X-Files mini-series gets a teaser

Don't call it a comeback

With Mulder and Scully due to return to our screens early next year, the marketing machine for the X-Files revival is really beginning to pick up steam. Recently we got word that the first episode of the new series would screen to convention goers at this year's New York Comic Con, and now Fox have released a pair of promos that give us our best look yet at the freshly reanimated sci-fi drama.

As you can see, despite everyone looking a little more wayworn, it's business as usual for the X-Files crew, with far-reaching conspiracies, shady government cover-ups, and squishy grey aliens all getting a look-in. By the looks of things, Mulder's been off the grid - he's wearing one of those olive green army jackets, which are shorthand for "wandering vagabond" in TV and film land - but his sabbatical is cut short when he's called back into action by fellow believer Tad O'Malley (played by Community's Joe McHale). It all looks suitably exciting and definitely bodes well for the series' return in January.

Gillian Anderson starts campaign for X-Files Lego

Time to start an X-Files Lego campaign?! pic.twitter.com/w0Y07ynRPf

— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) July 24, 2015

Gillian Anderson, it turns out, is a major Lego fan, so much so that she's spearheading a campaign to have X-Files immortalised in Lego form. The sci-fi icon took to Twitter last week to tell her followers that the time is right for an X-Files Lego set. This will come as no surprise to fans of Anderson, who revealed her love for all things Lego during a Reddit AMA in 2014.

As most Lego-heads already know, the toy manufacturer does occasionally produce sets based on fan submissions - so far, we've had play sets based on Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and Minecraft. In fact, Brent Waller, the man who pitched the Ghostbusters build, already tried to make an X-Files set. However, Lego shot down the idea, claiming the show's themes were too mature for it to be considered.

That seems pretty final, but with X-Files due to return to our screens next year and Gillian Anderson's support, who knows, perhaps Lego will rethink their position and give us the tiny plastic Mulder and Scully our hearts desire. I want to believe.