Adrianne Palicki Offers a Disappointing Update on THE ORVILLE Season 4 "It's a Really Difficult Show to Shoot"

A lot of fans have been wondering if Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville would be moving forward with a fourth season. Well, Adrianne Palicki recently offered an update on that and her answer probably isn’t the one you were hoping for.

The actress was recently a guest on Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast, and when he asked Palicki about The Orville by leading into the question about the series being one that she's currently part of, she quickly replied: "No, no longer doing that."

She went on to say that she doesn’t know the status of the series and explained that The Orville is a very difficult show to shoot. She explained:

"I don't know, truly, the answer to that. I think there's talk that it could possibly be something that certain people want to do, but it's a really difficult show to shoot, man. We shot 33 episodes in six years.”

If the show does move over it sounds like Palicki won’t be a part of it. It seems like it was frustrating for her and she shared:

"It became an actual issue because there would be so much time in between in between seasons because Seth [MacFarlane] wanted to write everything himself. So, it would just take so much time. At one point, we were like we have to fight the studio to give us a holding fee or something. J. Lee was eating saltines and Gatorade at one point because we just couldn't afford anything. It was horrible."

Yeah, that doesn’t sound like a fun time for an actor. It makes sense that this is a project an actor might want to move away from. But, as of right now, The Orville has not been renewed for a fourth season and it might not at this point. MacFarlane is a busy guy with multiple projects in development, and The Orville might not be a priority for him or the studio anymore. When previously talking about the future of the series, MacFarlane said:

"My hope is that when the show drops on Disney+, the people who haven't yet discovered [The Orville] will suddenly give it a chance. That's a potential game changer for us. I think that creatively and audience-wise, when people sit down and give the show a chance, it upends their expectations. The biggest burden with the show is preconceptions. People think it's one thing — there are people out there who think it's a sitcom — and when they sit down to watch it, they realize it's something completely different. Once you get people's eyeballs on it, the show does the work, it speaks for itself, and people tend to be hooked."

Do you think The Orville will eventually get a Season 4?