Now it’s official: after many rumors came the confirmation that “The X-Files” will be back on TV with new episodes. After 13 years from the end of the show, 6 new episodes will be produced with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who will reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Chris Carter, the show’s creator, will be again the executive producer. Filming will begin this summer and, although no information was provided on their broadcat date, it’s likely that it will happen in 2016.
Lately, it seems that the revival of old shows is becoming a new trend. “24” is back after just a few years but “Twin Peaks” is an old show. In the case of “The X-Files” after the show the second movie, “The X-Files – I Want to Believe”, was produced in 2008. It wasn’t very successful but Chris Carter announced plans to produce a third movie. But now came the announcement of new television episodes.
For Fox, the channel that broadcast “The X-Files” and will broadcast new episodes, it’s a way to try to exploit the reputation of a cult show. According to the magazine “Forbes”, the channel intends to use this type of productions not only to have a good audience and good sales of DVDs and Blu-Rays but also to get a good deal with services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu for their streaming via the Internet.
Nobody expected Fox to produce new episodes of “The X-Files” to please the fans, what we hope is that their quality is high. Honestly, I think the show ended quite wearily and the audience not accidentally had fallen over the past few seasons.
Tere are no information about the plots of the new episodes. Probably they’ll be revealed slowly over the next few months, to help create a little hype. Personally, I’m both excited and fearful. I hope that over the years Chris Carter and his staff had new ideas to continue “The X-Files” in a manner worthy of its best moments.
Despite its flaws, especially concerning the mythology that grew more and more twisted and absurd, “The X-Files” was overall a fun and exciting series starring memorable protagonists. The fear is of course that the new episodes are a bad copy of the old ones. If they succeed, Fox will want to produce more of them but it all depends on how the six new episodes will be received. Expectations are considerable, they’d better produce something good if they want to avoid being flooded with criticism.
