Talk about static. Three top series creators get together to discuss the future–and find an ominous new ratings system, intrusive network execs and increasingly demanding talent, among other concerns. How do some of television’s top producers feel about the state of the industry? Seeking to take the pulse of TV’s creative community on the eve of the new prime-time season, Calendar brought together three producers of current hits–Steven Bochco, Marta Kauffman and Chris Carter–to explore that question. Bochco, 52, will soon be inducted into the Televis ... [Continua a leggere]

PASADENA, Calif. — Chris Carter promises the usual surprises — and a nasty shock or two — when The X-Files begins its fourth season sometime in October. The first episode will be a conclusion to June’s cliffhanger which opened a whole new can of worms of exactly who is doing what to whom. Beyond that, and the fact the season opener is being shot in Kamloops — “This one is set in Canada,” Carter said cryptically, refusing to reveal more detail than that — he isn’t saying much other than, like all good X-Files episodes, this on ... [Continua a leggere]

ROMA - Gli internauti patiti di X-Files hanno un chiodo fisso: Scully bacerà mai l'agente Mulder? Insomma i due avranno una storia sentimentale? L'autore e produttore della fortunata serie televisiva, Chris Carter, aveva promesso in una intervista che ci sarebbe stato qualche 'cedimento', però non tra i due, ma con altri partner, seppur ugualmente affascinanti. "Non sia mai" hanno risposto i navigatori-telespettatori "nessuna interferenza romantica esterna; lasciamo le cose così come stanno, solo cameratismo". E dunque non c'è niente da fare, nemmeno nella nuova ser ... [Continua a leggere]

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Chris Carter, the creator of “The X-Files,” says his show’s been abducted. Fox TV plans to move the popular paranormal hit from Friday night to Sunday night this fall to make room for a new show. “I like to think of ‘The X-Files’ as being abducted,” the writer-producer told a Television Critics Association gathering Wednesday. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson star as FBI investigators Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who handle the bureau’s unsolved and officially shelved “X-files” — case ... [Continua a leggere]

ROMA - Ultimo appuntamento domani con X-Files, il fanta cult televisivo degli Anni 90 in onda su Italia 1 alle 20.30 che termina dal principio e cioè con la puntata pilota intitolata 'Al di là del tempo e dello spazio'. "Abbiamo deciso di rimandare in video la prima puntata, in assoluto la più richiesta per accontentare gli appassionati" spiega Carlo Vetrugno, direttore di Italia 1. La storia è quella di un rapimento del terzo tipo di una ragazza che poi viene ritrovata con due strani segni sulla schiena. Nel frattempo, in un piccolo e mal illuminato ufficio dell'Fb ... [Continua a leggere]

Petite and unimposing in person, Gillian Anderson has a huge and unusually believable presence on screen. Perhaps that explains why fans have sent mail for her to the FBI, which forwards it on her. Anderson, 27, grew up in so many places -including Puerto Rico, London, Grand Rapids, Mich.- that you wonder what her parents did for a living. " They were circus geeks" she says, showing more of a sense of humor than Scully. (Actually, her father runs a film post-production company, and her mother is a computer analyst.) A former punk-rock lover, Anderson studied acting at DePaul University's Good ... [Continua a leggere]

As we talk in the mysteriously small office on the Fox lot in Los Angeles, Chris Carter is surrounded by a library that includes Dolphins, ETs and Angels, Conversation with Nostradamus, Cosmic Top Secret, UFO: The Continuing Enigma and perhaps the scariest book of all - The Bridges off Madison County. Carter grew up in Bellflower, Calif. He started surfing at 12, and after he graduated from California State University at Long Beach, he worked as an editor at Surfing magazine for 13 years. With the encouragement of his future wife, screenwriter Dori Pierson, Carter started writing screenplays ... [Continua a leggere]

EVEN IF HE DID LOOSE TO STEPHEN KING ON Celebrity Jeopardy! last year, David Duchovny remains one smart cookie. How many TV hunks do you know who went to Princeton, then grad school at Yale, and started a doctoral thesis titled Magic and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction and Poetry? The 35-year old Duchovny grew up middle-class and "half-Jewish,half-Scotish" on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father -who wrote such books as David Ben-Gurion in His Own words and The Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew- and his mother, a schoolteacher, divorced when he was 11. David earned a scholarship to Coll ... [Continua a leggere]

