Joel McHale, who played – and may play again – Winger on “Community,” will on next year’s 6-hour “X-Files” miniseries portray a (Glenn Beck-ish?) conservative Internet news network anchor who helps Spooky Mulder with a mystery.
This is not the first appearance in an hourlong for the “Soup” host, who also popped up in episodes of “The Fugitive,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “CSI Miami” and “Pushing Daisies” over the years. In 2012 he appeared in three episodes of “Sons of Anarchy.”
Original “X-Files” mastermind Chris Carter is supervising the 2016 revival.
I think the last time we saw Mulder and Dana Scully, in the 2008 “X-Files” movie, the duo was depicted no longer in the FBI’s employ. Mitch Pileggi reprises his Walter Skinner role in the miniseries, and I confess I’m curious to know if Mulder and Scully rejoined the agency and, if so, what managed to lure both of them back at the same time.
Also back for the miniseries is William B. Davis, who played the enigmatic Cancer Man in the original 1993-2002 Fox series. This despite the fact that Knowle Rohrer blew Cancer Man to bits with a rocket in the 2002 series finale. (Moments before Cancer Man’s death, he revealed to Mulder and Scully that an extraterrestrial invasion was scheduled to commence in 2012. So that might be a plot point?)
Find Deadline’s story on the matter here.
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