Matt here: This update has a round of major News developments. The most significant being Chris Carter who has a new series he is pitching to various studios.

"Unique" has been described as a female lead supernatural police thriller, where Chris Carter will be executive producing, writing, as well as directing, along with Media Rights Capital. The company hopes to go straight to series on the project. Chris Carter has previously commented: "I won't do a domesticated show, We did little movies with The X-Files each week, and I really want to do a show that has that scope. The X-Files had a large canvas, and I don't want to limit my canvas by doing something that is a typical, traditional franchise show, and if you look at the show's I've done - The X-Files, Millennium, Harsh Realm, and even The Lone Gunmen - they we're big canvas shows. They were scopey, and that's what I want to continue to do."

The Lexicon will be following these developments with interest, and will fully support this project. On a side note, the Deadline Hollywood piece inferred that the project "Fencewalker" is listed as 'upcoming'.

Erica Fraga's ACS auctions, which was developed as a fundrasing off-shoot of her book, LAX-Files, is now into it's second phase. Some of the items include autographed copies of The X-Files, and Breaking Bad TV scripts. X-Files crew clothing and set props, Autographed X-Files Magazines, Calendars, Collectable cards, an autographed copy of the Mark Snow Box set, as well as other items from The Walking Dead, Castle, and Army Wives.

Our friends at IBG have informed us that The DVD of the Conversation with Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny has been released, details below.

IBG Inc's "Conversation with Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny" DVD release on October 18th 2011

In case you missed out on attending IBG, Inc's one of a kind "Conversation with Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny (with special guest Chris Carter), the Los Angeles area non-profit now has the DVDs for sale!

The special one and a half hour un-moderated, completely candid event takes fans behind-the-scenes with the friends and former 'The X-Files' co-stars as they reminisce, remember, and even speculate on working together in the future. What exactly would a third movie look like, for example? Or would Anderson ever consider popping over to 'Calfornication?' These are just a few of the topics they take on in this very special event.

The "Conversation with Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny" took place on July 30th 2011 in front of a limited audience at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills CA. Ticket sales from the charity event benefitted SA-YES, a South African charity founded in 2008 to provide much needed support for marginalized children and young people of that region. The DVD sales will also benefit SA-YES and can be purchased on IBG's website at http://www.ibginc.org.
 The program is at a critical point, and we're thrilled to be able to support their efforts with this unique event. To find out more about SA-YES, please visit:
http://sa-yes.com/home/

And for a sneak peek at this DVD, please see the following trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVE9CO7or0I

DVD details are as follows:

DVD title "A Conversation with Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny"
Production Co.: IBG, Inc.
Regions 1 & 2
Release Date: October 18 2011
MSRP: $20 USD (plus shipping/handling)
DVD Extras: A photo slideshow, bonus video of impromptu auction held by Gillian Anderson, exclusive behind-the-scenes video with a special message from Anderson and Chris Carter.
Exclusively available at: http://www.ibginc.org/store

Founded in late 2008, IBG Inc (http://www.ibginc.org) established a non-profit focusing on utilizing the power of philanthropy through the arts to benefit a broad range of charities worldwide. We act as a "fundraiser facilitator" for underfunded, under publicized, and start-up charities that would otherwise struggle with the logistics and costs associated with event fundraising. This work has taken on a critical importance as the economy has been slow to recover, and we find ourselves with increasingly frequent requests for assistance.

For more information on this DVD or IBG, Inc. in general, please contact publicity@ibginc.org.

Thank you for visiting the Lexicon, we fully support both causes for IBG and the ACS auction, well worth the expense for a good cause, we have some more developments impending!

Matt here: We are very proud and pleased to be able to present our exclusive interview with composer Mark Snow. It's another historical step for us, and the timing was great considering the release of the X-Files: Volume 1 box set. Writer Matt Hurwitz must be credited for helping to set it up.

Fittingly, Alexander Grodzinski's in-depth analysis of the X-Files: Volume 1 box set can be found in our Case Analysis reviews page.

We have a lot more developments, and exclusives coming up! Thank you for visiting the Lexicon!

