News from June 2002
News from June 14, 2002
This is from Scifi.com
Executive producer Frank Spotnitz closes the final X-Files 
The elusive truth that Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have searched so long for remains just that�elusive. Even as The X-Files ends its impressive run on television, there are still truths to be spoken�and realities that cannot be changed.
Executive producer Frank Spotnitz has spent the past eight years with the show, the latter half as creator Chris Carter's right hand�carrying the day-to-day production duties and co-writing the mythology episodes. On the eve of the show's conclusion, Spotnitz spoke to us from his office on the Fox lot to discuss what went into crafting the series' finale, "The Truth"�and to reflect on the series' final days and what it is that made X-Files so special.
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This is from Scifiweekly.com
Firefly Bumps Dark Angel
Fox has defied expectations by canceling Dark Angel and putting Joss Whedon's new SF series Firefly in its 8 p.m. Friday timeslot, starting this fall, Variety reported. Observers had expected Firefly�a "space western" from the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer�to be delayed to midseason.
Firefly and Dark Angel had been competing for two drama slots on Fox's new Friday-night schedule, the trade paper reported. It's expected Fox will ask Whedon to come up with an hour-long kickoff to the series.
(Note from Rachael: I know this isn't X-Files news but I'm pretty excited for this new show, Firefly, so I wanted to advertize it)
Maher Previews Firefly
Firefly co-star Sean Maher provided a glimpse of things to come on this fall's new Fox series from Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "It's very hard to explain," the actor said in an interview.
Maher added, "There's no more Earth. We're all colonizing other planets. There are two major ruling planets and there are also little planets. My character, who is the doctor on [the small, highly mobile spaceship] Firefly, is from one of the bigger, more privileged planets, but his sister has been used for this government experiment. So he paid all of this money to get his sister out and now he's a fugitive running from the law. He gets on the Firefly and joins up with the crew of this ship." Maher's character is named Simon Tam.
Maher reported that he only found out at the last minute that the series, from Whedon's Mutant Enemy Productions and 20th Century Fox Television, would debut in the fall; Fox had been expected to renew Dark Angel and deploy Firefly as a midseason replacement. The actor also acknowledged he's unsure if the two-hour Firefly pilot Whedon directed will air as is, be shortened to an hour or be entirely re-shot.
"I actually got back from Italy two days ago," Maher said. "I was on vacation and then I got home and heard there was all this hoopla about the show. Then I found out yesterday that we were going in the fall. I've heard a bunch of different things [about how the show will start off], but I don't know what's confirmed and what's not." Fox has tentatively slated Firefly to air Friday nights at 8 p.m. ET.
X-Files Finale Ratings Up And Down
The Truth," the two-hour series finale of The X-Files, drew the show's largest audience since last season's closer, but it was nevertheless beaten by the Survivor: Marquesas season capper on CBS, according to The Associated Press. The wire service said The X-Files garnered a 7.4/12 rating, which paled against Survivor's 13.2/21 rating, as well as the 11.1/18 rating NBC posted with its special, The Cosby Show: A Look Back. The X-Files, however, did beat ABC's The Practice and all of UPN and the WB's programming. In the end, a total of 13 million viewers tuned in to see Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) reunite.
Spotnitz Says More X-Files To Tell
The X-Files executive producer Frank Spotnitz told SCI FI Wire that even though the series ended its run last night with "The Truth," all has not yet been answered. "There are things we had to take out," Spotnitz said in an interview. "We were like, 'We hate to take this out, because if we do this, then we will end the series not having explained this [whole] thing.' But you've got to do what you've got to do, [and] we had to make room for commercials," he explained. "I would expect that it will be in the DVD."
Spotnitz added, "Every year before, when we had written a finale, we thought it may be the end or it may not be the end [of the series]. And so you got shows like 'Requiem' and 'Essence' and 'Existence,' which could have served as finales, or could have served as entrees to the next year. But this episode is a finale, a culmination of nine years. We really wanted to come up with a story that would allow us to draw together into a narrative everything that's happened."
The X-Files Season Fice
DVD Collection 
Chronicling a pivotal season of important beginnings, endings and in-betweens for Mulder and Scully
The X-Files may have just concluded its run on television, but the series lives on in this new DVD set. The latest season to be released is season five�and what a season it was. Season fives's final episode�"The End"�is quite appropriately titled, considering that the fifth season marked the end of many things for the series.
For one, it was the last season to be shot in the moody, lushly textured 
environs of Vancouver; after that year, the show relocated to Los Angeles. For another, it was the last season the show maintained a semblance of innocence separate from the hype and off-screen politics surrounding it. It's actually arguable that season four really was the last season year that the show maintained its innocence, and season five was the transition year; but nevertheless, it was only after this year that the show became enveloped in the will-they/won't-they move controversy, and star David Duchovny's highly visible will-he/won't-he return shenanigans.
This season also marks several firsts�making it a monumental, pivotal season in X-Files history. It was the first time the series pre-planned its mythology�so it could catch up to the feature film that was already shot, and would be released that summer. (The feature is one reason that there are several episodes in which Mulder and Scully's involvement is limited.) It was also the first time the show irreversibly veered into the realm of pure science fiction, with the introduction of aliens and spaceships seen clearly onscreen.
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