‘The X-Files’ reaches more than 16 million on return

Sunday night’s NFC Championship Game saw the top-seeded Carolina Panthers overwhelm the visiting Arizona Cardinals by a score of 49-15 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, winning the night among all broadcast networks with a 24.1/37 household rating/share and an average audience of 45.7 million viewers, according to fast national figures released today by Nielsen.

The X-Files creator Chris Carter previously expressed that Fox would be ordering more episodes past the initial six if ratings were strong.

The sci-fi drama’s second episode on Monday delivered staggering numbers too with over 9.7 million viewers.

Those big X-Files premiere ratings were no fluke (man). It appears as though the fans have returned and welcomed the show back with open arms.

Due by 11:15AM, the adults 18-49 and total viewership numbers will provide a more complete indication of how FOX’s “The X-Files” and “Lucifer” performed Monday night. If the miniseries continues to have successful ratings, it’s likely there will be additional seasons or miniseries of “The X-Files” in the future. Fox spent months pounding the drums for the program, giving its premiere the plum time period following the NFC championship game, which, coupled with its AFC counterpart on CBS, are usually the second and third most-watched telecasts in any given year, behind only the Super Bowl.

Of course, at its peak the show was able to pull down over 29m viewers, but it’s a different TV landscape these days, and those numbers for a property that hasn’t been on TV screens for over a decade, and out of theatres since 2008, are very, very good. “I don’t want to speak for everyone, but I would”, he dished.

Fox placed a lot of marketing dollars behind “The X-Files” revival.

Premieres. Lifetime movie Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart managed a solid 3.6 million viewers Saturday.