Fox is hoping to fix their ratings struggles by going back in time. They don’t have a flux capacitor, but they do have a library of past hit shows they can revive.
During today’s Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, new Fox chiefs Dana Walden and Gary Newman said that they are looking to bring back The X-Files and they really want both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back.
“It’s true that we’ve had some conversations on X-Files,” Newman said, reports Entertainment Weekly. “We’re hopeful of being able to bring that back at some point.”
Since X-Files creator Chris Carter’s latest project, The After, isn’t going forward at Amazon, he could have the time to return to the hit series that launched in 1993. However, Duchovny is working on Aquarius and Anderson has a part on Hannibal, both for NBC. (Anderson also stars in The Fall for Netflix and The BBC.)
Newman also said that they want to reboot Prison Break, but that could be a problem. “It’s probably the perfect event series,” he said. “If our old partners in that show are interested, that would be great.”
They didn’t go into further details about that idea. They might need a whole new cast though, since both Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller have recurring parts on The CW’s The Flash.
The third old Fox property Newman and Walden suggested could return is 24. According to Variety, they said that Howard Gordon, Evan Katz and Manny Coto pitched a 12-episode series that didn’t feature Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer character. That series could begin in 2016.
Thankfully for Fox, X-Files, Prison Break and 24 are all 20th Century Fox TV productions.