Matt here: We proud to present our new feature, 'Lexicon TV', and to launch it, here is our video report about the LAX-Files book signing event, May 7th, 2011, with video interviews with Erica Fraga, Matt Hurwitz, Jana Fain...and Glen Morgan, Jeff Gulka (Gibson Praise), Darin Morgan, and Mitch Pileggi, all whom were interviewed by our anchor Chelsea.

LAX-Files event, May 2011

We had numerous challenges with the audio of the event, which should explain the delays with getting this ready. Special Thanks to Mark Solario for his incredible work, and Jeremiah Moore.

Our first news segment is up as well, brought to you by Chelsea.

May 2011 News report

The infrastructure hasn't been set up yet, but all of these videos will be featured in its own section in the near future, which is a part of a new re-design with some new features. I hope people will keep checking out this material, and thank you for visiting the Lexicon.

Matt here: A lot of activity, We're proud to present our exclusive interview with author Amy Donaldson on her book, We Want To Believe: Faith and Gospel in the X-Files.

We also have arranged a special promotion with the book's publisher, we're offering a discount code to be used on the publisher's website.

A review of We Want To Believe can be found on the Lexicon Blog.

Our friends at X-Files Universe asked us to mention their fan fiction contest, looks promising, you might want to enter.

More material coming related to the LAX-Files event, thank you for visiting the Lexicon!

Matt here:  My apologies for the delays. We have a number of issues to bring up. The Lexicon is proud to present our exclusive report on the LAX-Files book signing event. Video of the event is forth coming to coincide with the launch of our new feature, Lexicon TV.

Beginning in July, LAX-Files has organized a series of American Cancer Society Auctions, with various items to be placed on E-Bay. Autographed items include contributions from the cast and crew of The X-Files, Breaking Bad, Castle, The Walking Dead, Army Wives, Mad Men, and Bob Goodwin's Alien Trespass, details can be found here.

The fine folks from Serenity of X asked us to mention their June 2011 FRR & DSR Awareness Month, which for anyone unfamiliar, are shipper discussions about Dogget/Scully & Follmer/Reyes pairings. Sounds fun, and you can find out about it here.

Having met the real Brad Follmer, it's interesting to think fans have an interest in pairing up his fictional character.

Thank you for visiting the Lexicon, a lot more to come shortly.

A joint vision from key X-Files fansites has resulted in the launch of "The Syndicate," a networking page for all sites related to TenThirteen Productions. X-FilesLexicon, EatTheCorn and XFilesUniverse are the founding members of "The Syndicate" to help build, support and strengthen the fanbase of "The X-Files," "MillenniuM," and all TenThirteen-related projects. "The Syndicate" is a landing page that will allow anyone easy access to multiple websites.
 
This initiative is an interactive and proactive webring or platform targeting to create more cohesion among all efforts, on-line and off-line, that honor the work produced by TenThirteen Productions.
 
As explained by webmaster Matt Allair of X-FilesLexicon: "To the fans, I view 'The Syndicate' as one-stop shopping. If fans like what they see, bookmark it, keep visiting the Syndicate, and write to the webmasters of your favorite sites and encourage them to register... The fans will determine its success."
 
"It's been nearly 18 years," further elaborates Kimon of EatTheCorn, "that The X-Files started broadcast and in that time fandom has grown, fragmented, and grown again many times over. It is time to think long-term and federate fandom presence in a spirit of cooperation. The Syndicate plans to accompany this next evolution."
 
 "The thing I find most exciting about 'The Syndicate,'"  says Maurisa of XFilesUniverse, "is the opportunity for all of our sites to work together to promote TenThirteen Productions. There are so many sites, and we all have our own strengths and our own promotions. But with 'The Syndicate,' our sites can endorse each other and raise awareness across the fanbase. After all, we all want to see growth in the fandom."
 
Membership in "The Syndicate" provides promotion for each website, complete with RSS feeds and links for each member site. In addition, special events for each site will be featured prominently. A forum for Syndicate members is provided to help member sites' staff better communicate with each other and enable greater capability to work together to promote TenThirteen Productions projects, such as a third X-Files feature film or a new Frank Black movie.
 
Read our full Mission Statement that explains our vision and purpose!
Visit our Membership page to add your site to The Syndicate!
 
