You don't generally see a network wanting a show back after so many years but Fox would love to see a
X-Files revival with Chris Carter at the helm and starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny . The show has been off the air for over 12 years and the show's stars are busy on other projects but perhaps something will happen. The second movie was on 7 years ago but there has been no movement on that end either.
I was a fan of
The X-Files for years but in my opinion the show went downhill quickly and not just because the main stars left the show. The series ran out of ideas and revisited the conspiracy ideal too many times. I stopped caring about every aspect of the series. If the show came back I would love to see it return to the case of the week with perhaps different conspiracies rather than the alien abduction, government, black goo, clones, etc story arc.
One would have to wonder in what format the show would come back and a limited episode run would seem most likely rather than a full season. It is also possible that Duchovny and Anderson would be there to introduce two new leads who would then head up a new series. That would be great except it sort of had been done before and didn't work that well.
The X-Files Returns
– Lots of shows are coming back lately. Heroes
and Twin Peaks are headlining the return but they all pale in
comparison to The X-Files. Twin Peaks might have been
groundbreaking and Heroes had a lot of potential but The
X-Files was a huge phenomena for years and has set the stage for
many shows today like Supernatural and Grimm. Original
series creator Chris Carter is back to work on six episodes which
will begin production this summer. David Duchovny and Gillian
Anderson will reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully. No word on
when the series will air on Fox or if the show is meant to re-launch
a new full series. 