ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

TELEVISION

The Fox Files: Besides renewing “The X-Files” after a cliffhanger negotiation involving star David Duchovny, Fox has ordered a spinoff drama featuring three recurring characters from the series, “The Lone Gunmen,” to make its debut in January. The show is scheduled for Thursdays, paired with an untitled drama from novelist and “ER” creator Michael Crichton. Fox will also go for chills on Friday nights with two shows in that genre, “Night Visions” and “Fearsum,” while a new show from “Ally McBeal” creator David E. Kelley, now titled “Boston Public,” will lead into that series Mondays, focusing on teachers in a suburban high school.

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Prime Pax: Pax TV, the seventh aspiring broadcast network, will introduce three new prime-time series next fall: “Mysterious Ways,” starring Adrian Pasdar as an anthropologist who studies odd events and Rae Dawn Chong as his sidekick; “Encounters With the Unexplained,” a reality program; and “The Rumfords,” a comedy mixing live action and computer animation. Part-owned by NBC, Pax will also rerun selected NBC movies in prime time and air the quiz show “Twenty One” on Saturday nights. . . . Pax also announced that it will present three new “Christy” movies this fall. Tim Johnson, the network’s executive vice president for programming, said a nationwide talent search will soon begin for an actress to play the title role of Christy Huddleston.

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Prime Elian: Yet another Elian Gonzalez movie is in the works. Fox Family Channel announced Thursday that it plans to air “The Elian Gonzalez Story,” based on the tug of war involving the boy who was rescued at sea off the coast of Florida. The movie is slated for September. The script is being written by Dennis Turner (“The Long Hot Summer” and “Stolen From the Heart”) based on information from researcher D.J. Cannava. Cannava interviewed several key insiders, Fox said. Meanwhile, CBS is planning its own movie for November, and a feature film is on the drawing boards too.

POP/ROCK

Love’s Labor Lost?: Courtney Love is against music piracy but says that record companies are the real pirates by paying artists little for their work. “It’s not piracy when kids swap music on the Internet,” the outspoken singer-actress said in New York Tuesday night at “Digital Hollywood,” a conference on online entertainment. “Recording artists have been giving music away for free for so long, it doesn’t really matter.” She said many artists now lose money or have little left after expenses, even though the record companies make millions of dollars from one album. “Working at 7-Eleven would have been a better deal,” she said. Love and Eric Erlandson, principal members of the band Hole, are in a contract dispute with Geffen Records, which filed a lawsuit in January claiming the group still owes Geffen five albums under a 1992 agreement. Love, who insists the contract has expired, is exploring Internet distributors for her songs. Her position contrasts with that of other leading artists, who consider Napster and other Internet music services a threat to royalty payments. Metallica recently sued Napster over the issue.

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‘Selena’ Loses: The stage musical “Selena Forever” is unable to continue its national tour because of lost revenue from canceled shows in Los Angeles, co-producer Michel Vega said Wednesday in San Diego. The musical, based on the life of the murdered tejano singer, had been scheduled to open a five-day engagement May 4 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles as part of an eight-city tour. Disagreements between promoters and producers prompted the cancellation. “The Los Angeles date was a very, very important date for us financially and the proceeds from that engagement we were counting on for cash flow to keep on going,” Vega said. “It’s been completely crippling to us.” Whether the show eventually will be able to resume was unclear, Vega said.

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Requesting Privacy: Eva Jagger, mother of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger, died Thursday, a month after she was hospitalized in London with a heart condition. She was 87. “The Jagger family are deeply saddened and would request privacy at a time like this,” the family said in a statement.

MOVIES

Honoring Valdes and Themselves: UCLA Chicano and Latino students kick off their annual one-night film festival tonight with an award presentation to Hollywood producer David Valdes at the campus’ James Bridges Theater at 7. The event showcases 12 film shorts made by Latino students in the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television. A 1976 UCLA theater arts graduate, Valdes produced “The Green Mile,” “In the Line of Fire” and the Academy Award-winning western “Unforgiven” (1992). The latter two films starred Clint Eastwood, with whom Valdes has worked in various capacities on 18 films.

RADIO

Sound Bites: Today at 7 a.m., KBET-AM (850), which previously was simulcast with KXTA-AM (1150), begins a week of “All Ali Radio,” featuring the greatest moments of boxing champion Muhammad Ali’s career. Next Thursday, the station resumes its normal simulcast schedule. . . . In case you’re not home to catch “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” on television Sunday night, KABC-AM (790) will simulcast the ABC show at 9 p.m. The station, which has been experimenting with airing the Regis Philbin-hosted phenomenon since the beginning of the May ratings sweeps, reports positive listener response, and says that if the ratings are good, “Millionaire” could become a regular Sunday night event and could add a second night in the fall.