X-Files Reboot to Launch With Special Two-Part Opener

X-Files Reboot to Launch With Special Two-Part Opener
David Duchovny (L) as Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in the "Founder's Mutation" season premiere, part two, episode of "The X-Files," airing Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Ed Araquel/FOX via AP
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LOS ANGELES—“The X-Files” creator Chris Carter is pleased to update the original template with his 21st-century unease. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are glad to be playing opposite each other again as Scully and Mulder.

And admirers likely will do a happy dance to the Fox TV drama’s eerie theme music as it returns with a six-episode limited run.

The two-part opener is scheduled to air at 10 p.m. EST Sunday, immediately after the end of the NFL’s NFC championship game on Fox, and at 8 p.m. EST Monday. Subsequent episodes also air at 8 p.m. Monday EST.

Will the reboot retain the dark magic of the original TV series, which in its 1993-2002 lifespan offered a wildly entertaining blend of government conspiracies, otherworldly suspense and black comedy that was placed in the hands of two unknown but charismatic actors?

Creator and executive producer Carter offers assurances, but with the caveat that he insisted on more than an exercise in nostalgia for the franchise that included two big-screen movies.

Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in "The X-Files," which debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. (Ed Araquel/FOX via AP)
Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in "The X-Files," which debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. Ed Araquel/FOX via AP