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Wednesday, January 26th, 1999 When Mimi Rogers first appeared as Mulder's ex-flame on The X-Files last season, many a fan suspected something big was in the works. Well, hold on to your conspiracy theories, because Rogers' mysterious Agent Diana Fowley is coming back. The actress tells Dish she'll return for the show's upcoming two-parter, which kicks off Sun., Feb. 7 on Fox (9 pm/ET). What can she reveal about the episodes? "Not much," she says with a laugh. "I still don't know if I'm a good guy or a bad guy." In addition to being a big fan of the show, Rogers is a pal of a certain X-Files VIP. "David Duchovny and I have been friends for a long time, since we did The Rapture together," she says. "He had always said, 'If something interesting came up, would you do it?' And I said, 'Sure.' So he and Chris [Carter, the show's creator] called and they optioned me for this character." It seems we won't see the last of Fowley in February: "I'm sure I'll probably do another few episodes by the end of the season," says Rogers. Watch your back, Scully. — Susan Campbell Beachy |
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Wednesday, January 20th, 1999 Don't forget about the Golden globe awards this January 24, X-Files are up for 3 awards. So say those prayers. |
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Wednesday, January 20th, 1999 Articles from February Two Parter X-FILES REVEAL HIDDEN MYSTERIES The Ottawa Sun, January 19, 1999 (p36) Claire Bickley If you buy this, I've got some primo alien DNA I can sell you. Fox is promising that The X-Files' driving mystery is about to be solved. The network is hyping a two-part episode, airing Feb. 7 and 14, said to end the alien conspiracy that has been the series' core storyline for its six years. Not surprisingly, X-Files' creator Chris Carter is promising a little less. "There are going to be a lot of answers. A lot is going to be explained," he says. But. You knew there'd be a but, right? "Every time we give you an answer, we also ask a question," Carter says. "Every answer has its own set of questions that come along with it." Agent Krycek (Nicholas Lea), the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis) and his son, Agent Jeffrey Spender (Chris Owens), feature prominently in the two-parter. Rumour is, somebody won't survive to make future appearances. "Stay tuned -- and watch very carefully," the enigmatic Mr. Carter says to that. To the question of how long The X-Files will continue, he says the series will probably finish in May 2000, then live on as a movie franchise. If that's so, fans may have to live off reruns for a long while. Carter has decided not to shoot the second X-Files film this summer, instead waiting until 2001 or even 2002 to release another big-screen installment. Carter Talks More 'X-Files' Cinescape.com The Toronto Sun and Mr. Showbiz have more hype out of the mouth of Chris Carter regarding the upcoming "Two Fathers/One Son" X-Files two-parter. In an article in the Toronto Sun, Carter reveals, "There are going to be a lot of answers. A lot is going to be explained." Carter quickly counters that adding, "Every time we give you an answer, we also ask a question. Every answer has its own set of questions that come along with it." The Mr. Showbiz site also quotes Carter saying, "We're making choices, knowing that the show is moving toward a kind of completion" which will, in particular, have the Cigarette Man "all but stripped of mystery." Lest your worried what this might do to the show, Carter explains, "I'm not looking to spend all my capital. I want to make sure we that we continue to have good stories to tell." |
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Wednesday, January 20th, 1999 The truth may be out there, but so is the end of the line. X-Files creator and exec producer Chris Carter confirms that the paranormal series will probably end after next season. "Right now, everyone is prepped for the seventh year to be the end of The X-Files," he told reporters at the winter press tour in Pasadena. "I think we're all shooting for that…but things have a way of changing with attitudes and contracts." Carter could be referring to the fact that he and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are signed only through the end of next season. "An eighth season could happen, but I'm not anticipating it," Carter said. "We're assuming everyone knows the seventh season will be the end, but you never say never. A lot will be dictated by David and Gillian's enthusiasm." Enthusiasm coupled with a tempting paycheck, we're guessing. With Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt taking home $1 million per episode for 30 minutes of the near-dead Mad About You, could Duchovny and Anderson, who