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Returning: The X-Files

X-Files will air on TEN 6 days after its US broadcast.

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TEN is back to super Sundays with a strong ‘event’ line-up from Sunday, 31 January.

6pm Family Feud
6:30pm I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Season premiere.
8pm Modern Family. Season premiere.
8:30pm The X-Files. Season premiere.

The premiere for The X-Files will take place 6 days after its US broadcast. While many of its audience are likely to be across digital platforms, downloads and online buzz, a second episode will air at 8:30pm Monday February 1, meaning two eps will air outside of ratings.

Australia’s #1 game show, Family Feud, makes its return to Sunday nights airing Sunday to Friday at 6pm. Join host Grant Denyer as he meets some of Australia’s funniest families on the show where having fun is just as important as winning.

Hosted by Julia Morris and Chris Brown and broadcast live, five nights a week from South Africa, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! will premiere at 6.30pm and will continue Monday to Thursday at 7.30pm.

Speculation is rife about which celebrities will trade their luxurious lifestyles for jungle living. All will be revealed on the first night when Julia Morris and Chris Brown welcome the brave celebrities into the wilds of the African jungle.

Australia’s favourite dysfunctional family returns at 8.00pm. The seventh season of Modern Family will bring even more of the wild hilarity fans have embraced, with the three families facing a myriad of trials and tribulations in their own unique comedic ways.

In what promises to be the biggest science fiction television event of 2016, The X-Files will premiere at 8.30pm.

More than 13 years after the original series concluded, FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are back investigating unexplained cases for which the only answers involve paranormal phenomena.

Viewers will not have to wait long for their next paranormal fix, with episode two airing the following night on Monday, 1 February at 8.30pm.

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  2. i have enjoyed the sneek peeks that TEN have aired. But waiting so long untill you air them smacks of morronic decisions made in the scheduling department. Have they not learn yet from the debarcle that was Empire. One of the hottest shows in a long time and TEN managed to butcher its premier here in OZ. Yes TEN have improved last year but they should not get carried away they were starting from a very low base. They have tons of improvement left in them. One way they can start improving their reputation and thus audience is to air the new US shows ASAP actually fast tracking it. This latest scheduling blunder goes to show that they just dont get it.

  3. Completely unacceptable by 10 not fasttracking the x-files revival, even if people are still going to watch it , by other means for the HD and no ads. if they did show it alot faster than 6 days. I say more people are going to watch it some other way rather than waiting a week for 10 to show the first 2 episodes.

  4. Given the poor reviews the first ep of the new X-Files has received OS it probably doesn’t matter how long it takes to screen here. Oh well, maybe ep 2 will be better (or maybe the critics are just wrong, wouldn’t be the first time).

  5. 6 days is completely unacceptable. Fast Tracking… it’s an actual thing now people.

    I thought Channel 10 were finally doing something right, but no. I was wrong. They’re kidding themselves if they think they will win viewers who have been waiting for this show to return.

  6. If it proves a success in viewer numbers for Ep’s 1 & 2 Ch10 will change things around to reduce the wait. 6 days is nothing its just the start times. Its 8:30pm now but on the night 8:48pm, that’s what network tv needs to sort out. Not when they are going to show stuff but when it starts. The last episode of the X-Files was shunted to late night on a Friday I think with a couple of months delay.

    1. “…Ch10 will change things around to reduce the wait.”
      Got a reference for that? You demonstrate a fair bit of faith that is not backed up by evidence. I’m not even expecting that Ten will necessarily play all of the eps in the correct order. And yeah, who knows what time it will actually start?

  9. Wait TEN is still to air the Modern Family season premier which aired months ago in the US?

    Also a bit disappointed they won’t be showing The X-Files until almost a week after the US, many fans will just not wait that long and don’t want to be spoiled online or with talk shows and news in general.

    Seriously this should have aired Tuesday nights in place of NCIS for the six weeks it’s on.

  10. Ten are waiting till people get back from School Holidays, but for people who don’t watch sport before 7 & 9 can establish their lineups after the tennis and T20.

    It’s the best Ten can do. Otherwise it would be launching later up against MKR, Molly or Wanted etc.
    Ten will loss 30% of viewers to timeshifting, 4-5% to catch-ups and even smaller number to illegal downloads (most of whom will do it anyway to get it in HD, without ads, when they want it).

  11. This is a show that probably needed a same day fast track. Its too well known and will be too hard for viewers to avoid spoilers. A part of me thinks that a 6 day delay means goodbye viewers and anther part thinks it could be worse.

    I think how well tens night goes depends on which players actually make the mens final. If its an aussie then ten will lose viewers. Though with the way kyrgios and tomic are behaving that seems more and more a distant possibility. If its the usual players than you might have more viewers flipping channels. Also the longer the match goes the more it will affect the x files. But then there is always catch up.

    1. Six days is fine. Viewers will know once it airs in the US when it;s airing in Australia – I think the real problem is for the shows which have no air date in sight, that’s where viewing them online is unsurprisingly favoured by many. But if you know it’s a few days away you should really be able to hold out.

  13. And now what will really happen on 31st Jan:

    6pm Family Feud
    6:30pm I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Season premiere dragged out by at least 20 mins.
    8:29pm Modern Family. Sneaky Season 6 repeat).
    8:59pm The X-Files. Season premiere.

    And on the 1st Feb:

    8:30pm TBA

  14. Ten are copping a bit of flack about the delay screening X Files but IMO they’ve made a wise decision waiting until ratings season starts. Ten need to get the year off with a bang off the back of Big Bash. It made a lot of headway last year and needs to continue building.

  15. Great news about the double here, except the US will be showing ep3 on Monday 1 Feb so our “catch up” will be momentary and we will still be 6 days behind (the US has a 2-night premiere also for the first two episodes on 24/1 and 25/1).

  16. Actually in the US X files screens ep 1 on 24th Jan and then ep 2 on 25th Jan according to Tv.com so we will be 6 days behind regardless and not catching up.

  17. Great news. I will be watching I’m A Celeb, Modern Family and The X Files but not Family Feud. Shame it’s all going up against the grand final of the Australian Open, hopefully everything rates well.

      1. The networks are only interested in promoting their main reality offering and don’t seem interested in letting viewers know about their drama offerings.

  18. There’s a two-night premiere for this in America too, so we’ll still be six days behind after episode 2 airs.

    Disappointing Ten aren’t fast-tracking this one more quickly given the anticipation for it.

    1. I think its actually a smart move premiering it after i’m a celeb, because you will get i’m a celeb fans watching the x files and the x files fans watching i’m a celeb.

  19. Ten are waiting too long to air the premiere. It is exactly the sort of show viewers will want immediately, so I’m tipping many will download it within the week between US and Australian debuts.

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