![]() ![]() ![]() Each female writer left after only one year working there - “ probably happily, and some probably hoping to come back, but not invited back,” said Newton. On the day-to-day, you are always feeling like your job is at risk.”Īll of the women enlisted to write for The X-Files were relatively new in comparison to the male writers who were hired, according to Newton. When you're in an environment that isn't like a team-environment, more of a ‘survival-of-the-fittest’ environment, it's a real challenge. “If I had been there 10 years in as opposed to it being my first job, I think I would've done quite a bit better, and I think I would've lasted longer. She’s since produced and written for a number of television shows, including The Blacklist, Cold Case, and New York Undercover. You talk over ideas, and you sort of deal with him one-on-one,” she explained. “It's probably the only job I've ever really had like that that was constructed that way … You pretty much work on your own, and you bring things to Chris. Newton said Carter’s writers room was competitive, writer to writer. It was her first-ever staff job on a television show.Īlthough Newton is grateful for the opportunity to have written for The X-Files and admits that “sometimes getting the first job is the hardest job,” she recalled Carter’s writers room being a place without “a whole lot of positive reinforcement.” During her time writing for the show from 1995 to 1996, Newton was the sole woman on a team of seven writers. “It sort of historically has been a place where more male writers have been for many years,” she told BuzzFeed News of The X-Files. Those numbers aren’t “overly surprising” to Kim Newton, who was a writer for The X-Files Season 3. Over the past 10 seasons of the show - which spans 208 episodes to date - only nine women have earned writing credits. The popular sci-fi series ran from 1993 until it was canceled in 2002, and it was rebooted in 2016. This week, after it was revealed that The X-Files creator Chris Carter had hired a team of all men to help write the show’s upcoming season, many critics slammed the showrunner for “ rejecting diversity.” Even X-Files co-lead Gillian Anderson chimed in, additionally pointing out the show’s lack of female directors. ![]()
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