The Syndicate Members:

Matt here: Recently an X-Files book was just published whose theme is long overdue, a book that explores the spiritual aspects of the X-Files. Long time fan, Amy Donaldson's "We Want To Believe: Faith and Gospel in the X-Files".

Here's a few positive comments from none other than Frank Spotnitz, and the author of "The Philosophy of The X-Files".

"What a wonderful book. With grace and intelligence, Amy Donaldson explores the questions of faith and mystery that form the secret heart of the The X-Files. Skeptics and believers alike are bound to come away with new insights into the series--and life."
--Frank Spotnitz
Executive Producer, The X-Files

"Donaldson utilizes the synergy and convergence of Mulder and Scully's relationship and her impressively vast knowledge of the X-Files universe to uniquely argue that by not giving up on the truths of the heart--faith, hope, and love--one may thereby discover (and become renewed in) the 'truest truths' that are 'out there.'"
--Dean A. Kowalski
author/editor of The Philosophy of The X-Files

You can order it via Amazon or here, or visit her blog, or her Facebook page.

Looks promising, you might want to check this out!

Matt here: We ended up being lax about getting the updates posted in March, my apologies for that. Joe McBrayer's article for the Omnibus has been up, on the fascinating subject of Exorcisms.

We also updated the Character Dossier pages with new character descriptions, and art.

Again the podcast interview for The X-Files Truth was great fun. Agent Summer and Agent Shadow have been incredibly kind, and enthused, and I appreciate the experience, as one last reminder, you can check it out here.

Erica Fraga has been incredibly busy organizing a great, and must see event where the proceeds go to a great cause. A question and answer book signing with such incredible talent as none other than Chris Carter, R.W. Goodwin, Shelia Larken, Glen Morgan, Mitch Pileggi, and Jeff Gulka. The details are as follows:

Mark Goodsen Screening Room @ AFI
2021 N. Western Ave
Los Angeles, Ca 90027

Saturday, May 7, 2011

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Hors d'œuvres provided by Mardy's Munchies.

Special gift provided by Dean Haglund

Event begins promptly at 1:00pm

All proceeds from this event will benefit the American Cancer Society, in honor of Kim Manners.

By hook or by crook, we will be there, if all goes well, it should be an unforgettable afternoon.

Keep visiting the Lexicon!

Matt here: Again, we have been belated with the updates, my apologies for that. With the advent of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and countless outlets, it becomes difficult to remember to post here.

A lot of been published, and there has been a lot of news. To catch up, we are proud to present two great interviews in short order. Our exclusive interview with Howard Gordon, writer, producer, and now author, concerning the publication of his first book; Gideon's War, where he chats about his process, and his appearance at the Paley Festival panel from 2008.

Erica Fraga has finally published her book: LAX-Files: Behind the Scenes with the Los Angeles Cast and Crew, and we have an exclusive interview with her, where she talks about the creation of the book.

It is astonishing what Erica has managed to accomplish, and the book has been a real pleasure to read. I also must thank her generosity in mentioning the Lexicon in her book, the more word get's out about the site, and the hard work that is done, the more it's appreciated.

While it's long overdue, we finally published our episode guide review for season one's The Erlenmeyer Flask, which means we've reached another small milestone, everything is completed for season one, with the exception of future additional updates of production information, as well as layout refinements.

It's been an interesting week. I was approached about three weeks ago by a staffer of a really wonderful X-Files podcast, to have the Lexicon profiled, and to conduct an interview about the Lexicon's history, some X-Files chat, and a bit of my personal history. The interview happened just the other day, and I will keep you posted when that develops.

http://xfilestruth.wordpress.com/

As always, thank you for visiting the Lexicon, and keep checking in.

This year has been a trying time for the Lexicon, we ended having a lot of behind-the-scenes projects in development that haven't come into fruition as of yet, but we hope that 2011 will shape up to bring all of these to reality. Once again, there's a lot of people who work behind the scenes, faces that come and go, as well as new friends, and each of them have somehow helped to shape what the Lexicon has become.

XScribe continues to be an incredible help, and ally, I continue to owe her a debt for sticking with this venture even if it's been a challenging year in some respects.

I put forth a set of challenges to Jill this year, and she continued to go above and beyond, with a good amount of grace and cheer.