make about a 10th of that for the top-rated, hour-long Files (they received $4 million apiece for the movie), be lured back for another season with the promise of big bucks? And could they be tempted by the series' newfound vitality this season? As everyone knows, The X-Files, amid pressure from the stars, moved from rainy Vancouver to sunny Los Angeles. To go along with the brighter locale, the story lines this season have been refreshingly engaging, providing a mix of humor, pathos, and paranoia. Whatever happens, the The X-Files will not close. "I hope the series will become a big-screen movie series," says Carter, who is currently working on a sci-fi pilot called Harsh Realm, based on the comic book series. Carter is anticipating the next big-screen Files to hit theaters in 2001 or 2002. And as we told you a few weeks ago, the alien conspiracy-black oil story line will finally wrap this season. The beginning of the end starts Feb. 7, when the first half of a two-part episode airs. According to Carter, the two-parter is the first step to concluding the series next season. Loyal viewers will finally learn who Mulder's father really is, and what happened to his sister, Samantha. Also expect Cancer Man to be "all but stripped of mystery," says Carter. "We're making choices, knowing that the show is moving toward a kind of completion," Carter says. But don't expect him to solve all the mysteries of the X-Files. "I'm not looking to spend all my capital," he insists. "I want to make sure we that we continue to have good stories to tell." |
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Wednesday, January 20th, 1999 February 1st is the 1st Annual TV Guide Awards, airing on FOX at 8:00pm EST. TV Guide let regular viewers like us pick the final 4 nominees via a ballot in TV Guide. They recieved over 1 million ballots, making this the largest voted awards show in history. The X-Files is up for 8 awards, the most for any show! They are nominated in: 1. Fav. Actor in a Drama (DD), 2. Fav. Actress in a Drama (GA), 3. Fav. Drama Series, 4. Best Sci-Fi Show, 5. Scariest Villian (William B. Davis, or Cigarette Smoking Man!!), 6. Sexiest Male (DD), 7. Sexiest Female (GA), and 8. Best Dressed Male (DD). In each category there are a total of 4 nominees. The show is scheduled to last 2 hours, but may go overtime. |
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Wednesday, January 20th, 1999 McFarlane Toys will be releasinga new series of X-Files sets. There is talk that the figuares wil be: 1. Cigarette Smoking Man, 2. Assistant Director Walter Skinner, 3. Mutato, 4. El Chupacabra, 5. Flukeman, 6. Conundrum. They will probably be released in May/June 1999. Each case of toys will contain 12 figures. |
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Saturday, January 16th, 1999 From Cinescape Online Although not yet official it looks like Nick Lea (of X-Files fame) wears the crown as lead character on "Harsh Realm" Chris Carter's new sci fi adventure series. He's not the only one to cross over from Carter's flag ship franchise to his shiny new show. To populate his Harsh Realm cast Chris Carter has been pluming the depths of his X Files franchise. Chris Owens (known to X-Fans as Agent Spender) has been added to the cast of Harsh Realm or so it would seem. There's been no official word yet but this is what I hear. Although some early rumors have placed Owens as the co- star to Nick Lea in Harsh Realm this isn't in fact the case. Speculation on that came about because of suspicions that Owen's Spender character dies in an upcoming episode of The X-Files and that this was being done to free the actor up for Harsh Realm duty. Not long ago in an issue of TV Guide, Owens said that Chris Carter called him up to let him know of a specific script before he received it. This is exactly what happens each time an actor's character on The X-Files is about to be slaughtered. Owen's Spender character is appears to die in the upcoming "Two Fathers/One Son" storyline that has been penned for The X-Files. Owens is signed for eleven X- Files episodes. Unless he's filling up those installments as the young cigarette Smoking Man (his other recurring role on that series) it's unlikely that his "death" is legit. In fact his character is shot off camera by The Cigarette Smoking Man making it even more dubious. All this is not to say that Owens isn't taking up a place on Harsh Realm. I hear that he will but that the role will not be a co- starring role nor will it be as a cast regular. Owens will turn up as a recurring character much after the fashion of Lea's Krycek on The X-Files. Lea and Owens aren't the only X-Files alumni to be given a harsh treatment. Actor Terry O'Quinn who went up against agents Mulder and Scully as bomb expert Darius Michaud in the X-Files feature film (and is currently seen as Peter Watts on Carter's "Millennium") has been included in the Harsh Realm line up. It's not currently known what his role will be. Word is that O'Quinn will be a series regular. This wouldn't conflict with any of how work on Millennium as I've come to understand that the deformed twin of The X-Files is to face it's own Armageddon at the end of this season. |
