Fox has jumped on the bandwagon of reviving old TV shows and put "The X-Files" back into production.
Creator Chris Carter along with his stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who played FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, will return for a six-episode event series. Production on the show, whose plot has not been revealed, will start later this summer.
Mulder, it's me. Are you ready? MT @MichaelAusiello XF Revival Official @DavidDuchovny & @GillianA Back for 6 New Eps https://t.co/qZi1v8RazZ
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) March 24, 2015
"I think of it as a 13-year commercial break," Carter said in a press release. "The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories."
"The X-Files" ran for nine seasons on Fox starting in 1993. The show earned 16 Emmys, five Golden Globes and a Peabody Award. It also spawned two theatrical movies, "The X-Files: Fight the Future" (1998) and "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" (2008).
"We had the privilege of working with Chris on all nine seasons of 'The X-Files' - one of the most rewarding creative experiences of our careers - and we couldn't be more excited to explore that incredible world with him again," said Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOS of Fox Television Group.
"'The X-Files' was not only a seminal show for both the studio and the network, it was a worldwide phenomenon that shaped pop culture - yet remained a true gem for the legions of fans who embraced it from the beginning. Few shows on television have drawn such dedicated fans as 'The X-Files,' and we're ecstatic to give them the next thrilling chapter of Mulder and Scully [that] they've been waiting for."
The revival of "The X-Files" joins other shows that have been given a second life by either their former networks or on a new platform. Fox already brought back "24" for a limited-run series last summer.
NBC will premiere "Heroes Reborn" later this year and Showtime will renew the "Twin Peaks" story after 25 years in 2016. "Arrested Development" returned for a fourth season on Netflix in 2013.
