It was around this juncture in Season One that Chris Carter realized that running two shows was impractical and that he needed to find a showrunner to take on Millennium (1996) in its second season. He offered the job to Frank Spotnitz who deliberated over this for a few days before declining, citing his relative inexperience in the TV industry at that stage and the fact that he was more dedicated to The X-Files (1993). Carter would later approach Glen Morgan and James Wong with the showrunner job when their own show Space: Above and Beyond (1995) was canceled.