The Comeback Season 3 Was Not Written By AI<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, TV fans were left delighted when it was confirmed that The Comeback would be returning for a third and final season, which will premiere in 2026. If you didn\u2019t know, the HBO sitcom first aired way back in 2005, but it was canceled after the first season.<\/p>\n
Nine years later, in 2014, it was revived for a second season of eight episodes, and fans then had to wait another 11 years for news of this upcoming last season.<\/p>\n
The show stars Lisa Kudrow<\/a> as a veteran sitcom actor called Valerie Cherish, who is attempting to revive her acting career after a decade-long hiatus \u2014 and ends up participating on a reality show in a desperate bid to stay relevant.<\/p>\n Despite what the long gaps between seasons might suggest, The Comeback was a huge hit with viewers and has a dedicated cult following, so when details of what we can expect from the third season dropped yesterday, people were eager to learn as much as possible.<\/p>\n At a HBO Max slate presentation in London on Wednesday night, Lisa and her co-creator, Sex and the City legend Michael Patrick King<\/a>, confirmed that Season 3 will be hitting our screens in March, and that Andrew Scott<\/a> had joined the cast.<\/p>\n They also revealed that the show\u2019s plot will revolve around Valerie being cast in the first-ever sitcom written entirely by AI, with Michael explaining, per Variety<\/a>: \u201cThe joke that\u2019s already played out is that AI is bad. I mean, that was two awards shows ago \u2014 everybody said: \u2018My speech was written by ChatGPT.\u2019 So we had to go deeper and figure out what would be the issue if AI was actually learning fast and that people were trying to stay ahead of it. So yeah, I mean, we worried about what\u2019s going to happen to everybody. It feels like a real moment.\u201d<\/p>\n But there has, depressingly, been a huge misunderstanding when it comes to this plot point, with many social media users \u2014 somehow! \u2014 mistakenly interpreting the report as confirmation that The Comeback itself is the first sitcom to have been written entirely by AI.<\/p>\n On Wednesday evening, Pop Crave innocuously tweeted<\/a>: \u201c\u2018The Comeback\u2019 Season 3 follows Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) booking a role in the first sitcom ever written by AI,\u201d and all hell quickly broke loose on the social media site.<\/p>\n