Community’s Joel McHale to star in X-Files revival

He's better known as Community's slick-talking perma-texting Jeff Winger, but Joel McHale is about to enter a far darker timeline by joining the cast of the new X-Files series.

The 6ft 4in leading man is set to appear as a guest star in the cult paranormal show, which will reunite brooding FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, a.k.a. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. McHale will play a character named Tad O’Malley, who is described as "the anchor of a popular conservative internet news network who becomes an unlikely ally for Fox Mulder". Joel McHale? The face of The Soup playing a smarmy host? We can't see it...