ICYMI: A trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special and Michael Malarkey joins Blue Book

It’s another week and that means it’s time for another issue of Sci-Fi After Dark! Before we get to this week’s news, let’s take a quick look at what you may have missed last week.

Peter Capaldi is exiting Doctor Who in the upcoming Christmas special, and the BBC has a special planned to say farewell to the actor. They also released a trailer for the Christmas special. Peter Capaldi’s final episode as the Doctor will be airing on December 25th.

Blue Book, an UFO-focused scripted series for History, recently cast Michael Malarkey. The show will take a look at the investigations of UFOs in the 1950s and 1960s. Malarkey is previously known for his role as Enzo in The Vampire Diaries.

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TVAD Writers Room: A final verdict for Netflix’s Dark!

We’ve seen a large increase in the number of Netflix originals in recent years. The shows and movies they’ve produced have been extremely varied. While the quality of the shows and movies have also varied, they’ve also produced numerous critically acclaimed series. Their latest sci-fi series, Dark, is a German-produced time travel show. TVAD recently reviewed the first four episodes and we were highly impressed.

“Think of Dark like the frustrating mystery box you can’t unlock but secretly don’t want to. It’s very much a slow-burn process yet so much happens in its stead that it’s remarkable the end-product is so clean-cut.”

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Coming Soon: Fox unveils new trailer for The X-Files and Ronald D. Moore is developing a new space-based series!

With the season 11 premiere of The X-Files just around the corner, Fox has been releasing new artwork, trailers, and promotional pictures. We were recently given another sneak peek at the upcoming premiere.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will be reprising their roles as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, respectively. Season 11 of The X-Files premieres on January 3, 2018 at 8/7c on Fox.

Ronald D. Moore, known for his work on Starz’s adaptation of Outlander and the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series for Syfy, is developing a new show for Apple TV. Very little is known about the series at this point but it will mark Moore’s return to a space-based project. The series will explore what the world would be like if the global space race had never ended.