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  • The Entire First Season of The X-Files Is Now in HD on Netflix

    The Entire First Season of The X-Files Is Now in HD on Netflix

    Where I live, it’s a gorgeous day outside. I don’t know what the weather’s like where you live, but if it’s cloudy, rainy, or even remotely cold – I’d suggest a Netflix marathon.

    The entire first season of The X-Files is now streaming in HD widescreen.

    The show originally aired in 4:3, but as creator Chris Carter pointed out in a reddit AMA last year, they “considered HD all along.”

    “I’m imagining that they’ll be released in 4:3. When we began filming the show in 1992, we actually (except for maybe the pilot) considered HD all along. And so there was image and opportunity to expand and modify the aspect ratio. But the fact is these are all decisions made by 20th Century Fox, which I’m occasionally consulted on,” he said in responses to a question about a blu-ray release.

    Netflix hasn’t made any sort of announcement about the remasters, and my repeated attempts to find out the company’s re-uploading schedule have gone unanswered.

    The process began just last week, and by Friday the first 13 episodes of the first season were streaming in their new aspect ratio. As of today, all episodes of season one are updated – but Netflix has yet to get to work on season two.

    4:3 to 16:9 remasters haven’t always been universally welcomed, but these updates should leave fans salivating.

    The X-Files looks better than ever. What a perfect time to relive (or discover?) a great season of television.

  • The X-Files Is Being Updated in HD on Netflix

    The X-Files Is Being Updated in HD on Netflix

    In wonderful, absolutely freakin’ wonderful news, Netflix appears to be in the process of uploading HD widescreen versions of The X-Files – starting with the first 13 episodes of the first season.

    So, as of right now, all episodes up to “Beyond the Sea” are streaming in their new aspect ratio.

    The show originally aired in 4:3, but as creator Chris Carter pointed out in a reddit AMA last year, they “considered HD all along.”

    “I’m imagining that they’ll be released in 4:3. When we began filming the show in 1992, we actually (except for maybe the pilot) considered HD all along. And so there was image and opportunity to expand and modify the aspect ratio. But the fact is these are all decisions made by 20th Century Fox, which I’m occasionally consulted on,” he said in responses to a question about a blu-ray release.

    No word on when Netflix plans to update the rest of the show, but one redditor says that it was only episodes 1-3 that were in HD a few hours ago – so it looks like Netflix is just making its way through them.

    I’ve reached out to Netflix and will update accordingly.

    [h/t The Verge]

  • Gillian Anderson Says Men Are Too Scared To Ask Her On A Date, Stays Single

    Gillian Anderson is yet to give up on love and is seeking the man who will be “brave enough” to ask her on a date.

    The 46-year-old actress shares that she embraces the thought of having a man in her life again although she is happy being on her own.  She reveals that even though she has been married twice – to The X-Files series assistant and art director Clyde Klotz in 1994, and to documentary filmmaker Julian Ozanne in 2006 – she almost always had to take the lead on the relationships.

    ‘I’m so lucky to have such great work. I’ve got a fantastic life, I have a wonderful relationship with my kids, and there’s nothing lacking, but I’m leaning towards the idea that it’s time for somebody to be brave enough to ask me out,” Anderson said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

    “I’ve asked out guys in the past. I remember being in the cinema in the States and I made eye contact with a man going in. I noticed we laughed at same points and seemed to respond in the same way to the same moments. We were both with friends, but he caught up with me as we were filing out. Halfway, I stopped and thought ‘What am I doing?’ So I rushed back down the street, went up to him and said ‘Would you like a coffee sometime?’ We dated for six months,” Anderson recounted.

    The The X-Files star enumerates her rules in dating, which excludes married men and toy boys. The idea of another same sex relationship is definitely welcomed as long as it’s “The One”.

    “I believe at this stage of my life, it’s better not to manipulate the situation. If it happens, it happens. What I am sure about is that I want my next relationship to be ‘The One,’” she said.

    Anderson returns as the skeptic Agent Scully with the return of the The X-Files, which will air was a six-part series. After a 13-year break, Anderson will again be playing her role as an FBI agent with on-screen investigating partner David Duchovny as Agent Mulder.

    The 20th Century Fox hit TV series will begin production this summer.

