightly unconventional timing of the show\u2019s three seasons, which have arrived roughly every decade since the series debuted back in 2005. When the show\u2019s second season arrived back in 2014, it did so in a world being reshaped by the new waves of reality television; the 2026 revival, meanwhile, has been driven almost entirely by King and Kudrow channeling writers\u2019 anxieties about AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Interestingly, King says that the show\u2014which returned with Kudrow\u2019s Valerie being asked to star in a sitcom completely \u201cwritten\u201d by artificial intelligence\u2014very deliberately raced to air with its AI storyline, because \u201cWe\u2019re still in that moment before any studio actually admits they\u2019re using AI, which was our main goal to get on television before that moment happened. That was why we worked so hard to get the show out so it could feel still a little bit ahead of whenever that news is gonna come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite its strangely cyclical energy, though, King says he never intended to bring the series, and Valerie, back every 10 years, and that he and Kudrow are pretty firm about the show now being done. \u201cThis is the finale of the series,\u201d he asserted. \u201cIt feels like the trilogy. Lisa keeps saying it\u2019s a trilogy because it has three pieces, and it feels like beginning, middle and end for us. We never intended to have our brand be, every 10 years, we come back. But now to come back in two years would be ridiculous. So, I don\u2019t foresee that far in the future, but we really, really feel very happy about this being the finale of the series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Comeback\u00a0aired its third season finale this week\u2014and its series finale, too, if co-creator Michael Patrick King has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-440843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}