Recently, the ever-charming auteur David Lynch urged cinephiles who might seek to take advantage of new technologies to "get real" and not even consider watching movies on "a fucking phone". I can dig it, David -- a telephone is not my ideal medium for taking in a movie, either. But then again, neither is a computer, and yet, here you are, announcing that your next big project will be a web series.
That's right: Wired is reporting that, for the first time since Twin Peaks, Lynch is making a regular return to episodic network programming. Only this time out, the network in question is the On Network, a company that specializes in internet broadcasting, and the episodes will be of a new web-only series to be based on his quasi-self-help book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity. Goodness knows whether compelling television can be made of a book that advises following the teachings of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in order to access your creative side, but if anyone is up to it, I suppose it's Lynch.
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