  • David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson Returning for Six-Episode ‘X-Files’ Event Series

    David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will return to Fox in The X-Files for a six-episode event series. Fox announced the news, that will no doubt thrill fans of the show, on Tuesday.

    “I think of it as a 13-year commercial break,” the show’s creator and executive producer Chris Carter said in a statement. “The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories.”

    The original sci-fi series, starring both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, ran on Fox for nine seasons, from 1993 to 2002. The show focused on FBI agents Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) as they investigated numerous instances of paranormal activity. The X-Files won 16 Emmy Awards and five Golden Globes during its run.

    “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,” Fox Chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group Dana Walden and Gary Newman said in a statement. “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 they’ve been waiting for.”

    It was back in January when Gillian Anderson first hinted at a return to the show.

    “Maybe do something where [Mulder] wakes up from a dream, and he’s been Hank Moody in Mulder’s dream. That was his fantasy,” she said during a podcast.

    Even though a release date for The X-Files six-episode event series hasn’t yet been announced, fans are likely clamoring for more information and blowing up Netflix for past episodes of the show.

    Are you among those who can’t wait to see David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on The X-Files?

  • David Duchovny and Téa Leoni Are Officially Divorced

    David Duchovny and Tea Leoni are officially divorced.

    The couple quietly finalized their divorce in June and reports are only now emerging about the end of the couple’s marriage. According to TMZ, who broke the story, the divorce was filed in June and the two settled all the terms themselves.

    It was Duchovny, 54, who filed for the divorce, citing an irretrievable breakdown of the relationship.

    The couple will share legal custody of their 12-year-old son, Kyd Miller, and 15-year-old daughter, Madelaine West, although they will reside with the 48-year-old actress. The Califonication star owns a nearby apartment in the Upper West Side of New York City, so he will remain close to the kids.

    Duchovny will reportedly pay $40K per month in spousal support and $8,333 per month in child support, as well as other expenses including summer camp, private school and college.

    The couple met at The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and married in 1997. They separated in 2008 when Duchovny was treated for sex addiction, and after a reconciliation following his rehab stint, they separated once again in 2011.

    Duchovny will continue to keep busy with work. With the end of Californication on HBO, the The X-Files alum will return to broadcast television this fall with the NBC series Aquarius.

    “After being involved in the production of both The X-Files and Californication, it gives me great pleasure to work with David Duchovny for the third time on this compelling drama,” said Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, of Duchovny’s casting in the new series that centers around Charles Manson.

    As for Leoni, she will return to television starring as Secretary of State Elizabeth Faulkner McCord in the CBS political drama Madam Secretary.

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  • Silicon Valley Star Launches X-Files Analysis Podcast

    I love The X-Files. You do too, unless you’re terrible. I’ve seen every episode multiple times, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t possibly learn anything new about the classic sci-fi groundbreaker. Thankfully, a new podcast is here to help.

    Kumail Nanjiani already hosts a popular podcast on the Nerdist network called The Indoor Kids, a show that “isn’t just about video games, but isn’t not about video games.” Now, he’s entering new territory with a podcast devoted to analyzing episodes of The X-Files.

    Every episode of The X-Files, in fact, in order, starting with the pilot. Episodes one and two just launched, wherein Nanjiani and a guest break down “Pilot” and “Deep Throat.”

    It’s called The X-Files Files, and it’s an absolutely wonderful idea.

    And look – it’s already popular!

    The podcast’s network, Feral Audio, also house Dan Harmon’s Harmontown and Chelsea Peretti’s Call Chelsea Peretti.

    Nanjiani describes The X-Files as his favorite show.

    You may know Nanjiani from HBO’s great new show Silicon Valley, or from Portlandia. The actor/comedian should be commended for giving the world of podcasts something that it so desperately needed – painstaking analysis of every X-Files episode. I want to be clear that there is absolutely no sarcasm in that statement.

    You can listen to the first episode here.

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  • David Duchovny Signs On For NBC Drama About Charles Manson

    David Duchovny has been seen in a handful of films, but perhaps he will always be known as a television actor. As one show ends, another will begin, and he is finally returning to broadcast television, years after The X-Files ended.

    He gained his initial fame as FBI Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files, and for the past seven years, he has played the constantly drunk, and sex-crazed author, Hank Moody on Californication.

    Chairman of NBC Entertainment Robert Greenblatt said of his casting that “After being involved in the production of both The X-Files and Californication, it gives me great pleasure to work with David Duchovny for the third time on this compelling drama.”

