Fox bringing the show back for 6 more episodes. I was a huge X-Files fan so part of me is happy it's coming back, but I also think it's a little too late. It's all good though. I'll still watch.
?The X-Files? Revival: Fox Orders Six New Episodes With David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson | TVLine
The real reason why Fox is doing 6 more episodes? --> The 'X-Files' Revival Isn't About Fans Or Closure, It's About Netflix - Forbes
Makes logical sense to me.
?The X-Files? Revival: Fox Orders Six New Episodes With David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson | TVLine
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X-Files Revival Officially Ordered at Fox, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Back for 6 New Episodes The truth is right here: The X-Files is indeed returning to Fox, with original stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprising their respective roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Fox has officially ordered a six-episode continuation of its phenomenally successful supernatural drama, to shoot this summer and (presumably) air at some point next season. (An official airdate remains TBD.) “I think of it as a 13-year commercial break,” said X-Files creator Chris Carter, who will oversee the new episodes. “The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories.” The X-Files ended its nine-season run on Fox in May 2002, but the franchise was resurrected on the big screen in 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe, a follow-up to 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future. When last we saw Mulder and Scully in Believe, they were grudgingly helping the FBI find some missing women/bust up a bizarre, Frankenstein-like operation in Virginia. Also important to know: The bureau had pardoned Mulder for going on the lam (at the end of the series’ run), Scully had returned to her medical career, and the partners were still romantically entangled and living together. Duchovny will next be seen in NBC’s Charles Manson-themed drama Aquarius, while Anderson has Season 3 of Hannibal on deck. Coincidentally, the two shows will air back-to-back on Thursdays this summer. News of the X-humation comes roughly a year after Fox jump-started another one of its marquee franchises, 24, with a limited-series order. Although Live Another Day didn’t make much noise in the ratings, it was well-received by critics and fans alike. “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 Fox chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden in a statement. “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, and we’re ecstatic to give them the next thrilling chapter of Mulder and Scully they’ve been waiting for.” |
The real reason why Fox is doing 6 more episodes? --> The 'X-Files' Revival Isn't About Fans Or Closure, It's About Netflix - Forbes
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The 'X-Files' Revival Isn't About Fans Or Closure, It's About Netflix The X-Files is returning to Fox as a limited-series event with a six-episode order that’s set to begin production later this year. Of course the news met yesterday with massive excitement among fans – particularly on social media. However, while it’s exciting, the truth of the matter is this revival has nothing to do with making those fans happy. It also has nothing to do with bringing closure to the show’s loose plot threads. In fact, it doesn’t even have anything to do with Fox trying to land a giant Nielsen score upon the revival’s premiere. No, all the X-Files reboot has to do with is a deal for the show’s exclusive streaming rights. Back in November 2013, we discussed the reason why Nikita, The CW’s painfully low-rated action series, was given a final six-episode season that wouldn’t ultimately bring its total to the 88-episode minimum required for traditional syndication. The conclusion was rather simple: a series that concludes with a six-episode wrap-up would be more viable to outlets like Netflix and Amazon since a show that has ended properly is more likely to be watched by customers on the service than one that didn’t. Similarly, this is what The X-Files revival is really about. Just prior to its return last May, Fox struck a lucrative streaming deal with Amazon for the entire canon of 24. Previously, the show had been available on both Amazon and Netflix. The fact that Live Another Day was to follow only a short few weeks later made what was a dead property a hot commodity. Essentially, 24 became found money. The mistake, however, was in the money Fox spent to bring Jack Bauer back to life, and this is a mistake it isn’t about to make again – the explaining the short-order 6 episode season. A revival of The X-Files means all of the show’s previous work is valuable again. Old fans are going to start re-watching it, and newcomers are going to start seeking it out in order to get caught up before the premiere. The reason this matters is because Fox can use that leverage to strike yet another highly valuable streaming deal with one of the big three (Netflix, Amazon and Hulu) to make some serious money off the currently dead series. Just as Transformers movies are about selling toys more than movie tickets, a new X-Files is all about selling Netflix subscriptions more than it is about Nielsen ratings. Fox doesn’t actually care that people want a new season of The X-Files, but they do care that Netflix would pay big money to stream the show exclusively in order to allow people the chance to catch-up beforehand. Like 24, X-Files is now nothing more than found money for 20th Century Fox Television. It’s actually this logic that will be the reason why shows like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Reaper will never be revived. A network revives an old, cult show to make the original investment viable. Fox network won’t benefit from the airing of new X-Files episodes, but its sister studio will – which ends up benefiting Fox network in the long run. Fox would never air more Sarah Connor Chronicles because it’s a Warner Bros. show, so the only entity that benefits from a streaming deal that would happen because of such an announcement would be Warner Bros. 24: Live Another Day was the show’s lowest rated season, but it didn’t matter because Amazon paid big money for it anyway based on expectation. The same will be true for Heroes Reborn later this year, and it will be true again for The X-Files. Don’t kid yourself into thinking Fox cares about your desire to see Mulder and Scully’s journey come to a proper conclusion. To them, you’re nothing more than leverage for the likes of Amazon, Netflix and anyone else who would pay for the right to steam exclusively. |