'The X-Files: Albuquerque' Animated Comedy Spinoff In Development At Fox

[KepperC]

The two-dimensional truth is out there. An animated comedy spinoff of The X-Files is in development at Fox, with series creator Chris Carter attached to exec-produce (but not write/showrun), TVLine has learned exclusively. Titled The X-Files: Albuquerque, the ‘toon offshoot — which has received a script and presentation commitment from Fox — will not revolve around David Duchovny‘s Mulder and Gillian Anderson‘s Scully. Rather, the potential series will center an office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey for Mulder and Scully to bother with. They’re essentially the X-Files’ B-team.

https://tvline.com/2020/08/28/x-files-albuquerque-animated-spinoff-series-fox/

 

[Turtletrekker]

It's like Chris Carter watched Lower Decks and said, "hey, I can do that too..."

 

[Caretaker]

This actually make more sense than Lower Decks. A few things the show needs:
1. No mythology episodes (Carl Gerhard Busch Spender, alien conspiracy episodes). Take place after “My Struggle IV”. Stick to stand alone episodes as it seems they are most popular.
2. Bring Darin Morgan aboard, if you are doing comedy.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

If it's in Albuquerque, then it needs to have this guy in it:

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[JD]

Wow, this is not something I expected at all. They did do some great X-Files comedy episodes over the years, but it's not a show that immediately comes to mind when I think of animated comedies.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I wonder how may left turns will be taken?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I wonder how may left turns will be taken?

As many as it takes to find the meth.

 

[dupersuper]

They did do some great X-Files comedy episodes over the years

Yeah, the comedic X-Files episodes are awesome.

 

[John Clark]

I'm interested. This could be a great deal of fun as some of the comedy episodes were excellent.

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, it's hard not to look at this news as a reaction to Lower Decks and a desire to do something similar with another franchise. Still, could be a fun show. X-Files certainly did some excellent comedic episodes in its day. I'll say I'm guardedly optimistic about this.