{"id":5363,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/canadas-ctv-picks-up-the-x-files\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","slug":"canadas-ctv-picks-up-the-x-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/canadas-ctv-picks-up-the-x-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s CTV Picks Up The X-Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tTORONTO: CTV has secured the Canadian broadcasting rights for the highly anticipated <em>The X-Files<\/em> event series, which will launch with a special two-night premiere on January 24.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe six-episode drama was picked up in a deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution. It will debut across two nights on CTV and CTV Go, on January 24 at 10 p.m. and January 25 at 8 p.m. The series will then join CraveTV, where it will anchor its hugely popular Sci-Fi &amp; Fantasy Collection in spring 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHelmed by original creator\/executive producer Chris Carter, David Duchovny (<em>Californication<\/em>) and Gillian Anderson (<em>The Fall<\/em>) re-inhabit their iconic roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, 13 years after the original series completed its run.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;<em>The <\/em><em>X-Files&nbsp;<\/em>is an iconic brand that delivers on all fronts,&rdquo; said Mike Cosentino, the senior VP of programming at CTV Networks and CraveTV. &ldquo;This event series is a perfect fit for CTV and we look forward to bringing a new chapter to Canadians from coast-to-coast-to-coast. And as an event series, it&rsquo;s a perfect anchor to our Sci-Fi and Fantasy Collection on CraveTV.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\t&ldquo;I think of it as a 13-year commercial break,&rdquo; said Carter. &ldquo;The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO: CTV has secured the Canadian broadcasting rights for the highly anticipated The X-Files event series, which will launch with a special two-night premiere on January 24. The six-episode drama was picked up in a deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution. 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