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Fox’s Tim Allen comedy Last Man Standing had been a last man standing among the broadcast series currently in production, hoping to wrap its eighth season amid the escalating coronavirus crisis. With two production days left, including the season finale taping on Tuesday, March 17, the studio behind the multi-camera…

Hulu's Craig Erwich opined on the streaming wars, questioned the increasing exclusivity around library content and discussed the future of The Orville and the ending of Veronica Mars. Erwich, who is SVP, originals at the streamer, opened his exec session at the Winter TCA press tour, by saying that he wanted to make…

EXCLUSIVE: Anne Winters (13 Reasons Why) is set as a new series regular on the upcoming third season of Seth MacFarlane’s epic space adventure series The Orville, its first season on Hulu. Created and written by MacFarlane, in season 3 of The Orville, set 400 years in the future, the crew of the U.S.S. Orville…

Seth MacFarlane’s space adventure series The Orville is moving to Hulu from Fox for its upcoming third season. The series will be available exclusively on the streaming service as a Hulu Original in late 2020. MacFarlane made the announcement today during the show’s panel at Comic-Con in San Diego. As for the decision…

The ongoing mission of The Orville is to explore a new television frontier in comedy and engaging sci-fi adventure and the second season of the Fox series proves the commitment to that quest by doubling down on intense action and interstellar peril. The meld is an uncommon one and even Jon Cassar,  one of the show’s…

EXCLUSIVE: The Orville executive producer Jon Cassar has signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television, the studio behind Fox’s sci-fi dramedy. The multi-year pact keeps the Emmy-winning director/producer and his Cassar Filmworks in the 20th TV fold. Under the deal, 24 veteran Cassar will continue on in his…

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…