Seth MacFarlane’s THE ORVILLE Moves from Fox to Hulu
Seth MacFarlane’s incredibly well-made Star Trek inspired sci-fi series The Orville has made a big move. It was revealed at Comic-Con during the panel for the series that the upcoming Season 3 would air on Hulu instead of Fox, which has been the home for the series for the first two seasons.
According to Variety, the reason for the change is because of MacFarlane’s current workload and “the length of time it takes to finish work on the show’s numerous special effects sequences would have meant that Season 3 would not have been ready for a midseason debut.”
The upcoming episodes are now expected to launch on Hulu at the end of 2020. MacFarlane explained the situation for the change in a statement:
“The Orville has been a labor of love for me, and there are two companies which have supported that vision in a big way: 20th Century Fox Television, where I’ve had a deal since the start of my career, and Fox Broadcasting Company, now Fox Entertainment, which has been my broadcast home for over 20 years. My friends at the network understood what I was trying to do with this series, and they’ve done a spectacular job of marketing, launching and programming it for these past two seasons. But as the show has evolved and become more ambitious production-wise, I determined that I would not be able to deliver episodes until 2020, which would be challenging for the network. So we began to discuss how best to support the third season in a way that worked for the show. It’s exactly this kind of willingness to accommodate a show’s creative needs that’s made me want to stick around for so long. I am hugely indebted to Charlie Collier and Fox Entertainment for their generosity and look forward to developing future projects there. And to my new friends at Hulu, I look forward to our new partnership exploring the galaxy together.”
The Orville is a great series! I love the stories it’s told and the characters it has introduced. It’s easily one of the most entertaining shows on TV, and I don’t care where the the airs as long as we get to keep watching new episodes of the show!
The Orville is a live-action series set 400 years in the future that follows the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. MacFarlane also stars in the series along with Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J Lee, Mark Jackson, Chad L. Coleman and Jessica Szohr.