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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- There's a lull on the set of ``The X-Files,'' allowing star David Duchovny to smoothly demonstrate disco moves to ``Rock the Boat.'' Then he engages in a trivia battle to name the band responsible for the 1970s hit.

Fox' record $80 million payment for TV rights to the second-rate movie sequel produced a whisker-thin first-place finish among its target viewers, ages 18 to 49 — for one week. To achieve even that marginal distinction, the film needed help from the prime-time spillover of a hot NFL game. By big-event standards, "Lost World" ratings were decidedly mediocre — on the first of the 10 runs Fox purchased.

Where does a television show go when it's coming off a summer that saw the release of a successful feature film, the relocation of production, and a whopping 16 Emmy Award nominations? Well, when your the X-Files, you keep on doing what you do best: Throwing curve balls to your audience while striving to reinvent yourself and raise the creative bar even higher.

The exclusive pact includes a first-look feature component and calls for him to develop at least one new series for Fox Broadcasting Co. next fall. He will remain as executive producer of "The X-Files" for at least two more seasons and "Millennium" for at least one more, while he develops new projects for Fox under his Ten Thirteen Prods. banner.

Unlike some Sci-Fi stars, The X-Files's Gillian Anderson doesn't mind being mistaken for her character. Gillian Anderson is contemplating that double-edged sword called fame. "When I'm at home, scraping food off the floor and cleaning up after the dog, I wonder why this person is calling me to do an interview for some magazine.

Newsday (the Long Island paper) has a section called Kidsday which is written and reported by local kids. Yesterday's section included interviews with Nicholas Lea and Dean Haglund.

After five years, Duchovny is considering leaving the highly popular XF. We ask him why, and whether he sees a future in the films...

Gillian Anderson is contemplating that double-edged sword called fame. "When I'm at home, scraping food off the floor and cleaning up after the dog, I wonder why this person is calling me to do an interview for some magazine.

Being with David Duchovny is a kind of metaphor for watching an episode of The X-Files. The more you uncover, the more you question. The more questions that are answered, the more you need to ask. Then you just suspend disbelieve in a kind of wonderment. He's addictive, a total cerebral intellectual with a swallowed, simmering sexuality. It's this kind of simmering, this sense that something intense and exquisite is being withheld that provides the sexual tension for his relationship with Scully on the TV show. Now, after five series of trying to prove we're not alone, it is the relationship that drives the show as much as The alien abductions and any other kind of visceral gruesomeness.

When the creator of TV's The X-Files sas Gillian Anderson's audition, he knew he'd discovered Agent Scully. Director Chris Carter was making a show unlike any other, and he needed an unconventional star. "Gillian had that stare," he says, "and a kind of mysterious aura about her."

David Duchovny reveals why he will never ditch the X-Files Every week, he's on the verge of proving to a sceptical world that, yes, aliens really do exist. Every week, he falls at the last hurdle. It's enough to drive anyone mad ... and David Duchovny is no exception.

Once in a while, David Duchovny - Fox Mulder in the hugely successful TV series The X-Files - feels the need to break out of the celebrity straitjacket. An appearance on American shock jock Howard Stern's live radio show, for instance, is normally enough to make the 37-year-old actor feel liberated from the saccharine treatment meted out to A-list personalities.

The promo thing before the show began showed shots from the segment that I'll describe later, with this voiceover:
"Plus, The X-Files' eerie connection to Titanic. We're first on the set as the show moves to LA and David and Gillian board the Queen Mary of [for? hard to hear] romance."

Interviewer (Mark Kermode): All over the world cinema goers have been swooning to the mysterious charms of Mulder and Scully in the long awaited X Files movie.....and here's the plot so far..... There's a global conspiracy involving government agents and extraterrestrials, nobody believes in it but Spooky Mulder, who almost but never quite solves the mystery and almost but never quite gets off with Dana Scully and in the last five minutes of any episode, all the evidence gathered up to that point either explodes, evaporates or flies off into space. Needless to say, it's absolutely brilliant, particularly if, like me, you're a conspiracy nut who really wants to believe that behind every senseless tragic accident, there's a mysterious man with a cigarette and a smoking gun.

VERY good article on Mulder and Scully and how they need each other. Stuff like that. Makes you feel all 'Shippy inside! (WARNING: This is not in the same format as the others. It will download it and open it up in Wordpad most likely. It only takes less than a second.)

