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Gillian Anderson Shares Hilarious Vintage “X-Files” Christmas Commercial

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Think about it. The polar base. The hyper light travel. Is Santa Claus…

AN ALIEN?!

That’s the question posed by Mulder in this hilarious vintage TV spot for “The X-Files,“ shared by Gillian Anderson over on Twitter this week. The video, which I personally don’t recall ever seeing before, ponders if the jolly old elf is actually a benevolent extraterrestrial, which sounds like the premise for the best “X-Files” episode ever.

You may remember that the show featured Christmas-themed episodes in Season 5 (“Christmas Carol”), Season 6 (“How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”) and Season 7 (“Sein und Zeit”), but there wasn’t actually an episode centered on Mulder and Scully’s attempt to track down the real-life Santa Claus. Bummer, isn’t it?

In any event, we can only assume this vintage TV ad aired on FOX during the holiday season back in the ’90s, possibly ahead of one of the aforementioned episodes.

Enjoy this fun blast from the past!

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”

Sandra Yi Sencindiver in “Foundation”

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