Just look at A&E and its pilot orders! It’s giving a good impression of a network that would like to lure People Like Us into its viewership with Our Kind of TV. We’ve been telling you about their Psycho prequel Bates Motel since they first announced it last January; we’ve since reported that our beloved Lost co-showrunner Carlton Cuse will be showrunner for the series, and that A&E has ordered ten episodes.

Now comes news that A&E is dipping its network toes into the supernatural side of creepy with a pilot order for a Michael Bay (Transformers) -produced series about a new (sorry kids, it’s just fictional) FBI occult crimes task force, entitled, appropriately, Occult. It will center on an FBI agent who joins the new unit upon his return from administrative leave, so ordered after “going off the deep end” while investigating his wife’s disappearance. His new partner specializes in the occult. Sounds like a sort of a mix-and-match redo of X-Files, which would be completely fine with us.

Deadline broke the news, doubling our joy by also reporting that the pilot is to be written by James Wong, who has written episodes of American Horror Story, The X-Files, The Lone Gunman, The Event, Millennium, and the underrated The Others, along with Final Destination and Final Destination 3. Wong is a partner with Platinum Dunes, which is not only producing this pilot but also The Last Ship for TNT and Black Sails for Starz.

The pilot order for Occult is reportedly cast-contingent, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed extra hard for some excellent casting news in the near future. Here’s hoping…