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If you weren’t excited to watch the upcoming revival of The X-Files, now you have a new reason. According to THRCommunity star Joel McHale will be joining the cast of the six episode limited run series. McHale will play Tad O’Malley, the anchor of a conservative Internet news network. He’ll be an ally for Fox Mulder (David Duchovny).

The show will feature returning stars Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, and likely William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man. The miniseries will premiere January 25 on FOX.

 

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Jenna Busch

Jenna Busch is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Legion of Leia and has hosted and written for sites like Nerdist, ComingSoon.net, Metro, Birth. Movies. Death., IGN, AOL, Huffington Post and more. She co-hosted Cocktails With Stan with the legendary Stan Lee and has appeared on Attack of the Show, Fresh Ink, Tabletop with Wil Wheaton, in the documentary She Makes Comics, on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and has covered film/TV/gaming/comics for years. She's currently a co-host on Most Craved. She's been published in the comics anthology Womanthology, is a chapter author for Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind, Game of Thrones Psychology and Star Trek Psychology and more, and owns a terrifying amount of swords and 20-sided dice. There are also those My Little Pony trailer voice overs that give one nightmares.