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Skinner and Cigarette-Smoking Man Are Returning For New X-Files Series

We are thrilled that Mulder and Scully are returning to the new6-episode X-Files revival series. But what about the rest of the show’s spooky outsider characters? Well, you’re in luck: Two series favorites could be coming back. While on the Late Show with David Letterman, David Duchovny dropped a few enticing X-Files hints, saying that…

io9 Meredith Woerner Apr 1

Fox Wants To Bring Back The X-Files, David Duchovny And Gillian Anderson

Fox has confirmed that it is in talks to revive its iconic supernatural horror procedural, The X-Files. Speaking Saturday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, Fox TV executives Dana Walden and Gary Newman said they’ve been in talks not only with series creator Chris Carter, but stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, about…

Television Robbie Gonzalez Jan 18

Chris Carter’s Amazon Series The After Is Over

Amazon is walking away from the X-Files creator’s latest TV series, The After. Variety is reporting that Chris Carter’s weird Amazon series is no more. Amazon is walking away from its original plan to fund an entire series. Not super surprising, as the pilot debuted last February and yielded not great reviews. The premise was…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 5

Chris Carter Wants To Make 99 Episodes of New Hell Series The After

X-Files creator Chris Carter is back with the strange, post-apocalyptic Amazon series The After. Inspired (loosely) by Dante’s Divine Comedy, Carter boasted that he would like to make 99 episodes, similar to the 99 cantos in the book. Thankfully Amazon has only given him the cash to make eight. After premiering the pilot episode a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 14

I Want To Believe In X-Files Creator Chris Carter’s New Area 51 Series

Is Chris Carter returning to his alien conspiracy roots? His long-in-development series, based on Annie Jacobsen’s best-selling book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, is finally in official development thanks to AMC. It’s not hard to see why AMC would find a show about Area 51 from the guy who…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 27

First look at The X-Files creator’s new apocalypse TV series The After

The X-Files’ creator Chris Carter returns to TV for The After, a mysterious TV series about eight strangers, brought together to face an even more mysterious apocalypse. Here’s the first clip from the series, and, as you might have gathered by this point, it’s kind of mysterious. The After will be part of Amazon’s second…

io9 Rob Bricken Feb 4

Now that everybody’s already copied The X-Files, is Chris Carter creating a copy of a copy?

It’s hard to imagine what television would look like without The X-Files to borrow from. Tons and tons of television shows have lifted pieces of the classic show’s format, about FBI agents and mysterious, sinister events. So it’s kind of sad to see that Chris Carter is creating a new show that, at first blush,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 7

Which Trend Is To Blame For The Near-Death Of Science Fiction On Network TV?

Science fiction is an endangered species on the “big four” U.S. networks — Lost is ending, and pretty much every other show is in ratings freefall. Which trend should we blame for this turn of events? Which trend is most to blame for killing science fiction on network TV?online surveys

Television Charlie Jane Anders Apr 21

Millennium Returns, With Lance — But Without Chris Carter

Hold on to your 90s conspiracy theories: Millenium is getting a movie, and Lance Henriksen will be returning as his character Frank Black. But here’s the rub — show creator Chris Carter is persona non grata on set. Screen Rant is reporting/speculating that Fox will only distribute the film but not produce it, which means…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 13

X-Files (and Everyone Else), Embrace Your SF Cred

In a bid to avoid being pigeonholed as a nerd icon, David Duchovny claimed he never thought The X-Files was science fiction — then blamed The Dark Knight for The X-Files 2’s lackluster gross. Maybe that pigeonhole is bigger than we thought. Duchovny commented in a recent interview with Sci Fi Wire: I never thought…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Dec 14

X-Files Goes Back To Its Alien Roots

What was X-Files writer, director and producer Chris Carter thinking with this latest movie? The box-office for I Want To Believe proved that no-one wants to watch hours of pointless character babble. So Carter says he’s learned his lesson, and is going back to working with the little green men. Click through for more X-Files…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 1

