When
Duchovny visited Yahoo TV recently, he sat down to answer a few of our
readers’ Twitter questions. After a couple about his Aquarius
character Sam Hodiak — a detective trying to rescue a runaway teen from
cult leader, petty criminal, and wannabe rock star Charles Manson in
1967 — @margaritamj went there: “David, why only 6 episodes? #XFiles?”
“It’s
a good question. We certainly were not gonna ever do 22 again, but I
guess the question is, ‘Why no eight, or 10, or 12?’” he says. “It had
to do with scheduling and jobs that we were all gonna go to after. It
was very hard to find a window for the three of us — [creator Chris
Carter, co-star Gillian Anderson] and I — to get together to do any
episodes. So six was kind of a two-and-a-half/three-month commitment,
and we’re all able to do that. If people like those six, I imagine we
could come back and try to find another window for six, or eight, or
whatever again.”