David Duchovny has described the upcoming six-episode revival of The X-Files as being "like a six-hour movie."

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The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Duchovny (a.k.a. Fox Mulder on the show), who said he's glad to not be doing full X-Files TV seasons anymore."When I was doing the show, I always assumed – because we started to do the movies – that we would naturally transition to not carrying the load of doing a full season of the show but doing a movie every four or five years," said Duchovny.According to The X-Files lead, Fox had some input on the second movie that didn't do the franchise any favours."That didn't work out with the movies … [The second movie] did well, but I guess not well enough," he said. "Fox made some mistakes with that movie that hurt the franchise and they didn't seem to want to do another movie. So as the TV landscape changed and as it became conceivable to do this show without doing 22 or 25 [episodes] of them on television, then it seemed like a natural thing. We all started to think, 'I don’t mind doing it on TV if we don’t have to do a full season.'"Duchovny also confirmed that fans shouldn't expect any major changes to how the six-episode arc plays out in relation to the older series."It's going to be the same show," he said. "It's obviously going to be different times and the characters are going to be older and all of the things that are going to be changing naturally will change."The new episodes of The X-Files will shoot later this year, with no confirmed premiere date at this stage, but we do know two of the original writers are on board.