Jeff Winger, meet Fox Mulder. Community star Joel McHale has landed a guest starring role on Fox’s six episode X-Files revival. He will play Tad O’Malley, the anchor of a popular conservative Internet news network who becomes an unlikely ally for Mulder. McHale is the first new cast addition for The X-Files revival, which begins production in Vacnouver, Canada later this month for an early 2016 premiere. He joins a returning cast that includes David Duchovny as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully and Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director W ... [Continua a leggere]

The truth may be out there, but now it's closer than ever. "The X-Files," the blockbuster sci-fi series that ran on Fox from 1993 to 2002, will begin shooting its six-episode series revival in Vancouver in early June -- and much of the old behind-the-scenes gang will be back for the ride, said Glen Morgan, one of the renowned screenwriters and co-executive producers from the show.  Morgan, who is currently in Australia teaching a "showrunner masterclass," told Australian radio host Nicole Dyer in an on-air interview on Friday that the show's first script, penned by series creator Chris C ... [Continua a leggere]

The X-Files is coming back to Vancouver to film a six-episode miniseries, and series creator Chris Carter said he and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are game to stick around for more if the first six go well. “I certainly will leave the door open,” Carter said over the phone from his home up the coast from Los Angeles, where he was at his laptop banging out the script for the first episode. “It’s a huge amount of pressure. I love writing the characters. I love writing the show. I haven’t written the TV show in 13 years ... so I hope it’s going O ... [Continua a leggere]

The upcoming six-episode return of The X-Files is just one of several highly anticipated TV series revivals in the works (see: Heroes Reborn, Coach, Fuller House). But David Duchovny said it wasn't originally the plan to bring his cult favorite sci-fi series back to the small screen. "When I was doing the show, I always assumed – because we started to do the movies – that we would naturally transition to not carrying the load of doing a full season of the show but doing a movie every four or five years," the actor tells THR. In the midst of it's successful nine-season run on Fox, ... [Continua a leggere]

As the month of June draws ever closer, Fox’s X-Files revival is starting to take shape. Original series writers James Wong (American Horror Story), Glen Morgan (BBC America’s Intruders) and Darin Morgan (Those Who Kill) have signed deals with the studio and will help script the six episode limited series revival, TVWise has confirmed. Glen Morgan and James Wong are also set to direct one episode apiece, while Glen Morgan will also serve as an executive producer. The trio have been more-or-less on-board for The X-Files revival for some time, with Chris Carter revealing in a inter ... [Continua a leggere]

TORONTO - "The X-Files" creator Chris Carter returns to Vancouver this summer to shoot a new batch of his sci-fi tales, which pick up eight years after we last saw paranormal experts Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. In addition to returning stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, Carter says fans can expect Mitch Pileggi to return as Walter Skinner and William B. Davis as "The Smoking Man," even though that character had been killed off. "As we say in 'The X-Files,' even though you're dead you're never really dead," says Carter, adding there's "a big chance" the Lone Gunmen will also return. ... [Continua a leggere]

Chris Carter, creator of the X-Files, can't wait to start shooting the series reboot in Vancouver this summer. The paranormal sci-fi series, which always insisted that "the truth is out there," will get a six-episode run on TV next year, Fox announced last month. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who played FBI agents Mulder and Scully, will reprise their roles. Carter will be in Vancouver on Wednesday as the special guest for an industry celebration of National Canadian Film Day, organized by the Vancouver International Film Festival. He spoke to The Early Edition's Ric ... [Continua a leggere]

The truth is simple: Chris Carter loves Vancouver. The creator of hit sci-fi show The X-Files is coming back to the B.C. coast this week to be the guest speaker at a Vancouver International Film Festival Industry panel being held on National Canadian Film Day on April 29. Carter has been invited to discuss The X-Files’ deep connection to the TV and film industry in B.C. since its creation in 1993. Carter arguably opened the province’s doors to American television and film artists when he decided to shoot The X-Files in Vancouver and B.C. for its first five seasons, before taking ... [Continua a leggere]

Part of the truth is out there: We know The X-Files is returning to Fox for a limited, six-episode run. We know it’s being shot in Vancouver, where the first five seasons of the series were shot. And we know David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will reprise their roles of Mulder and Scully. To find out more, The Globe contacted X-Files creator Chris Carter, who is “basically shackled to his computer,” he said, working on the project. It will shoot through the summer and likely air in early 2016, he says. In addition to being a huge television phenomenon with a fiercely devo ... [Continua a leggere]

Chris Carter doesn’t indulge in social media, but he still managed to spawn a trending topic when it was announced that the iconic series he created – The X-Files, about those equally iconic UFO-chasing FBI agents, Mulder and Scully – would be returning to Fox for a six-part event series. Between 1993 and 2002, The X-Files was a veritable cultural phenomenon. The paranormal drama logged 202 episodes over its nine seasons, five seasons of which were shot right here in the 604 before production moved down to Los Angeles. But the event series means more than just a return to a ... [Continua a leggere]

Reopening the files! David Duchovny dished on his role as The X-Files' Fox Mulder and opened up about his relationship with costar Gillian Anderson in a new interview this week. Duchovny, 54, was in Pasadena, Calif. on Thursday, April 2, to promote his new show Aquarius, but spent much of his time at NBC's Summer Press Day discussing The X-Files. Speaking to Us Weekly and other reporters, the veteran actor was asked about the upcoming series reboot, due out as a six-episode miniseries from Fox. While he played FBI agent Mulder for almost 10 years on The X-Files, Duchovny said he's not sure h ... [Continua a leggere]

David Duchovny is gearing up to become Mulder once again with “The X-Files” revival going into production this summer, and he admits he’s always wanted the show to return. “We always wanted to keep it going,” Duchovny told Variety on Thursday at NBC’s Summer Press Day in Pasadena, Calif., where he was on site to promote his upcoming drama “Aquarius,” which premieres May 28. “We always envisioned a movie franchise when we stopped the TV show, and we did two — the second one did well, but I guess not well enough to do a third, and we w ... [Continua a leggere]

EXCLUSIVE: Now that the official greenlight from Fox has arrived – after extremely lengthy talks between Chris Carter, the network and 20th Century Fox Television – the rest of the pieces of the puzzle that is The X-Files revival are starting to fall into place. With David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson confirmed to be returning to their iconic roles, the inevitable question of whether or not any further cast members will reprise their roles is lingering. TVWise can reveal that three key X-Files alums are presently being eyed to reprise their roles in the six episode event series. ... [Continua a leggere]

Sometimes you get lucky. We’d arranged to meet with the actor David Duchovny this week in Santa Monica, Calif., to discuss his new series “Aquarius,” a period crime drama coming to NBC on May 28, for a coming article. Then something else came up. On Tuesday Fox announced that it was bringing back “The X-Files,” which starred Mr. Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as F.B.I. agents investigating alien-related conspiracies and bizarre, often paranormal, crimes. (The Internet noticed.) The series began as an oddity in 1993 but became a phenomenon, running until 2002 and ... [Continua a leggere]

There's just so many people that you'd want to talk to at this moment in X-Files history; the first of which is the show's creator, Mr. Chris Carter. This conversation takes place on March 25th, 2015 as he drives down the California coast and as I sit 3,938 miles away, by my desk with a weak cup of coffee. After the deserved congratulations are exchanged, I tell him that we need to know just how excited he is to come back to The X-Files. "I'm very excited." Carter starts. "I've known about (the greenlight) for quite a long time, the negotiations took so many months, I can't believe it! They w ... [Continua a leggere]