Fox has found its latest ratings remedy, and it's a show that it canceled nearly 14 years ago. Two episodes in, the X-Files is already packing a serious ratings punch.
The network's two-night premiere of the X-Files reboot debuted to a rating of 13.5 million viewers on Sunday night and a 9.7 million viewers on Monday night, Entertainment Weekly reports. While the Sunday ratings may have suffered from inflation due to a lag caused by the NFC championship game, the Monday ratings marked the second part of the premiere as the highest-rated program of that night.
Series creator Chris Carter recently revealed that before being approached to reboot the series, he had already written the script for a third X-Files movie.
"But there was talk of doing a third movie, and it was casual talk," the 58-year-old screenwriter-producer told Den of Geek. "So I actually wrote a third movie just because I was interested in where that might go. When this television idea came out of the blue for me and was really a phone call, surprising phone call."