X-cellent

Very exciting news...we're getting some new X-Files episodes very soon...

Mulder and Scully are back! Thirteen years after The X-Files ended its nine-season run on Fox and months after talks about a new TV installment started, the sci-fi hit is returning as a six-episode event series from series creator/executive producer Chris Carter, with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson set to reprise their roles as FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Can't. Wait!

X-Files preview

With the X-Files reboot premiere just a few weeks away, FOX has released a cool preview/behind-the-scenes video about the upcoming new episodes...



I'm really looking forward to this!

The series begins again on January 24th.

X-iting!

FOX ordered a new season of 10 more episodes of the The X-Files to air later this year or early next year.

Squeeee!!

Ex-Files

Gillian Anderson (X-Files Agent Scully) opened up to OUT Magazine recently about some of her younger years and past relationships...

In high school, she was voted “Most Bizarre” and “Most Likely to Be Arrested.” Both descriptions, says Anderson, contained a kernel of truth, “based on how I chose to look, dress, behave, you know—the relationships I was in at the time were freaking people out.” Invited to elaborate, she begins to list them: “I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school, and then I was in a relationship with a punk rock drug addict who...”

Wait, a lesbian relationship? “Yeah, yeah, well it’s... You know, I’m old enough that I can talk about that,” she says.



Much of this has been written before -- how she dyed her hair purple, how she glued the school gates shut on graduation night, the drugs and alcohol -- but her lesbian romance is something new. Understandably, she is wary of making a big deal of it, precisely because it is a big deal for so many people. “If I had thought I was 100% gay, would it have been a different experience for me?” she wonders. “Would it have been a bigger deal if shame had been attached to it and all those things that become huge life-altering issues for youngsters in that situation? It’s possible that my attitude around it came, on some level, from knowing that I still liked boys.”

I think her loyal fan based just gave a collective "Squeee!"

You can read the full article here.

He's a very special child

The first trailer for the eleventh season of The X-Files was released this week...



It's looking pretty good. Hopefully they'll focus more on the overall story than just one-off creature-of-the-week episodes like they did last season.

But, I'm definitely still in!

The new episodes air sometime in early 2018.

I'm here

A new X-Files trailer was released today...



It's starting to come together nicely. Let's hope it holds up to the previous series, without trying too hard to be everything to everybody.

Just be good.

We'll find out more when the six episode event premieres on January 24th.

Still out there

EW released a cool poster for the new X-Files episodes coming out in January.

Can't. Wait.

And...connect

Jimmy Kimmel shared a special clip of his part in the upcoming X-Files series...



Scully's old cell phone and then the HILARIOUS connection to the "Internets"...

Brilliant!

Fox Freakin' Mulder

A new behind-the-scenes video for the upcoming 11th season of The X-Files was released today...



I'm looking forward to seeing how they pull this new season together.

The series begins airing on January 3rd.

The next day...you're out!

Well, the time finally came to make some DVR decisions and a few shows have been lopped off.



Grey's Anatomy

The past year has really been uneven on this show and, with fewer and fewer sympathetic characters to root for....my dedication has been teetering. Then, my two least favorite characters finally did it in for me.

Last week's episode focused on Derek (he of the big hair) getting a magazine cover for a medical study that he and Meredeth (she of the show title) worked on for several episodes last season. Of course, Derek just gloated to Meredeth about how cool the article/cover was and never once suggested she should have been included or mentioned (which she wasn't). When Meredeth finally talked to him about it (in the annoying passive aggressive way all of the characters do), Derek, rather than realize he'd been insensitive and a jerk, decided to call her a baby for wanting any credit because HE is a doctor and she's just an intern.

If these characters had an ounce or reality to them, she would have shoved that magazine up his pooper and dumped him forever. But, of course, she didn't. She just moped, he got some advice from another character, then got her a stupid momento, thanked her casually, smiled and went on his McIdiot way..

As did this show...right off my DVR.



Fringe

Since I enjoy JJ Abrams' "Lost" and know he directed the upcoming "Star Trek" movie, I decided to start watching his new "X-Files"-esque show (which I also enjoyed when it was on) and see how it was. I really liked the way "Fringe" was shot and their use of "where are we now?" graphics that were cleverly floating on screen.

However, what I quickly started to notice and, ultimately what did it in for me, was the weekly gore-factor of everyday people being subjected to horrific experiments by a mysterious organization. First episode, a plane load of people that had their skin melted off. Another week, probes shoved up people's noses into their brains to read their memories.

Then....last week.

A restaurant full of people with bleeding eyes and, then, someone's head exploding against the glass door....followed by lots of closeups of dissecting the, now headless, neck and torso.

The real world is creepy enough (just read or watch the news) and full of wackos trying to figure out how to hurt others...no need to make time to watch these fictional people abuse people like me in horrific ways each week in HD.

I'll just wait for "Lost" to come back and "Star Trek" to come out in May. As for this show...

All done. Bye, bye.



Samantha Who?

Another show that I wanted to like (cause I love Jean Smart) and, although I didn't love it...stuck with it to see if it would get better.

Unfortunately, it just hasn't. The writing is awful, the characters aren't that funny and the situations are always predictable and are quickly resolved for an unsatisfying ending.

Samantha, who deleted us?

I did.



Kath and Kim

I love, love, LOVE Molly Shannon.

I do, however, feel the complete opposite about her new show after three viewings.

I can kick and stretch and KICK....this show off of my DVR.

Superstar!

OMG

Ever wondered how many times Gillian Anderson said "Oh My God" during the run of The X-Files?



Now you know.

You're welcome.

Resistance is futile

Towleroad ran this story (from an Australian newspaper) about an Apollo 14 astronaut that claims that we really have had encounters with aliens...



FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.

And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'

He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head. Chillingly, he claimed our technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned "we would be been gone by now".

If the marketing and PR agents for the new "X Files" movie had any brains, they'd have leaked this story everywhere to help promote the film (opening today).

Will we ever find out the truth? Who knows. There have certainly been enough people over the decades claiming to have knowledge or first-hand accounts, but the amount of proof is always so vague or explained away by a local government agency.

If it is true, I'm just glad the little buggers weren't hostile or, he's right.....we'd be toast by now.

What do you believe?

Here are a couple of my favorite fake UFO clips (although I've never seen them this realistic in any movie):





And then this person was able to switch-up the last video perfectly...



The kids and their crazy technology.

If aliens ever do land here, we'll never believe the footage because it will likely look less realistic than things we've already seen.