The spinoffs are out there.
An animated comedy spinoff of The X-Files is in the works at Fox, and original series creator Chris Carter is set to produce, TVLine and Variety reported on Friday.
The show will reportedly be called The X-Files: Albuquerque, but no, don't expect David Duchovny or Gillian Anderson to be involved. The report describes it as revolving around the "X-Files' B-team," agents who investigate the cases "too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey" for Mulder and Scully. Because obviously, Mulder and Scully would never run into anything wacky or ridiculous, right?
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Animated comedy spinoffs of drama shows are apparently becoming all the rage, with this coming after CBS All Access' Star Trek: Lower Decks. For those fans crossing their fingers that this one will end up being good, we want to believe, too.
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