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Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter (creator of The X-Files), which aired on Fox from October 25, 1996, to May 21, 1999. The series follows the investigations of ex-FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), now a consultant, with the ability to see inside the minds of criminals, working for a mysterious organization known as the Millennium Group.
Millennium is a 2010 Swedish six-part television miniseries expanded from the 2009 film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium book series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. The miniseries was produced by Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies.
The Dragon Tattoo film series [2] [3] consists of films based on the Millennium book series, which were written by Stieg Larsson and David Lagercrantz.The plot centers around Lisbeth Salander, an asocial computer hacker, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called Millennium, as they investigate criminal injustices.
The first season was received well by critics. Keith Uhlich of Salon magazine called the season and series "Carter's greatest series", and that, "television work always improves in retrospect; his seemingly haphazard, on-the-fly narratives become more coherent when taken out of the hellish, commercial break-happy context wherein they spawned". [6]
Millennium 's genesis stemmed from "Irresistible", a second-season episode of The X-Files penned by Carter. [1] Influence was also drawn from the works of Nostradamus, and the increasing popular interest in eschatology ahead of the coming millennium. [2] The series began airing in the Friday timeslot formerly occupied by The X-Files. [3] "
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The second season saw series creator Chris Carter step down as executive producer, being replaced by the team of Glen Morgan and James Wong. [1] Morgan and Wong had previously written episodes for the series in its first season, [2] and had worked with Carter on his first television series The X-Files. [3]