Shortly after the series premiered as BBC Two’s highest rated drama series in 8 years TVWise broke the news that the core cast of The Fall had signed on to do a second run and that BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow was on the verge of green-lighting the second season. Hadlow and the BBC’s Controller of Drama Ben Stephenson have now pulled the trigger on that and formally renewed the series for a second season. There is no official word from the BBC on the number of episodes ordered for the second season or when production will commence, but sources tell me that the order is fo ... [Continua a leggere]

New details have emerged on Georgeville Television’s drama series The After, which hails from The X-Files creator Chris Carter. When the project was announced last October, GVTV offered only a vague description for the series which described the series as “a thriller that tells the story of an unexplained event and features elements of science-fiction, suspense, action and paranoia.” The series doesn’t yet have a broadcaster attached with GVTV and distributor Sierra/Engine targeting the series for either cable or a broadcast run of 13 episodes. That said, however, Sier ... [Continua a leggere]

This second season episode of The X-Files (1993 – 2002) is one of the sharpest, most stunning social critiques in the entire catalog. In “Die Hand die Verletzt,” Mulder and Scully deal -- in storied New England -- with the Satanist equivalent of “Cafeteria Catholics,” religious practitioners who pick and choose which edicts and dogma they want to believe in, and ignore the rest. But when you’re dealing with the Devil himself, it’s dangerous to break faith, as the episode suggests in no uncertain terms. “Die Hand die Verletzt’s” bri ... [Continua a leggere]

The Fall è un Dexter in versione irlandese? A volerlo bollare così, alla buona, sì. È infatti la storia di un serial killer insospettabile, niente di più, niente di meno. Fin da subito sappiamo chi è. Sappiamo che è lui. Il giochino thriller proposto non è allora quello di indovinare chi è l’assassino, che ormai non è più il maggiordomo come nei buoni vecchi gialli di una volta, bensì quello di aspettare che venga beccato, o che perlomeno qualcuno si renda conto che non è una persona normale. &Egra ... [Continua a leggere]

It's been 20 years since Gillian Anderson first picked up the FBI badge and flashlight as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files. Since the series ended, we were more likely to find her on PBS or the BBC than on any major network. That, thankfully, is about to change as she returns to NBC. First in a guest arc on Hannibal (Thursday nights) and later this fall when her pilot Crisis airs. To sate us in the meantime, she's getting back into Scully mode, tracking down a serial killer on the British miniseries The Fall, which will be coming to Netflix May 28. Consider this your much-belated Gilli ... [Continua a leggere]

The Fall became BBC Two’s biggest drama series launch in eight years on Monday night. The series dominated its time-slot and opened with an average audience of 3.5 million and 15.4 percent share, peaking at 3.6 million, making it the highest drama series launch on the channel since Romein 2005. It also beat the BBC Two slot average of 1.79 million (7.4 percent) for the past 12 months. Starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan, The Fall is a psychological thriller that examines the lives of two hunters. One is a serial killer who stalks his victims at random in and around Belfast and t ... [Continua a leggere]

EXCLUSIVE: Allan Cubitt’s new thriller series The Fall, which stars Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) and Jamie Dornan (Once Upon A Time), opened big for BBC Two last night. The series premiered to 3.5 million viewers and a 15% share in its Monday night 9pm time-slot, with consolidated figures expected to raise that number even higher. With those numbers The Fall easily beat off all competition to win the slot. The impressive ratings also make the series the highest rated drama launch on BBC Two in nearly 8 years, since Rome debuted in 2005 with over 6 million viewers in the overnights ... [Continua a leggere]

It’s been 20 years since “The X-Files” opened to viewers’ wanting-to-believe eyes, and the hit paranormal investigation drama’s creator, Chris Carter, doesn’t quite know what to make of that phenomenon. “It’s surreal,” he told a sold-out crowd Sunday at the Hero Complex Film Festival shortly after entering to a standing ovation. “It’s like an X-File…. Twenty years’ missing time.” Asked what he might do differently if he made the show now, he said, “It was of its time…. You probably could make th ... [Continua a leggere]

For a few of the writers gathered, this was the first time they had seen one another since Chris Carter's conspiracy-laden sci-fi drama -- which, at its height, was abducting nearly 20 million viewers a week -- finished its Emmy-winning run 11 years ago. Heck, the last time Vince Gilligan saw David Duchovny -- who also wrote and directed a handful of episodes in addition to starring as FBI agent Fox Mulder -- was at the wrap party. But the show has remained with them, as they've gone on to become some of the most respected showrunners in Hollywood. As Gilligan confides, "Everything we do on ... [Continua a leggere]

What compelled you to take the role of DSI Stella Gibson? She feels a little like an island but I find that interesting and it makes me want to know more, which is always a good thing where character and drama is concerned. Can you tell us a detail from the script where you felt a connection to Stella? It's hard to say. I am intrigued by her no-nonsense way of being. And that over time we get to see warmth and what she cares about. She is an enigma. What are the key factors behind Stella's professional decisions? I think she is professional and driven and has a mind for this kind of work and ... [Continua a leggere]

Program begins with a presentation on the art and design of “The X-Files.” Following, marking the 20th anniversary of the remarkable television series “The X-Files,” we screen two notable episodes. Season 7’s “Je Souhaite” (2000, 44 min.), whose title translates to “I Wish” and features a 500-year-old genie, was written and directed by Vince Gilligan. Season 6's “Triangle,” (1998, 44 min.), a mix of time travel and WWII intrigue set on a 1939 ocean liner, was written and directed by Chris Carter. Both episodes were designed by ... [Continua a leggere]

PERSPECTIVE I came to “The X-Files,” which turns 20 this year, after its first season, and for a time I had no idea what was happening. This was a good way to watch a show whose greatest strength was its air of dreamlike mystery. Folded across the turn of the 21st-century, it was a millennial show for a millennial time, reflecting a popular preoccupation with apocalypse and messiahs, puzzling phenomena and unexplained mysteries, psychic surgeons and alien autopsies, random mutations and science gone too far. It was also, looking back on old episodes, a time of pay phones, answeri ... [Continua a leggere]

"Welcome to Belfast," sighs the assistant chief constable, grimacing apologetically as he hands DS Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) a bulging case file. "I've done 28-day reviews before, you know," she tuts, flicking regally through a wadge of blotchy mortuary snaps and false-lead suspect profiles. "Not here you haven't," continues Constable Roflz, scowling significantly out of the window. "Things are different here." He's not wrong. Things are different here. Very different. So different, in fact, are things in The Fall(Monday, 9pm, BBC2) that it's probably easier to list the things that it' ... [Continua a leggere]

In March, IDW announced that The X-Files would be returning with a tenth season in comic book form. Almost immediately, fans began speculating about what stories this new season would include; when would the stories be set? Would the show’s incredibly complex mythology be continued? Would “baby” William be involved? I spoke to series writer Joe Harris and illustrator Michael Walsh about some of their plans for Season 10, and the difficulties of bringing such an iconic, cult show back for a new season after more than ten years off air. What made you both decide to become invo ... [Continua a leggere]

Chris Carter presents one of the darkest and most disturbing The X-Files episodes of the entire series catalog with his terrifying and relentless second season entry, “Irresistible.” Leaving behind the expected “fantasy” elements of the series such as aliens and monsters-of-the-week, the series creator, aided by director David Nutter, instead provides here a glimpse of the ultimate and most fearsome mystery: human evil. As a creative and intellectual series, The X-Files is a very Gothic enterprise. By and large, it concerns a voice of rationality and a voice of romanc ... [Continua a leggere]