'The X-Files' to Avoid Complex Mythology in Next Season
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The 10-episode new season of the sci-fi series will be largely standalone episodes, says Fox entertainment chairman David Madden.

AceShowbiz - Responding to reviews by critics who slammed the mythology episodes of last year's revival, "The X-Files" will ditch its wildly complex mythology episodes next season. Fox entertainment chairman David Madden promised this when speaking at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.

"We're really proud of last season," Madden said. "We had the responsibility to explain to the audience what had happened in the intervening seven or eight years. We're free from that responsibility this time and can just plunge in and tell the stories. We're having a lot of fun doing it. Eight of the episodes will be stand-alone stories so they will be classic 'Mulder and Scully plunging into new adventures.' "

Addressing the last season finale's cliffhanger, Madden said, "We start the season right up from where the season finale left off with that big helicopter and takes you right from there." He went on sharing about season 11's storyline, "You'll be launched into a very urgent adventure that has a lot to do with William - Mulder and Scully's kid."

"So the search for William will be a significant thread through the show. You will see the Cigarette Smoking Man [William B. Davis]. You may see The Lone Gunmen somewhere along the line. There will be other characters from the previous mythology that will be reprised," he teased.

Walden additionally said that series creator Chris Carter had hired two female directors and two female writers for the upcoming season, after slammed for its all-male writers room. Per the show's studio 20th Century Fox Television, there are actually three female writers. They are Karen Nielson who will write one episode, and Kristen Cloke and Shannon Hamblin who will be writing another episode based on a story by Glen Morgan.

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