Mitch Pileggi is Officially on Board for The X-Files Reboot

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Mitch Pileggi is officially on board for The X-Files reboot
Pileggi’s Walter Skinner is the only character, other than Mulder and Scully, to appear in every X-Files season and movie.

Roseanne Barr: I’m going blind
“My vision is closing in now,” says the former Roseanne star, who’s been using medical marijuana to avoid losing her sight.

Regina King joins The Leftovers
The Southland alum will play a doctor when the HBO series reboots itself for Season 2.

Zooey Deschanel: I’m not “adorkable” — that was a New Girl marketing ploy
“That was something that was calculated, you know what I mean?” she says. “That was our marketing department at Fox and they did a really good job with our first season, but that’s a word that describes the character that I play, not me. I don’t personally have identification with that word myself.”

Grace and Frankie gets Craig T. Nelson to romance Jane Fonda
The Parenthood and Coach star will recur on the Netflix series.

Casting in San Francisco: A 94110 tech-themed TV drama pilot
The alleged pilot, about tech execs living in San Francisco’s Mission District, sparked “visceral outrage” among some locals, according to SFist.

Watch Vince Gilligan as Commissioner Gordon
The Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul honcho has taken on another acting role, this time in a Batman parody sketch for Comedy Bang! Bang!

Madeleine Stowe explains her Revenge future
“I think that anybody who has really, really watched the show and who really knows Victoria would know that she’s pretty much had a death wish,” she says.

ABC Family casts British actor Dominic Sherwood in Shadowhunters
He’ll co-star in the drama based on the The Mortal Instruments books.

Check out Mike Tyson’s Lip Sync Battle
The former Heavyweight Champion performed to Salt-N-Pepa’s 1986 hit Push It.

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk is a disjointed talk show
The problem is the acclaimed physicist is joined each week by a different co-host as they dissect clips of a pretaped conversation Tyson has with the main interview subject. Another problem is that the discussion isn’t accompanied by enough graphics or illustrations. PLUS: There’s too much talking, and Tyson would like to land interviews with Charlie Sheen and President Obama.