You can tell The X-Files is being filmed in California, now; it doesn’t look drizzly and Canadian anymore. Plus, the music is much more thematic than it has been in the past. Rather than re-re-re-reusing the same synthesized “creepy noise” cues, it’s much more like movie score.
MST3K is going to only have thirteen episodes this season, inasmuch as Sci-Fi decided not to pick up the option for the remaining nine (making a complete season).
Here’s the good thing, however — There Will be a season ten, and Sci-Fi and Best Brains are getting along wonderfully (unlike how everything went with Comedy Central)… There’s no ratings problem, and the show isn’t disgruntling anyone at the station. Sci-Fi seems to be grateful to have some light-hearted original programming to flesh out the turgid bleakness of much of the material on the station.