Joel McHale Joins New X-Files Season as Jerk Reporter/Mulder’s Friend

The first new addition to Fox’s limited series X-Files revival has been announced, and it’s awesome: according to The Hollywood Reporter, Community’s Joel McHale has joined on to the project as “Tad O’Malley, the anchor of a popular conservative Internet news network who becomes an unlikely ally for Mulder.”

Start writing your slash now, friends.

The truth is out there.

X-Files writer Glen Morgan also gave fans an inside look at production on the news series and what it’s like to work on the script that made David Duchovny cry:

Life! Is! Happening!

(via Comic Book Resources and Digital Spy)

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