Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) is staging her comeback once more. Once more.
Season 3 of HBO’s beloved mockumentary sitcom “The Comeback” premieres March 22 on HBO after first debuting on the SXSW Movie & TV Pageant. The trailer, which debuted on-line Thursday, additionally broadcasts this season because the final. (I’ll imagine it once I see it, sequence co-creator — and “And Simply Like That” govt producer — Michael Patrick King, aka king of repeat revivals.)
Season 3 finds Kudrow’s character starring in a brand new sitcom, and once more making a documentary about her life on and off the set, with a writers’ room that includes John Early, Abbi Jacobson, and, yep, AI … since that is “The Comeback” in 2026 in any case. As a part of her promotion for a brand new sequence known as “How’s That?,” she additionally makes an look on “Scorching Ones” (a must-stop for any self-deprecating and humility-chasing celeb nowadays) because the trailer signifies. Plot particulars are in any other case scarce for the brand new season… and we are able to’t wait to see that.
The mockumentary-style sequence follows Kudrow as a faded-out former sitcom star desperately attempting to mount a profession revival. Within the first season, that included hiring a digicam crew to observe her round as she ready to star as Aunt Sassy in a middling comedy sequence about sexy roommates. In Season 2, Valerie Cherish was forged by her former nemesis, TV author Paulie G. (Lance Barber), in a sexist HBO “darkish comedy” sequence known as “Seeing Pink,” co-starring Seth Rogen and with surprising parallels to the red-headed star’s personal life.
Andrew Scott can also be within the forged for Season 3, together with Dan Bucatinsky, Laura Silverman, and Damian Younger from the unique sequence, plus Tim Bagley, Matt Cook dinner, Jack O’Brien, Ella Stiller, John Early, Barry Shabaka Henley, Abbi Jacobson, Tony Macht, Brittany O’Grady, Zane Phillips, and Julian Stern.
Season 2 of the sequence concluded in 2014, with the unique season airing in 2005.
Watch the trailer for “The Comeback” Season 3 beneath.