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The X-Files To Return

Posted by Soulskill on from the more-episodes-are-out-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Fox announced today that The X-Files will return with six new episodes. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will both reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully, respectively, and show creator Chris Carter will return as well. Production begins this summer, but air dates are not yet known. The X-Files originally started in 1993 and ran for 9 seasons, spawning two feature films and a short-lived spinoff called The Lone Gunmen. It won 16 Emmy awards and 5 Golden Globe awards before critical reception soured over the last few seasons. Carter said, "I think of it as a 13-year commercial break. The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories."

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  1. The Lone Gunmen are dead! by Java+Pimp · · Score: 3, Informative

    So I'm sure we won't be seeing them in any of the episodes.

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    1. Re:The Lone Gunmen are dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not actually true. There's a canonical Season 10 that was released as a comic book series. In the second issue, the Lone Gunmen are revealed to have faked their deaths; they're alive and well and operating out of a secret bunker accessed through their grave-site in Arlington.

  2. Re:I used to love X-Files ... by zidium · · Score: 4, Informative

    The aliens' plan of releasing a sentient virus to, in effect, terraform human bodies into human/alien hybrids whom would have their consciousness downloaded... it got *seriously* disrupted when Mulder injected the antidote into the main colonization ship, at least a decade or two too early.

    Now, they would have to traverse the stars, and we have NO idea AT ALL if FTL travel is even possible in the X-Files universe (all of the alien vessels could have been coming from the Antarctic mothership), so maybe it will take them 20 years to get here? maybe 2,000? Maybe they have parked motherships in reserve 30 years away from Earth? who knows? :)

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  3. Re:What about McGyver by rhazz · · Score: 3, Informative

    My sister (huuuuge X-files fan) had a 5 foot poster of that Rolling Stones cover over her bed, pretty sure she wanked to it. I was never sure if it was David or Gillian she fancied.