Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville is moving from Fox to Hulu for its third season. The switch was announced today at San Diego Comic Con.
What’s happening:
- Seth MacFarlane announced today at San Diego Comic-Con that sci-fi series The Orville will move to Hulu exclusively for its upcoming third season.
- The Seth MacFarlane-created series will hit the streaming service as a Hulu Original in late 2020.
About the series:
- “The Orville is a live-action, one-hour space adventure series set 400 years in the future that follows The U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. Its crew, both human and alien, face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the problems of everyday life.”
- The third season of The Orville will join Hulu’s lineup of premium Original genre programming including:
- Castle Rock from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King
- Marvel’s Runaways
- Future Man from Seth Rogen
- Into the Dark franchise from Blumhouse Television
- Upcoming hyper-noir drama series Reprisal
Creative team
- Produced by:
- 20th Century Fox Television
- Fuzzy Door Productions
- Created and written by:
- Seth MacFarlane
- Executive produced by:
- MacFarlane
- Brannon Braga
- David A. Goodman
- Jason Clark
- Jon Cassar
What they’re saying:
- Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Orville: “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.”
- Carolyn Cassidy, President of Creative Affairs, 20th Century Fox Television: “Fox Entertainment has been a fantastic home for The Orville and their willingness to support the show’s move to Hulu is incredibly appreciated; they really are great partners to us on so many shows and this is one more example. We’re thrilled as a studio to find this creative solution which is so meaningful to Seth and keeps the show on track to continue entertaining its millions of fans.”
- Craig Erwich, SVP Content Development, Hulu: “We know our viewers are huge fans of The Orville, along with many of Seth MacFarlane’s groundbreaking hit shows, and we can’t wait to bring Season 3 to them exclusively on the platform. Hulu is a home for the world’s most sought-after creative talent, and we’re incredibly excited to welcome Seth and the entire cast and creative team of The Orville to our Hulu Originals slate.”