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Tuesday, January 12th, 1999 There is news that Frank Spotnitz will be leaving the show after this season. I don't know why, bu he's saying goodbye. If you have any news about this email in. |
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Tuesday, January 12th, 1999 I was just now told that Gillian wasen't on the view the 11th, but that she will apear on the show the 18th. Also she will be on the "Daily show" on the 12th. |
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Saturday, January 9th, 1999 Ok people, Gillian Anderson will be on the "Today Show" and "The View" on Monday January 11th . So get those vcrs rolling. Because GA is gonna be on like 4 shows that day. Keep going down for the other listings. |
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Friday, January 8th, 1999 Just a brief discription of Gillian Anderson's newest movie, "Playing by Hearts." It has been in theatres since December 25th. Gillian Anderson is Meredith, a staunchly single, passionately serious theatre director whose determination to avoid romantic complications is challenged by the funny and tenacious Trent, played by Jon Stewart. It takes a persistent suitor not to be discouraged by Meredith's relentless expectations of doom - not to mention her 175 lb. pet Mastiff. |
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Friday, January 8th, 1999 The X-Files movie has sold 10,000,000 copies over seas. |
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Friday, January 8th, 1999
It was a good interview, and something you x-philers shouldn't of missed. But you can catch some pictures of the show here sometime this week. And also some audio clips. |
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Thursday, January 7th, 1999
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Thursday, January 7th, 1999 Look out for Gillian Anderson on the cover of Redbook for February. So start looking for it. I doubt you'd wanna miss it if you are a collector. |
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Thursday, January 7th, 1999 From: Cinescape Online Lea To Enter "Harsh Realm"? Actor Nicholas Lea's character Alex Krycek has been through hell on "The X-Files" losing his position in the great conspiracy, being possessed by that alien oil as well as losing an arm. Now, comes word that the actor may make the jump to the heroic side, courtesy of Chris Carter's in-development series for Fox, Harsh Realm. James Hudnall, creator of the Harsh Realm comic that the eventual TV series is based on, sent in a note to the Insider informing yours truly that he"s been hearing unconfirmed rumors from a very good source that reveal Nicholas Lea has been cast as the series lead. If this ends up being true, Lea may play the part of Dexter Green, "a private eye specializing in finding missing persons [in a] far future when pocket universes are created by computers, providing real worlds for people to experience." Hudnall's Harsh Realm comic series is set in a computer world based on role-playing games which, I presume, may only be the tip of the iceberg that Carter would explore in the premise. >> |
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Wednesday, January 6th, 1999 From: New York Times By: Don Kaplan What fans of the "X-Files" call the hit show's "mythology" - the murky and confusing network of characters like "Smoking Man" and long-running questions like what happened to Agent Mulder's sister - is about to be changed drastically. Sources close to the show say the revision of the "X-Files" deliberately confusing plot line will begin in February with a two-part episode that will tie up loose ends in the show about aliens and government conspiracies. At least two of the show's key players will be killed off, according to the source. "A lot of things will be resolved in this two-parter," the source said. "Way more than the movie promised." Last summer's "X-Files" movie left many fans disappointed because it failed to answer questions about the main characters that have hooked viewers and kept them coming back week after week. Chris Carter, the show's creator, declined to comment on the upcoming changes. The premise of the "X-Files" has been that the show's heroes, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, are against a massive conspiracy to cover up the existence of a hostile alien race that wants to