Twin Peaks

Steven Spielberg, who was a big fan of the show, was originally set to direct the first episode of the second season before David Lynch decided to direct it himself.

There were plans to spin Sherilyn Fenn's character Audrey Horne off into her own series, that didn't come off. Apparently, Audrey inspired David Lynch for Naomi Watts's character in Mulholland Drive (2001), as Fenn said in an interview in 1997 about the Audrey Horne spin-off, "David was talking about 'Mulholland Drive', he talked about like 'Audrey goes to Hollywood'. She's driving along Mulholland in this convertible car... But it didn't end up happening."

According to director Lesli Linka Glatter, because the Twin Peaks: Pilot (1990) she directed had a convention happening at the Horne's hotel, she decided as a running gag that every time she directed an episode, a different themed convention would be taking place at the hotel.