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The Comeback

It's time to face reality.

TV series
2005–2026
3 seasons
HBO
Comedy
Drama

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7.4 TMDB worldwide · 78 ratings

For Valerie Cherish, no price is too high to pay for clinging to the spotlight. Desperate to revive her career, she agrees to star in a reality TV series, allowing cameras to follow her every move as she lands a part on a new network sitcom.

About the show

The Comeback (titled onscreen as The Comeback: Raw Footage for its first season) is an American sitcom. created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King, a former executive producer of Sex and the City, for HBO. Kudrow and King additionally serve as writers and executive producers of the series, with King also having directed several episodes. The series originally aired for a single season of 13 episodes from June 5 to September 4, 2005, before being canceled. Nine years later, The Comeback was revived for a second season of eight episodes that aired from November 9 to December 28, 2014, with the new intent being that a third season would be filmed the following decade. As such, ten years later, it was renewed for a third and final season, also with eight episodes, that premiered on March 22, 2026, with the series finale airing on May 10, 2026.

The Comeback is a satire of the entertainment industry, starring Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish. Shot by a two-camera crew, the first season is presented as found footage shot for the fictional reality show within the series, also called The Comeback. The second season is presented as found footage shot by a camera crew originally commissioned by Valerie to pitch a pilot to noted reality TV producer Andy Cohen, later repurposed as behind the scenes web content, and then into a full-scale documentary. The third season is presented as a mix of single-camera scenes and found footage shot by returning filmmaker Jane Benson, with social media and digital and security footage of Valerie's role in an AI-written sitcom also utilized.

The show has received widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise for the writing and Kudrow's performance, which has received three Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

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