    The series is called Aquarius, and has been given a 13-episode series order before shooting its pilot. However, the show is also being billed as an event series, and may only last for one season. It is similar to what is being done with 24: Live Another Day, and NBC is also bringing back Heroes in a way with an event series called Heroes: Reborn.

    In his return to broadcast television, Duchovny will play a Los Angeles police sergeant who is tracking the infamous cult leader recruiting young women for his “cause,” who has become infamously known as Charles Manson.

    According to NBC, “The twists and turns of a complicated undercover operation will lead Duchovny’s character and his young partner to the brink of Manson’s crimes that will eventually lead to the Tate-LaBianca murders in subsequent seasons.”

    Despite ordering people to commit multiple murders, the tale of Charles Manson has continually sparked interest in people in a similar way to someone like Hannibal Lecter. At the end of the investigation, Manson was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, and he is currently serving a life sentence in Corcoran State Prison in California.

    Aquarius will be set in the late 1960’s, a few years before Charles Manson was caught, and feature a thrilling pursuit of the infamous criminal. Duchovny feels that the show has a chance to be special, and looks forward to getting started with it.

    David Duchovny, who has received Golden Globe nominations for both Californication and The X-Files, has booked his next gig following the seventh and final season of his showtime hit. Season seven of Californication will begin on April 13.

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  • Gillian Anderson Is Writing a Sci-Fi Trilogy

    Publisher Simon & Schuster has just announced a new science fiction endeavor, an imprint called Simon451 (a clear homage to Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451) – and one of the first authors to sign on to the new division is none other than Agent Scully herself.

    Gillian Anderson is set to pen one of Simon451’s inaugural titles – A Vision of Fire – which is actually part of a scheduled trilogy. A Vision of Fire is the first book in the EarthEnd Saga, which Anderson is writing with co-author Jeff Rovin.

    That book, and a few other launch titles are expected to hit in October of this year.

    “This is a very exciting endeavor, and I’m thrilled that Simon and Schuster has taken us under their wing,” says Anderson. “Together, we will make the most of what I hope will be a compelling series of adventures.”

    According to Entertainment Weekly, A Vision of Fire “centers on Caitlin O’Hara, a world-traveling child psychiatrist who specializes in treating kids who’ve suffered trauma from natural disasters and war.”

    Gillian Anderson is of course best known for the role of Agent Dana Scully on the long-running sci-fi series The X-Files. You can also catch her on the excellent BBC series The Fall, which is currently available to stream, in its entirety, on Netflix.

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  • Gillian Anderson And David Duchovny, More X-Files?

    Gillian Anderson, along with her former co-star on the popular television series The X-Files, have said that they would open to the idea of doing another film. The pair have already teamed up for two films following the conclusion of the series, The X-Files and The X-Files: I Want To Believe, but it looks like the pair of actors might be wanting to give their fans more.

    They got together on Saturday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series’ premiere. Anderson and Duchovny participated in a panel discussion at the Paley Center For Media as well as the Comic Con conference over the weekend, which both took place in New York. The actors spent a lot of time promoting the franchise over the weekend as well, a hint that maybe a movie will be in the near future for fans.

    The show ran from 1993 until 2002, and Anderson played agent Dana Scully. Both she and agent Fox Mulder were agents of the FBI, but they had one key difference, the fact that Mulder was a believer of the paranormal and Scully was not. Together, they would investigate paranormal cases, which even led to alien conspiracies within the government. It was also rumored that the actors were a couple on the show, after much sexual tension throughout the franchise.

    Gillian Anderson has also said that if fans want another film, then they should let their voices be heard. Duchovny also showed his support for the project when saying, “Gillian and I want to do it, so it’s really up to 20th Century Fox at this point.” The show was very popular during the time that it aired, and fans of the series should get excited for what is to come. The reception for the last film was disappointing, and many people felt that the franchise had lost its own plot.

    The writer for the series, Chris Carter, has also expressed interest in the third film, despite legal issues that delayed the last film.

    Upon Gillian Anderson’s suggestion, hopefully enough fans will make their voices heard, and allow the third film to be made. Who wouldn’t love to see another X Files film? In an age where much of the population likes to binge on Netflix watching, it is likely that the series has gained many fans since the release of their last two films as well.

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