The X Files confirmed for six-episode return season
By Nick Bond
For fans of The X Files (and let’s face it, we all were in the ’90s), today is a good day: the iconic series officially coming back to TV.
Entertainment Weekly today reports that the paranormal mystery will return to the small screen – with stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, alongside the show’s creator Chris Carter – for a limited run of six new episodes.
“I think of it as a 13-year commercial break,” Carter said. “The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories.”
It’s been a quick flurry of news for the show after such a long silence. Only earlier today in an interview in the new edition of The Big Issue, Anderson said the much-rumoured return for the show, which ended in 2002 but most recently spawned a second big-screen adaptation in 2008, is “a work in progress.”
“Umm, we’re still talking about it. Everyone is hoping it will become a reality.
“At this juncture it’s still a work in progress. I don’t think anything has been signed,” she said.
“Everybody who’s interested is 100% interested. It’s a very different situation once you jump into a negotiation with a network, especially one like Fox.
“Negotiations take months so at that point it is out of our hands.”
In a separate interview with the Daily Mail, 46-year-old Anderson said that the notion of rebooting the show is “to get the old gang back, have some fun and get a bit of closure for us and the audience.”
No word yet on whether any of the other original cast and crew will return for the reboot – or when it will hit screens. Production is slated to start at the beginning of the American summer.