'The X-Files' Returning for 6-Episode Run

Good news, X-Files fans. The iconic series is returning for a six-episode run with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in tow.

Fox announced today that the series will begin filming this summer, but an exact air date has not been revealed, nor have any details about the plot. Creator and executive producer Chris Carter will also return, more than a decade after the cult hit went off the air.

"I think of it as a 13-year commercial break," 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 X-Files debuted in 1993 and was on the air for nine seasons. It followed FBI special agents Scully (Anderson) and Mulder (Duchovny) as they investigated unexplained phenomenon. When we left them in 2002, Mulder had returned (after a season eight departure), but even Carter admitted to Entertainment Weekly last year that "we lost our steam" toward the end.

The characters also appeared on the big screen in 1998's Fight the Future and 2008's I Want to Believe.

Can the duo recapture the magic this time around? A number of TV shows have gotten a second chance in recent years, from Arrested Development to The Killing, but unlike those shows, which returned from the dead via Netflix, The X-Files will take a more traditional route and air on Fox.

:story: PC Magazine