COURT ESY OF FOX Fox Fumbles Handoff From NFC Championship to ‘The X-Files’ JANUARY 24, 2016 | 08:19PM PT Brian Lowry TV Columnist @blowryontv After a months-long promotional blitz for “ The X-Files ,” when Sunday’s big NFL game finally arrived, Fox fumbled the handoff. And that’s a surprise, given how long the network seemingly had this date circled on its calendar. Never mind that the reviews for this eagerly anticipated revival have been pretty tepid . 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. The tub-thumping for “X-Files” included early screenings (back in October at New York Comic-Con and Mipcom , the international TV market), but Sunday’s kickoff was clearly the moment for which Fox had been waiting. I
