It’s official. Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi adventure series The Orville will return for a third season on Fox. The renewal is not unexpected. Things were looking bright for a Season 2 renewal when the series received approval for $15.8 million in the latest round of TV tax credits for a third season, up from the $14.5…

A busy night on broadcast primetime saw the first night of the NFL Draft (1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 4.88 million viewers) on ABC go up against the likes of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory (1.7, 11.55M) and Young Sheldon (1.4, 10.27M) as well as three finales. In the end, the three-and-a-half-hour NFL Draft…

“When we began this, it was designed to be a little bit more of a hybrid, straddling the line pretty evenly between comedy and drama,” said Seth MacFarlane, creator of Fox’s sci-fi adventure series, The Orville. Speaking at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy confab on the Paramount lot, MacFarlane — who is known for his…

The Orville's Season 2 debut (1.5, 5.6M) was no match for its first season opener (2.7, 8.558M) which also had followed a Sunday NFL overrun. But, the second season starter of Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi series on Fox ticked up a bit compared to its Season 1 average (1.2, 4.33M), and jumped 67% compared to last season's…

Fox’s The Orville and Freeform’s Good Trouble are yet to launch their second and first season, respectively, but the series look well positioned to get a renewal for another season after that. In the latest round of California TV tax credits, Seth MacFarlane’s space dramedy was approved to receive $15.8 million for a…

On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Patrick Stewart's Capt. Jean-Luc Picard was well known for telling his first officer to "make it so.” Well, it seems that the California Film Commission has followed the Enterprise commander's order to the lucrative letter in its latest round of small screen tax credits…

Fox has firmed up its winter schedule, setting premiere dates for the final season of Gptham, new dramas The Passage and Proven Innocent as well as new installments of Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville and Cosmos and Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back. Following the December 13 end of Thursday Night Football on…

Twentieth Century Fox TV is invading New York Comic Con with their new fantasy thriller The Passage, The Orville, The Gifted as well as their fan-favorite animated comedies Family Guy and American Dad! Deadline exclusively reported that Fox’s Marvel series The Gifted would be headed to the East Coast fanboy/fangirl…

Seth MacFarlane has not exactly been a shrinking violet over the years when it comes to scrutinizing his own home network, Fox. But the creator of Family Guy and The Orville has taken things up a notch this weekend, tweeting that he is “embarrassed” to work for the network after the latest Fox News flap. MacFarlane on…

Eight years after Fox opened a single-camera comedy block on Tuesday, the network is ending it following the cancellation of all but one of its single-camera half-hours, LA to Vegas, which is still in contention for midseason. Instead, the network, which picked up three multi-camera comedies, newbies The Cool Kids and…

This week, Deadline’s Production Value video series continues its space exploration with Seth MacFarlane sci-fi series The Orville, as Emmy-nominated production designer Stephen Lineweaver takes us behind the scenes and into the Fox show’s titular space vessel. Beginning his career in the art department in 1984—with…

Chris Johnson (47 Meters Down) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming second season of The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s Fox space dramedy. Johnson will play a new character aboard the ship. The Orville stars MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, Halston Sage, J. Lee, Mark…