I must thank Angie C, for writing some incredible material over the past year, in spite of some trying moments in her life.

Mimic also delivered above and beyond, with several wonderful pieces, and I am in her debt for shaping the Case Analysis section.

I must thank Alexander for his incredible critical reviews for the Case Analysis section, once again his work has helped to point a way for future critical work.

I must thank Robert Shearman for his incredible generosity and availability at the beginning of the year. It was indeed an honor to promote his book.

A huge thank you must go out towards Libby, for helping to make the Robert Shearman interview happen, she truly was a kind of guardian angel at a needed period for the site.

Once again, I must personally thank Adam Vadnais for his continued support and counsel, his availability is appreciated.

I must personally thank Jana Fain for her support, friendship, and while she has moved on to other pastures, her personal availability has been appreciated.

A thank you must go out to Alison Groves from the Big Light Social Network, for her continued friendship, and support.

In spite of all of Gabe Rotter's incredible work as Director of Development of 1013 Productions, I must thank him for taking the time to interview, it was a real pleasure to support the promotion of his book, as well as an honor. I also appreciate his personal support in the second half of this year.

We made a new friend this year with Maurisa from The X-Files Universe, and I must thank her for her enthusiasm over something impending.

Joe McBrayer has remained a steady friend to the Lexicon, and has continued to deliver some great work as well as enthusiasm. Thank you.

Once again, thanks must go to a pair of people who has been helping with a very special and important project that is finally about the see the light of day. Mark Hayden has remained an incredible friend to the Lexicon, as well as helping to open a door to a person who could be of great importance in the future. Lastly, Kimon from Eat The Corn was one of the earliest people to become involved with the above project, and his support, as well as friendship remains in high regard.

I also must thank Dietrich Johnson for his continued cooperation.

I also must thank Raskolnikov,  from whom we showed great support while she was busy finishing up her own fan book, she has increasingly shown herself to be quite invaluable, and she's in my debt.

I must thank Chris Knowles, for his continued support, and friendship, as well as being a growing influence due to his incredible site, The Secret Sun.

Shivani Saran has been an incredible help at the Lexicon's Facebook group page, and I continue to look forward to her help in the future.

Philliater has really come through during a trying period, and it will not be forgotten anytime soon.

To Karen, Viridian, MullySculder, Polly, Invisigoth, Bellefleur, as well as Sarah, Erin, Terry, Tere, and Helene, thank you for your wonderful artwork that continues to grace the site.

I'd like to thank Nicky and Aliatope1013 for their continued assistance with the Lexicon Forum.

I must thank Red Scully, David Morris, and Robin England for their continued support.

Mike Marek from The X-Files Timeline, is another that I must thank for his great understanding, patience, and support, it was more than I expected.

I should also thank for the continued and patient cooperation of Dan from Popcorn Monster, Aly from Ask Dr. Scully, Ghostfreak from the X-Files Forum.net. Megan from XF Roadrunners, and Richard and his staff at CC2K. Everyone from the site 'This Is Who We Are', and Graham Smith.

Just about lastly: while they haven't been in the news as of late, I must thank Chris Carter, and Frank Spotnitz, for making all of this possible.

I'd like to thank everyone who has friended us at Twitter, or joined our Facebook group, the list is too long to mention here, but it's appreciated.

The Lexicon blog has faced a number of highlights over the past year, and I wish to thank those who visit, and support it.

I'd like to thank all of the new members who registered at the Lexicon Forum, many of whom have been longtime supporters and friends to the Lexicon and many are new friends. The fan success of the Lexicon and the Lexicon Forum is in no doubt because of you:

Eddie, Mika1304, gi, Explodey Jo, berdy, XF Victim, MacKay50, susem913, Lee, newton9527, Mulder8scully5, Edison50, ghostmojo, thesscib, zevera, arrombJoday, blarcsable, Detective Manners, Death, vacation lady, FoxMulder, Law77, xvade, eccentricrabbitt, Agent Skulder, Scullyismyhomegirl, Angelhorn26, maurisap, ozium, and MrDarb.

My apologies to anyone I may have forgotten. 2010 started out as a good year for the Lexicon, and we shall see how 2011 shapes up to be. Keep visiting The Lexicon and I wish you all a great New Year.