The return of The X-Files

Conspiracy theorists and sci-fi fans are eagerly awaiting a new season of The X-Files. Filmed in Vancouver over summer 2015, it airs in six episodes from January 2016 – 14 years after the show was axed

Name:
Occupation: Writer,
producer, director.
Fox Mulder (52)
FBI Agent
David Duchovny

Name:
Occupation:
Actor:
Dana Scully (50)
FBI Agent
Gillian Anderson

Original show: Mulder and Scully pitted against shady Syndicate operating global conspiracy – called The Project – to help aliens colonise Earth 

Name:
Occupation:
Chris Carter (57)
Actor:

Commissioned in 1992 by 20th Century Fox to develop three new TV shows, he hit gold with his first attempt, The X-Files (1993). It ran for nine years and spawned two movies – The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

Average U.S. viewers per season (number of episodes)
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
(24)
(25)
(24)
(24)
(20)
(22)
(22)
(21)
(20)
7.1m
14.5m
15.4m
19.2m
19.8m
17.2m
14.2m
13.9m
9.1m

Jan 24, 2016: New six-part mini-series finds Mulder and Scully investigating more aliens

Fan favourites returning:
Walter Skinner (Assistant Director, FBI)
Cigarette Smoking Man (Syndicate operative)
Deep Throat (Syndicate informer)
The Lone Gunmen (conspiracy theorists, government watchdogs and computer hackers)

Sources: Fox, X-Files Wiki, Nielsen
Pictures: FOX, Wiki Commons