As The X-Files event series comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK, we chatted to creator Chris Carter about the response to the revived series, doing more episodes and looking back on his lengthy time on the show…

Were you pleased with the way the revival series turned out?

Yes, I’m very happy with the work, I’m proud of the work, and with the response to it, we had terrific ratings here in the US.

It’s a big risk to come back to the show after 23 years, and do it with actors and directors and writers who are 23 years older, and hopefully the audience is still there. We had the fans, the hard-core audience, and a desire to see the show again, and we decided to do all fresh new material, so that was also a risk, that we weren’t going to do sequels. So I’m very pleased that all those risks, which were calculated, ended up becoming rewards.