The truth about "The X-Files" is in here. At least I hope so. If I seem confused, suspicious or even full-out paranoid, trust me -I have reasons. From the moment I fearlessly choose to accept this assignment, strange things started happening. Unexplained things. Totally paranormal shit. First, how can I explain away the phenomenon of finding myself entranced by a show that I -and much of the Western world- initially dismissed as goofy, spooky kids' stuff? After all, The X-Files was a series that even the Fox network considered less promising than "The adventures of Brisco County Jr." The cast ... [Continua a leggere]

VANCOUVER, B.C. – So this is where sewer monsters lurk. Vampires, too. Not to mention aliens, mutants and – scariest of all – shadowy government figures. Here is where FBI Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder chase down the bizarre, the grotesque and the sinister in an ever-frustrated attempt to uncover The Truth about paranormal phenomena and government conspiracies. “Here,” of course, doesn’t really exist. Except in the surreal parallel world of television. And in the minds of millions of fans worldwide who have turned “The X-Files ... [Continua a leggere]

Siamo andati a trovare Gillian Anderson nell’isola di Capri. È qui che la neo vincitrice del Telegatto per la serie televisiva “X-files” ha scelto di concedersi una meritata vacanza dopo nove mesi di intensa lavorazione: qualche giorno di Beauty Farm all’Europa Palace di Anacapri, a ridosso del monte Solaro, il punto più alto di questa magica isola. “Amo questo posto che mi dà pace e tranquillità”, ha detto l’affascinante interprete dell’agente Dana Scully. Con lei la mamma Rosemary, la sua bambina Piper, di 20 mesi, e ... [Continua a leggere]

LOS ANGELES - I misteri paranormali degli X Files televisivi si insinuano nel mercato dell'home video con una prima collezione di tre cassette masterizzate digitalmente contenenti sei episodi della prima stagione - compreso quello pilota in cui gli agenti Mulder e Scully (David Duchovny e Gillian Anderson) si incontrano per la prima volta - oltre a numerose scene originali mai viste in televisione perché troppo violente per il piccolo schermo. La prima cassetta, intitolata The Unopened file, è stata lanciata sul mercato americano il 29 marzo dalla Fox Home Entertainment; il 4 apr ... [Continua a leggere]

ROMA - Come per i divi di Beautiful giovanissimi ieri sera a Roma e Milano per la vendita di mille cassette numerate realizzate per l'home video con episodi inediti degli 'X files', telefilm cult con storie avvincenti di fenomeni paranormali e alieni da quasi cinque milioni di telespettatori a puntata. Un successo nato in sordina, cresciuto a poco a poco, esploso da qualche mese, da quando Italia 1 ha cominciato a trasmettere le puntate in prima serata la domenica. Protagonisti-idoli del serial sono due agenti dell'Fbi, Fox Mulder, con una passione maniacale per l' irrazionale, e Dana Scully, ... [Continua a leggere]

Panic struck America’s Fox Network when heavy-weight boxing champion Mike Tyson broke his thumb and cancelled a match scheduled for last November 4th. What should be substituted for the highly publicized fight? EUGENE VICTOR TOOMS to the rescue! A liver-gobbling genetic mutant even Tyson would be loathe to race, he remains, two years after his appearance in The X’-Files episodes, “Squeeze” and “Tooms”, one of the show’s most popular monsters. With a two hour hole in the schedule, the network reached into its storage cabinet and offered up ... [Continua a leggere]

MILANO - Con sessantamila prenotazioni nei negozi, è già un successo la prima videocassetta di X-Files. Per il lancio del primo titolo, The Unopened File, la Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Italia ha deciso di solleticare le passioni collezionistiche dei fan, organizzando per il 3 aprile, alle Messaggerie Musicali di Milano e Roma, due serate X-Files. In vendita le prime mille videocassette numerate, poi gadget e simulazione di una "scena del crimine". Tutto il possibile, insomma, per alimentare il fenomeno nato attorno al serial e ai suoi due protagonisti, gli agenti Fo ... [Continua a leggere]