'Twin Peaks' is back on TV, so what's next?

Television is evolving at high speed, and while it continues to be a fruitful marketplace of exciting, original ideas like "The Blacklist," "Scandal" and "Mad Men," the changing business model of the medium has opened the door for more comebacks and reboots.

Consider this past summer's 12-episode event, "24: Live Another Day" (now available on Blu-ray/DVD), which brought terrorist hunter Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) back to TV four years after his landmark series went off the air. The ratings were decent, the buzz was back, and the prospects of Jack coming back to either TV or the silver screen look good.

Perhaps bolstered by that successful experiment - and the emergence of binge-watching - Showtime announced earlier this week that idiosyncratic filmmaker David Lynch will write and direct nine new episodes of his cult classic show, "Twin Peaks," to air in 2016 on the premium cable network. That's great news for fans who were left hanging when declining ratings killed the show after its second season. (And for those of us who need a reason to finally watch it, thankfully, Netflix is here to help us out.)

Fans of other dearly departed shows are hoping for this wave of resurrection to continue, and there's a good chance that the major networks, cable networks or streaming services will happily oblige.

Here are some series I'd like to see new episodes from:

• "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - Joss Whedon has taken a break from TV to make a couple of little films about Iron Man and Captain America, but perhaps the chance to revisit Sunnydale's quippy, quirky bunch of vampire killers could bring him back to the small screen. The show ended after seven seasons in 2003, but there's a whole series of comic books that could be mined for Season 8. (Or maybe you just reinvent the show as a musical; heck, it worked great for that one episode!)

• "Deadwood" - HBO's foul-mouthed Western ended after three (expletive) seasons with no (expletive) closure, and the long-rumored movie that would sew up the loose ends never (expletive) happened. Now is the (expletive) time!

• "Star Trek" - The 50th anniversary of TV's greatest sci-fi franchise will bring us a 13th feature film in 2016, so why not beam up a seventh series while they're at it? Kirk and Spock are doing just fine on the big screen and a new cast of characters could be a hard sell; how about a new version of "The Next Generation" ("Star Trek: Regeneration," anyone?) with fresh actors taking over the roles of Lt. Cmdr. Data, Wesley Crusher and the rest of the Enterprise-D crew? My co-workers and I are thinking Jason Isaacs for Capt. Picard.

• "The Wonder Years" - Disney Channel brought back Ben Savage's "Boy Meets World" as a sequel show named "Girl Meets World," so why can't ABC do the same for his brother Fred? Kevin Arnold's all grown up, and we know from the final episode that he married and had at least one son. Let's see how Kevin Jr. copes with his wonder years, and what Kevin Sr. learned about being a dad from his old man - and if Winnie (Danica McKellar) ever again crossed his path.

What TV characters would you love to meet again? Let me know at sstangland@dailyherald.com or on Twitter at @SeanStanglandDH.

• Sean Stangland is a Daily Herald copy editor and a tireless consumer of pop culture. He showed tremendous restraint by not mentioning a certain island-based mystery show in this column.