My comeback, season 3: first look, Lisa Kudrow returns

…and Andrew Scott arrives in the sequel to the HBO series.

She’s back. Again !

HBO has revealed the very first image from season 3 of My Comeback, confirming the return of Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish (above)—and also announcing the arrival of Andrew Scott to the cast.

Andrew Scott, aka the hot priest from Fleabag, joins the adventure to play a studio boss with whom Valerie will come up against. King says: “We wanted an essential character, not a bad guy, but someone crucial to the story. And we landed a very important actor to play him.”

And bonus, we learn that the new season will be released in March 2026, as revealed by HBO boss Casey Bloys during the presentation of the HBO Max line-up in London on Wednesday evening.

On stage, Lisa Kudrow and her co-creator Michael Patrick King lifted the veil on the pitch for this season 3: Valerie is involved in the first sitcom ever written by an artificial intelligence.

King joked: “The joke about ‘AI sucks’ is already a thing of the past. Everyone was saying ‘My speech was written by ChatGPT’ at the last ceremonies! We had to go further and imagine: what would happen if AI learned quickly, and if people tried to stay one step ahead?”

For Bloys, the subject is so hot that he encouraged the team to go for it:

“When we get to next March, we think we’ll still be a little ahead of the curve, but no one will really have ‘owned’ the subject.”

And then Lisa Kudrow also confided that they filmed this season 3 of My Comeback on the historic set of… Friends!

“I had to shield myself every day, otherwise I would cry,” she said. “Because… this trilogy, this character, this series means a lot to me. And then ‘Friends’, obviously, too.”

Several iconic actors from the series are back: Dan Bucatinsky (Val’s publicist), Laura Silverman (producer Jane) and Damian Young (Mark, Valerie’s husband).

As a reminder, The Comeback was first broadcast on HBO in 2005 (13 episodes), before being canceled, then resurrected in 2014 for a season 2 of eight episodes.