On Sunday, October 1st, FOX - home to iconic TV series The X-Files - will premiere Ghosted, a new paranormal action comedy about an ex-cop and an ex-professor joining forces to explore the possibility of aliens, ghosts, and anything else that might go bump in the night.
The show/network pairing is most definitely purposeful too, according to stars Adam Scott and Craig Robinson, and creator Tom Gormican, who I had the pleasure of speaking to back at the Austin Television Festival.
"It's beyond appropriate," Robinson said, of Ghosted airing on FOX. "That's why we wanted to be in it. FOX recognized that too and were very excited about it."
"Yeah, from the very start, before we ever spoke to Tom about this I thought 'this has got to be on FOX'." Scott explained. "It's perfect. And they felt the same way, luckily." Gormican then added that part of what made The X-Files stand out was the horror element, noting "There isn't really another sort of horror genre comedy on TV and that's something we're going to lean into. And there's no other network other than FOX really for people who've tried to spore that on the drama side."
Like The X-Files too, Ghosted won't just focus on extra-terrestrials. "The pilot actually deals primarily with aliens," Gormican clarified, "but the show will deal with the full gamut of anything that's outside the field of scientific explanation. Anything from getting stuck in a virtual reality world or an episode where there's just a traditional ghost."
Scott plays Max, a disgraced professor who believes his wife was kidnapped by aliens while Robinson is Leroy, a mall security guard. Both men get kidnapped, for reasons unknown, by the Bureau Underground - a secret government agency tasked with investigating the unexplained. Further echoing the The X-Files too is the fact that Max is the believer and Leroy is the skeptic.
"We think it's more of an approach," Gormican said. "Leroy's the detective so he'll approach things in a different way and look for a rational perspective. He'll look for a logical explanation in things regardless of what point he's at in his skepticism. Max will always start from a point of 'Oh my god, it might be this crazy fantastical thing.' We don't need to keep steadfast skepticism throughout the series, but the investigative approach will stay the same."
"Bill Murray was a believer halfway through Ghostbusters," Scott added, "but he was able maintain skepticism throughout the rest of it."
Previously, Scott and Robinson worked together on Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and Knocked Up, but they were always searching for the perfect buddy comedy to star in. "I knew this would happen one day," Robinson admitted. When I first worked with Adam and saw his sense of humor I was like 'I'm going to work with that dude'."
Likewise, Scott said that the show felt destined to be. "When Tom brought the idea to us I was like 'Oh yeah. Craig. Buddy comedy.' And I immediately thought of 48 Hours and Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run and all those buddy movies that we all love dearly and saw this as a perfect opportunity to make a childhood fantasy come true."
"I used to drive around in my mom's Civic imagining being on a process trailer with a buddy in the front seat, thinking about being in one of those action comedies," Scott continued. "Cut to, 25 years later, I'm on a process trailer with Craig and we're giving each other s*** and we're laying the groundwork for one of those relationships where you'd love to see these two guys together. That's what we're hoping for anyway."
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/2aJ67FB.
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