Joel McHale is joining the hunt for the truth out there. The Community leading man is the first actor signed for a guest starring stint on Fox’s new six-episode installment of The X-Files,
which reunites original stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
McHale will play Tad O’Malley, the anchor of a popular conservative
Internet news network who becomes an unlikely ally for Fox Mulder
(Duchovny).
While McHale is probably best known for his comedic turns on Community, which just wrapped its sixth season on Yahoo, as host of E!’s The Soup and as a touring standup, he has done dramatic episodic work early in his career and had an arc on FX’s Sons Of Anarchy. Rumors says he was interested in another drama stint, and Carter was a fan of his, leading to the guest casting.