New X-Files Season 11 Photo Is A Total Throwback, And It Definitely Spells Trouble

The X-Files returned to the small screen for the first time in nearly 14 years back in 2016 for a Season 10 that reunited the iconic duo of Mulder and Scully for some more investigations into the paranormal. While many things were the same as they had been in the original series, there were some big changes that were somewhat jarring to longtime fans. The show is returning for a Season 11 in early 2018, and a photo for the new season was just released that's a total throwback to the original run of the series. Take a look:

Yes, one of our agents will be stuck in the hospital while the other is still up and about, presumably to rampage and/or reflect. Longtime fans of The X-Files know well that Mulder and Scully ended up in the hospital on a semi-regular basis. Whether it was one of them getting shot, contracting a terrible disease, lying comatose, or recovering from an infestation, there were a lot of hospitalizations. Scully back in the hospital with Mulder at her bedside definitely spells trouble for what's ahead.

Admittedly, I did laugh when I first saw this photo, if only because part of me wonders if Mulder has his head down because he's doing mental math to try and figure out just how much time the two of them have spent in hospitals over the years. That said, we probably shouldn't be too amused by Scully back in the hospital, as the imagery of her unconscious in a blue hospital gown with Mulder looking exhausted at her side seems an awful lot like a callback to what was arguably Scully's most physically devastating time in the hospital:

The Season 11 photo of Scully in the hospital bed looks frighteningly similar to Scully's state in Season 2, when she suddenly turned up after being abducted, comatose and wasting away to the point that she was certain to die if taken off life support. We didn't know it then, but tests had been done on her, a chip implanted in her neck, and her ova had all been removed. If the Season 11 photo was deliberately staged to call back to Scully's post-abduction state in Season 2, we can be sure that Scully's in for a rough ride.

Season 11 will delve back into the X-Files mythology connected to Scully's abduction and the chip in her neck, according to EW, so the similarities between the two instances of Scully in a hospital bed and Mulder at her side may not be coincidence. Then again, maybe poor Scully was afflicted by yet another freak accident, and the wardrobe department just happened to put her in blue. For her sake, I only hope that it's not the return of her cancer.

We'll have to wait and see. Season 11 of The X-Files will return to Fox at some point in early 2018. Check out our breakdown of what we know about Season 11 so far for a peek of what has been announced about the new episodes, and take a look at our picks of questions that absolutely need to be answered sooner rather than later in the new season. For your viewing options sooner rather than later, take a look at our fall TV guide.

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DC's Titans TV Show Just Cast Another Comics Character

DC is bringing a new group of superheroes to the small screen with Titans, which is slated to debut on DC's upcoming exclusive director-to-consumer streaming service. A number of characters from DC Comics will be adapted for television, and we already knew a number of the actors who will bring them to life. Now, Titans has cast another comic character. Lindsey Gort of The Carrie Diaries is on board to play Police Detective Amy Rohrbach.

While Amy Rohrbach is not exactly the biggest comic character of DC fame, she did have a great deal of significance for a time in a certain comic series. She was a cop based out of Bludhaven when Dick Grayson relocated to fight crime in her city as the masked vigilante known as Nightwing. Dick decided to become a police officer so that he could fight crime from within the system as well as with his work as Nightwing. As a rookie cop, he was partnered with Detective Amy Rohrbach, who was one of the few honorable and non-corrupt officers in the Bludhaven Police Department.

The two weren't partnered up for too long in the grand scheme of DC Comics, but they became strong allies. Although Dick did have to turn in his badge after Amy learned his secret, she protected his secret, and she became a friend to certain vigilantes operating in Bludhaven. She wasn't a vigilante herself and she didn't wear a mask, but she was one of the good guys in a city full of corrupt cops.

Not too much is known about the Titans version of Amy Rohrbach at this point, although TVLine reports that Amy will be the new partner of Dick Grayson, which at least tells us that Titans' Dick Grayson will be with the police as well. We can't say at this point where he's working. We can rule out Gotham City, however, as Dick is trying to get out from Batman's shadow in Titans, and that could never happen in Gotham City. Dick is being played by Brenton Thwaites of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. We can bet that Lindsey Gort will share a lot of her screentime with Thwaites.

All things considered, Lindsey Gort is probably best known for her role as the young Samantha Jones on the CW series The Carrie Diaries, which was a prequel of Sex and the City. The show only ran for two seasons from 2013-2014. After The Carrie Diaries got the axe, she landed a role on TV Land's Impastor from 2015-2016. Recently, she appeared as Candy Morningstar in an episode of Lucifer on Fox. It should be fun to see how she operates in a world of superheroes.

Lindsey Gort joins a cast already comprised of Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson, Anna Diop as Starfire, Teagan Croft as Raven, and Alan Ritchson and Minka Kelly as the crime-fighting duo Hawk and Dove. We're still waiting to learn who will play Beast Boy, and the odds are that we're in for adaptations of other comic characters as well. Stay tuned to CinemaBlend for the latest Titans news, and check out our fall TV premiere schedule to discover when all the current superhero series will return to the airwaves.

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Why Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Almost Didn’t Happen

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was Marvel's first major live-action television show, coming years before the Netflix leg of the Marvel universe kicked off. The four seasons so far have been a hit with diehard fans, and Season 4 changed things up in some exciting ways. That said, ratings have been declining more or less steadily since the beginning, and fans have had to worry that S.H.I.E.L.D. would get the axe just about every spring. As it turns out, we were right to worry about the show while Season 4 was still on the air. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 almost didn't happen due to some behind-the-scenes opinions at ABC.

ABC and Marvel have reportedly not been on the same page when it comes to both of their current shared comic properties. According to Variety, some folks behind the scenes at ABC wanted to cancel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. after Season 4, but Disney mandated that S.H.I.E.L.D. be renewed for Season 5. While it's not clear why some at ABC thought it was time to give S.H.I.E.L.D. the axe, the odds are that the combination of disappointing ratings and high effects costs meant that S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't exactly a top priority series for renewal.

It's worth noting that ABC did make some changes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this year. The show aired for the first four seasons in various time slots on Tuesday nights, with a premiere in late September. For Season 5, the show was pushed back to a winter debut and will air on Fridays. Although the show was technically pushed back to allow ABC to air Inhumans, a move to Friday is rarely a good thing for a show. That said, S.H.I.E.L.D. was still ordered for a full season, despite being pushed back, and ABC Chief Channing Dungey has said that the goal is to turn Fridays on ABC into a fantasy destination, with Inhumans/S.H.I.E.L.D. paired with Once Upon a Time.

We can only hope that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets a ratings boost in Season 5 so that ABC doesn't regret the mandate from Disney that they renew the Marvel series for another batch of episodes. The Season 4 finale ended on a crazy cliffhanger that could have devastating consequences, which might be a big draw for viewers. We also know of a major character slated to return in Season 5, along with a possible Kree presence.

Of course, the reception for S.H.I.E.L.D. might at least partially depend on how Inhumans performs in primetime. The new show isn't generating much in the way of positive buzz with critics, and it didn't run in IMAX for as long as we thought. If Inhumans doesn't resonate with viewers and flops, then people might not be inclined to return for more Marvel on ABC. We'll have to wait and see.

ABC has not yet announced an official premiere date for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5, so be sure to stay tuned to CinemaBlend for the latest news. Inhumans will debut on Friday, September 29 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Our fall TV guide can help you plan the rest of your small screen lineup moving forward.

Source: cinemablend

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