VirtualCinema Technology Allows Players To Join Mulder and Scully in an All-New X-Files Investigation LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 18, 1998--David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, the award-winning stars of FOX television's critically-acclaimed series ``The X-Files,'' star as FBI agents Mulder and Scully in Fox Interactive's forthcoming live-action adventure game...

Web users speak directly with X Files cast and crew during an exclusive live chat and cybercast on Thursday, June 11, 1998 from 7pm - 10pm EST

ATLANTA, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The truth is out there. TNT's Rough Cut (http://www.roughcut.com), Amazon.com Inc., Earth's Biggest Bookstore (http://www.amazon.com) and Yahoo! Chat (http://chat.yahoo.com) are teaming up to bring it to fans when they host live online coverage of the blockbuster premiere of the 20th Century Fox film The X Files: Fight the Future..

TELEVISION REVIEW
The End Zone For 'X-Files,' the plot thickens as it heads for alien big screen By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff, 05/18/98 alk about conspiracies. The makers of ''The X-Files'' are amid a massive and unusual plot that, if it succeeds, could rival ''Armageddon.'' It could have a ''Deep Impact'' on the movie industry. It could become a ''Lethal Weapon 4'' for studios seeking to make a killing at the box office .. .

In the 5/23-5/29 issue of TV Guide page 20 an interview with William B Davis.

For five years, they have fought mutant sewer dwellers, seven-foot she-beasts, and chain-smoking double agents. Now, have alien forces finally taken possession of Scully and Mulder? Rob Tannenbaum goes to the set of the X-Files Movie and investigates the conspiracy surrounding the conspiracy.

SF AUTHOR HARLAN ELLISON & X-FILES CREATOR CHRIS CARTER TO CO-AUTHOR SHORT STORY LIVE AT "DANGEROUS VISIONS BOOKSTORE," May 16 @ 1pm PT...

August in Los Angeles, It's freezing. Not outside, of course, where it's in the 80's. But here, on a huge sound stage on the 20th Century Fox lot, people are bundled up in parkas, thick jackets, boots. Eight enormous black air conditioners occupy one end of the set, pumping out cold air. Trucks bring in blocks of ice that are crushed and spewed out across the enormous platform that takes up most of the stage. "Welcome to Antarctica," says a staffer.

What's a former Yale doctoral candidate doing in a place like this? After 125 episodes as Fox Mulder, the world's most paranoid F.B.I. agent, in the Fox hit The X-Files, David Duchovny has 30 million fans and a brand-new marriage to actress Téa Leoni, and earns $100,000 an episode. This month he stars in the X-Files movie, the top-secret, $60 million, special-effects-packed feature that addresses five years of X-Files mysteries. Michael Shnayerson talk to the man who is and isn't Mulder. He's with Scully at the end of a dark, dusty hallway. No hint of expression crosses his face as she speaks. "You want to hear the latest?" she says, deadpan herself. "Detective Pennock ran the gloves for blood-typing and found two different samples. One type matching Marty Glenn's..."

"The truth may be out there, but you'd need a rubber hose and a pair of pliers to force anyone involved in this $60 million adaptation of Fox's hit TV drama to reveal more than a hint of it. Like the whereabouts of Mulder's long lost sister or the origin of the colonizing aliens, the paranormal plotline of the X-flick is being kept double top secret...

  She is strolling along a brick path lush with rosemary, lavender, Mexican sage and primrose. Morning mist shrouds the rocky peak of nearby Mount Kuchumaa, its sacred slopes descending to a gardenlike valley of stately cypress and flamboyant palms. The stillness and natural hush of the land is broken only by the wind (and, earlier, the cry of a coyote) and the steady downpour of unexpected rain...

Sunday's battle of dueling miniseries has gone to NBC's ``Witness to the Mob, Part 1,'' which roughed up CBS' ``Only Love, Part 1,'' according to preliminary national Nielsens.
Fox's ``The X-Files'' (10.6 rating, 17 share in homes, 9.8/23 in adults 18-49) dominated both films from 9-10 p.m. in adults 18-49, and Fox won the night in that key demographic by two shares over NBC and ABC. CBS led the night in homes by three shares over NBC...