X-Files Movie Proves Some Things Are Better Left Buried, Say Critics

The first early reviews of the new X-Files movie have shown up online… and they’re not encouraging. Phrases like “Where’s the action?” and “nothing more than an extended episode of the TV series” are being bandied about. But the truly horrifying part is the explanation of Billy Connolly’s weird character — the one with the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 21

Scully Spills What She’s Missed About Mulder

Mulder and Scully are back solving creepy mysteries in this new X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer that just appeared online. And there are two new viral videos that appear to be brief therapy-like sessions of Mulder discussing his feelings about Scully, and vice versa. As for me, “I want to believe” that this time…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12

X-Files 2 Plot Revealed!

The new X-Files movie will tackle themes of religion, weird experiments, and things that make you go eww. The back-cover blurb for the movie’s novelization went online and finally explained just why the movie is called I Want To Believe. Not to mention clearing up all of those little clues, like the picture of Mulder…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 18

X-Files Movie Has a Title at Last

At last, the X-Files movie that’s coming out in July has a title. It will be called X-Files: I Want to Believe, a reference to the poster Agent Mulder had hanging in his office during most of the series. Director Chris Carter told Yahoo News, “It’s a natural title. It’s a story that involves the…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 16

The Complete X-Files on The X-Files

The long-awaited X-Files sequel (as yet unnamed) will be in theaters this summer, and even though it’ll have been six years since X-Files fans have seen anything new, there’s already a lot of excitement buzzing around this movie. Will they find the truth? Will they make a believer out of skeptics? Will they finally just…

io9 Kevin Kelly Mar 31

Gillian Anderson Reveals Kinky Plot of X-Files 3 Movie

Here’s a gem we grabbed at the X-Files movie panel at WonderCon yesterday, thanks to intrepid videographer Roger Chang. A fan asks the panel if there are any stories they wish they’d had a chance to explore in X-Files. After David Duchovny hems and haws about how the new movie is sort of exploring Picture…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 24

Chris Carter Says 9/11 Killed X-Files, But America is Ready for It Again

We just got treated to a very brief clip from the new X-Files movie trailer, featuring a group of mysterious FBI types marching across the icy antarctic snows, with Billy Connolly as a mad grayhair in the lead, crying out, “We’ve found it!” Cut to lightning fast clips of a body being dragged over ice,…

Movies Annalee Newitz Feb 23

No Aliens In X-Files 2?

Here’s the first picture of Mulder and Scully in the long-awaited second X-Files movie. (Click through for the full image.) Director/creator Chris Carter confirmed in a new interview that the movie is missing all of the long-running “mythology” and conspiracy elements from the original show. But he also seemed to hint there would be no…

io9 Charliejane Jan 17

Skinner and Cigarette-Smoking Man Are Returning For New X-Files Series

Fox Wants To Bring Back The X-Files, David Duchovny And Gillian Anderson

Chris Carter’s Amazon Series The After Is Over

Chris Carter Wants To Make 99 Episodes of New Hell Series The After

I Want To Believe In X-Files Creator Chris Carter’s New Area 51 Series

First look at The X-Files creator’s new apocalypse TV series The After

Now that everybody’s already copied The X-Files, is Chris Carter creating a copy of a copy?

Which Trend Is To Blame For The Near-Death Of Science Fiction On Network TV?

Millennium Returns, With Lance — But Without Chris Carter

X-Files (and Everyone Else), Embrace Your SF Cred

X-Files Goes Back To Its Alien Roots

X-Files Movie Proves Some Things Are Better Left Buried, Say Critics

Scully Spills What She’s Missed About Mulder

X-Files 2 Plot Revealed!

X-Files Movie Has a Title at Last

The Complete X-Files on The X-Files

Gillian Anderson Reveals Kinky Plot of X-Files 3 Movie

Chris Carter Says 9/11 Killed X-Files, But America is Ready for It Again

No Aliens In X-Files 2?

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