- Title: USA: CREATORS OF 'THE X FILES' PRESENT THEIR NEW TELEVISION SHOW 'MILLENNIUM'
- Date: 7th December 1995
- Summary: (RECENT)( REUTERS TV) SOUNDBITE ENGLISH) BILL SMITROVICH WHO PLAYS "LT. BOB BLETCHER" SAYING THERE'S GREAT HOPE IN THE SHOW BUT WE HAVE TO SHOW THE DARKNESS BEFORE WE SHOW THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS IS WHERE WE FIND THE CLUES TO THE HOPE - THE HOPE IS WE'LL GET YOU, THEY WILL FIND YOU SOONER OR LATER. SOUNDBITE ENGLISH) MEGAN GALLAGHER WHO PLAYS "CATHERINE BLACK" SAYIN
- Embargoed: 22nd December 1995 12:00
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- Location: VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVAB7S3HO4JH7HVRBHPM611CQJMD
- Story Text: Creators of the acclaimed television series "The X-Files" offer a new experience in the paranormal in the form of the hit new strip "Millennium".
"Millennium" chronicles the work of Frank Black, played by actor Lance Henriksen. His character is a former Seattle homicide detective and FBI investigator, who has recently moved back to Seattle with his family.
Black is recruited by The Millennium Group, a mysterious organisation whose members each have special abilities and whose function is to investigate grisly murders which resemble prophecies surrounding the arrival of the new millennium.
Chris Carter, the show's creator and producer, said the programme attempts to combine the renewed interest in the paranormal, sparked by "The X-Files," with the arrival of the millennium.
In the first episode of Millennium, Black leads the hunt for a sick serial killer who believes he is fulfilling God's will by ridding society of "evil" prostitutes and homosexuals.
The killer exacts ritualistic torture on all his victims. Even the opening sequence leaves little to the imagination with blood and fire oozing from the walls of a brothel as a stripper faces her murderer.
The television show also features Terry O'Quinn who plays Millennium group member Peter Watts; Bill SMitrovich who plays Lt Bob Bletcher and Megan Gallagher who plays Black's wife, Catherine.
Their daughter Jordan, played by young Brittany Tiplady, said her parents allowed her to stay up to watch only the scenes in which she appeared and those which where not judged too scary.
Gallagher described the series as "terrifying", saying the pilot series left her with nightmares.
The show will premier in Britain early next year, but one broadcaster Sky has said it will not go out before 10 pm.
With religious and sexual overtones, Carter said Millennium was an old-fashioned tale of good triumphing over evil. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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