colonize Earth and use humans as living incubators for their young. Some of the highest ranking members of the U.S. government are involved in the cover-up. For several seasons Mulder, a believer in the paranormal, and Scully - a scientist who was originally partnered with Mulder to debunk his work - have pursued various leads to the aliens and their relationship to a close-knit group of powerful government officials who are called The Syndicate. After six seasons of attempting to apply logic and reason to the unexplained, Scully will finally become a "true believer," the source said. "She finally comes to believe everything that Mulder has believed in all along." Other expected revelations include details about a new, rebel alien group called the "faceless alien race." "They literally have no faces," says the source. "And they seem to be helping us, but that just may be because they are trying to thwart the other aliens." Other long awaited revelations include: * The truth about what really happened to Mulder's sister. (From past episodes, we know that Mulder's sister was abducted by aliens when she was a kid and that she has been missing ever since.) * Revealing who the rogue Special Agent Alex Krycek really works for. (Some fans think that Krycek is a Russian agent. He has turned up in several episodes to throw a monkey wrench into more than one of Scully and Mulder's investigations.) |
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Wednesday, January 6th, 1999 From: Newsgroup The New York Daily News quoted Chris Carter as saying "...the sequel to The X-Files: Fight the Future will start filming in the summer of 1999 for a summer 2000 release." Both Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny have signed on to do the movie and have renewed their contracts until the end of the 7th season. |
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Wednesday, January 6th, 1999 From: TV Guide Big Spender" by: Ty Holland *What a character-actually Chris Owens has played four of them!* In the peculiar, paranormal universe of "The X-files", Chris Owens has fit in nicely. Having appeared on the Fox series in 1996 as a younger version of the shadowy Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM, he also played two other characters on the show. But it is as FBI Agent Jeffrey Spender that the Toronto native has found a recurring role. Introduced last season as the son of CSM, Spender has been more foil than friend to Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson). However, Owens suggests that a two-episode story airing in February will alter that perception. "I'm going back and forth between trying to impress and understand my father [and] rejecting him. Now that I'm learning more about the kind of work [Mulder and Scully] do, my eyes are opening." With the show now filming in Los Angeles, Owens, 37, has had to adjust to the move away from Vancouver-and from his girlfriend of more than five years, law student Tara Parker. "We just try to keep the daily communication going." Owens had some interesting communication with series creator Chris Carter before he received his script for the second episode of the two-parter. "Chris told me somehting fairly drastic will happen, adding, 'Just trust me.' I told him I trust him implicitly. He chuckled and said, 'Trust no one.' When I hung up the phone, I swear, within four beats, this script arrived. I don't just play on 'The X-files', I live 'X-files'." |
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Wednesday, January 6th, 1999 From: Newsgroup her character, Sheila, kisses Mulder in The Rain King, and in context, it's very, very funny..Nobody said that Mulder kissed her. She kisses Mulder. And, as I said before, context is important. I don't know if I would describe it as a heartwarming look at the M/Sc relationship, but in Darin Morgan-style, it gently pokes fun at the relationship, but in a very affectionate manner." from: News Group "Looks like even though they have filmed this episode they are going to shuffle the order and make "Rain King" the Valentine's Day episode. At least that is what her site infers. So, it must indeed be "heart warming". |
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Wednesday, January 6th, 1999 Ok Get those VCR's ready because GA will be on the Rosie O'Donnell & David Letterman on Monday January 11th. For all you Mitch Pileggi fans out there he will be on the Donny and Marie show on January 7th. So make sure to write those days down. We will have pictures up of those shows also, so look out for that. |
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Wednesday, January 6th, 1999 For all of you DVD people, the date for the X-Files movie has been pushed up to Feduary 9th ( I believe ), so make sure ya wait for it. Cause it's coming out! |