New 'X-Files' Fox Series News: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson Back as Series Returns With 6 New Episodes
After being hinted at for months, Fox officially announced on Monday that "X-Files" will return with six new episodes.
While six episodes may not be sufficient to provide fans with the closure that they have been yearning for, the series could bring them back in droves to find out how FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) have fared in the years since the show's initial run ended.
News of the show's return was greeted with a wave of enthusiasm on social media and it trended on Twitter and other sites.
In it official announcement, Fox announced that series creator Chris Carter would return along with main stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
"X-Files," which premiered in 1993 and ran for nine seasons until 2002, saw Mulder and Scully working as FBI agents and examining a number of paranormal cases. In the show's nine years, over 200 episodes were screened. A number of other actors joined the cast including Robert Patrick who played agent John Jay Doggett in the last seasons.
As for the upcoming six episodes, there is no word on what plots would be featured. Sources said it is likely that each episode will focus on a particular story. Commenting on the show's return, Carter said "after a 13-year commercial break, the world has only gotten that much stranger and it is a perfect time to tell these six stories."
Dana Walden and Gary Newman, who are currently chairpersons and CEOs of Fox Television Group, the studio behind the show, noted that "X-Files was a worldwide phenomenon that shaped pop culture" as they praised its dedicated fans.
Expressing divergent views, Forbes magazine claimed that Fox's plan is to use the six episodes to revive interest in the entire series after which the studio will sell it to the big three streaming providers namely Nexflix, Amazon and Hulu and try to earn money from it.
The magazine also alleged that Fox does not really care about the fans but is trying to attract them to watch the original 200 episodes again by way of the streaming services before the new six "stories" are aired.
