Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani continues to parlay his lifelong nerd-dom into starring roles in some of sci-fi and horror’s most celebrated franchises; the Big Sick star—who had a major role in an episode of the first revived series of The X-Files, after years of doing a podcast about the show—has now scored a main gig in the upcoming Twilight Zone reboot. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Nanjiani joins the already-cast Adam Scott and Sanaa Lathan in the anthology series, which is being produced by Jordan Peele for CBS All Access. (To be fair, the delay on the upcoming season of Silicon Valley means that he probably had a little time to kill.)