A&E Joins the Occult

A&E have joined forces with X-Files alum, James Wong and big time producer Michael Bay and gave the go ahead on the pilot for their show “Occult”.

The premise for the show is centered around a FBI agent (X-Files anyone?…lol) as he returns to active duty after losing it while investigating the disappearance of his wife (Sounds like they are taking a little from another Chris Carter and his book of stories and “Millennium”). So of course they send the guy down to the newly formed occult unit.

Makes sense to me…lol.

With the go ahead, A&E seems to be becoming more and more a supernatural/horror genre network, and with the wreckage that is the SYFY channel, is a huge sigh of relief for fans.

In case you have been living under a rock, A&E also airs “The Walking Dead”, “The Killing” (while not supernatural, but definitely falls in the whole conspiracy realm ala “The Lone Gunmen”), and the soon to be released “Psycho” spin off: “The Bates Motel” and the American version of the Danish hit: “Those Who Kill” which takes down the rabbit hole of serial killers. Again a little nod to “Millennium”.