X-Files Season 11 Confirmed! 10 More Episodes Coming

The truth is out there for at least 10 more episodes. The X-Files Season 11 will arrive some time later this year, or in early 2018, Fox confirmed. The fact that they're offering fans a larger episode count than we got with Season 10, which only had six episodes, is a good sign.

“Iconic characters, rich storytelling, bold creators — these are the hallmarks of great TV shows. And they are some of the reasons why The X-Files has had such a profound impact on millions of fans worldwide,” David Madden, president, Fox Broadcasting Company, said in a statement. “Chris’ creativity, along with the brilliant work of David and Gillian, continue to propel this pop culture phenomenon, and we can’t wait to see what fresh mysteries Mulder and Scully uncover in this next chapter of The X-Files.”

Even before The X-Files returned in 2016 to strong ratings, the narrative over at Fox seemed to be that Carter, Anderson, and David Duchovny had a greenlight for more episodes or another “event series” if they wanted it.

When the reception to the six-episode run was lukewarm, with nearly universal distaste for the mythology episodes and universal praise for Darin Morgan’s Were-monster of the week, Fox insisted that when the scheduling was right, they’d pick up where the cliffhanger left X-Files fans wondering if the truth was ever really out there to begin with.

The issue, of course, is finding time to fit eight episodes into Anderson and Duchovny busy work and travel schedules.

“We would have liked to have done more [episodes] in the first place,” Fox TV CEO Dana Walden told TV Line last August. “It was really the limitations of David and Gillian and Chris’ schedules. Gillian lives in the UK, David lives in New York and California, and we do the show in Vancouver. Chris lives up north. So it was just trying to coordinate a time where they all carve out a period to be in Vancouver.”

X-Files Season 11 Release Date

Fox is being vague about this, just saying it will air during the 2017-2018 season. It seems a little late in the game for them to ready the series for a September launch, so if we're betting money on this, expect it to air in the winter/spring "event series" slot that Fox put it in back in 2016.

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