David Duchovny has spoken to The Hollywood Reporter about the upcoming six-episode season for The X-Files, stating that we can expect it to be more like a running serial than an episode-by-episode series.
Duchovny stated, “…as the TV landscape changed and as it became conceivable to do this show without doing 22 or 25 [episodes] of them on television, then it seemed like a natural thing. We all started to think, ‘I don’t mind doing it on TV if we don’t have to do a full season. We just could make it like a six-hour movie.’”
Talking about the second film, X-Files: I Want To Believe, he adds, “Fox made some mistakes with that movie that hurt the franchise and they didn’t seem to want to do another movie.”
More of the interview can be read at the above link.
The new season of The X-Files is set to film this summer. No premiere date has been locked down.