The X-Files: Albuquerque — an animated comedy spinoff of the live-action classic — is not moving forward at Fox, TVLine has learned. The network, which declined to comment for this story, first announced the project’s development back in August 2020.
News of the ‘toon offshoot’s demise comes amid buzz that a new iteration of The X-Files, shepherded by Black Panther‘s Ryan Coogler, is in the works. TVLine has learned, however, that Coogler’s X-Files would not be for Fox.
The X-Files: Albuquerque, of which original series creator Chris Carter was attached to exec-produce (but not write/showrunner), was not slated to revolve around David Duchovny‘s Mulder and Gillian Anderson‘s Scully. Rather, the ill-fated series would have centered on an office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous, or downright dopey for Mulder and Scully to bother with.
Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko (Netflix’s Paradise PD) wrote the pilot.