premise: The X-Files had at least ten award-winning seasons.
hypothesis: The X-Files . The program spanned nine seasons , included 202 episodes , and a feature film of the same name . Later in 2008 , a second film was made and preceded a tenth season revival , which consisted of six episodes , in 2016 . In April 2017 , Fox officially announced that The X-Files would be returning for an eleventh season of ten episodes , which would air in the 2017 -- 18 television season . Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations , and by the end it was the longest-running science fiction series in U.S. television history .