The Orville

*ZariusTwo* · 07-29-2016, 12:46 PM

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. alumna Adrianne Palicki is set as the female lead opposite Seth MacFarlane in his 13-episode straight-to-series hourlong comedic drama for Fox. Also cast in the project is longtime MacFarlane voice actor Scott Grimes.

Set 300 years in the future, the untitled show — MacFarlane’s first live-action TV series — follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, this motley crew of space explorers will boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before.

MacFarlane plays Ed, captain of Orville. Palicki plays Kelly Grayson, Ed’s ex-wife and the newly appointed First Officer of the Orville. Grimes plays Gordon, Ed’s best friend whom he hires to pilot the Orville.

Palicki is coming off a two-season stint on ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, where she played fan favorite Bobbi Morse. Along with Nick Blood, she also toplined the spinoff pilot Marvel’s Most Wanted this past season. In features, she recently co-starred in John Wick. The Friday Night Lights alumna is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and attorney David Fox.

Grimes has been acting alongside MacFarlane for more than a decade on MacFarlane’s animated comedy American Dad, where Grimes is a main cast member, voicing the son of MacFarlane’s Stan. Grimes also has done voice work on MacFarlane’s flagship animated comedy Family Guy. Grimes, who recurred on Justified, is repped by Abrams and Industry Entertainment.

http://deadline.com/2016/07/adrianne...st-1201794853/

*Autbot_Benz* · 10-06-2017, 12:46 AM

Loving The Orville so far its more Star Trek than Discovery is. Its Seth's Love Letter to TNG

*plastroncafe* · 10-06-2017, 07:31 AM

I am legitimately shocked by how much I'm enjoying this show.

*Vegita-San* · 10-06-2017, 07:34 AM

wow. posted a year ago, and hardly any activity. guess folks where not expecting much.

except for a few badly placed jokes that ruined the drama, and action pacing in the pilot, i rather quite enjoyed it. i'm waiting for this ones first season to be done before I delve into it.

seeing as how it's on fox, and they screwed over sleepy hollow, i'm not hoping for a happy ending with this series.

But yes, it DOES feel ten times more like trek than that drek discovery...with a far more interesting set of characters.

And it's odd to say that, since brannon braga is on this series too..one half of the crew that helped ruin modern trek after a bit of trek burnout.

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 10-06-2017, 07:35 AM

Same here! It reminds me of a slightly more serious (relatively speaking) "Galaxy Quest" style spoof. Plenty of Trek flavor but more easy-going. Only quibble is the ship design. The back end looks weird. Love the shark-like look of the front half- just can't quite get that odd engine configuration.

Leofan26 · 10-07-2017, 12:05 PM

Woops, wish this guy luck with the ratings, The Cleveland show got cancelled after how many seasons?

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 12-31-2018, 05:44 PM

So, Orville season two premiered last night. And the first ep of the season was a real "whizz"! The plot basically revolved around the fact that Bortus's (sp?) species only urinate once a year, and how there was an entire ceremony ("The Great Release", lol!!) built around it. Cue the pee jokes. Surprisingly enough, there were relatively few such jokes, and they mostly got that out of the way early in the episode, aside from a few awkward conversations about what was expected during the ceremony. Actually, the episode never devolved into the crude type of juvenile potty humor that it could have, which was- pardon the pun- quite a relief. (Yes I went there. I like bad puns, sue me.) Instead, it mostly revolved around everyone's love-lives and whom to take as their "dates" to the big pee ceremony. (I can't believe I actually just wrote that seriously) There were a couple of sub-plots with the chief medical officer's son hanging out with a bad seed, and then getting into trouble because of it, and Ed and Kelly continuing to hash out the conflict between their continued feelings for each other, and the protocols of Captain and First Officer, and then a new crewmate arriving and subsequently becoming the object of pursuit by one of the bridge crew as a date for "the Great Release". As episodes go, this one was pretty good. I really enjoyed it, in spite of the odd and almost ridiculous premise of the reason for going back to Bortus's home planet. It was actually a lot less dumb than it sounds, and more serious. Or maybe I'm just pissing in the wind....

Egon1982 · 01-30-2019, 12:17 PM

Excellent series, it's something different from Seth.

*ZariusTwo* · 05-11-2019, 02:41 PM

Back for a third season

https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/mo...ason-3-at-fox/

**Jester** · 05-11-2019, 06:46 PM

Love The Orville. Glad to get a 3rd season.

joe-eyeball · 05-11-2019, 08:19 PM

Thank God, I love this show!

dudeabides · 05-11-2019, 09:22 PM

I enjoyed the first two seasons, especially the Kaylon war. I thought they put out a good first season dvd set too with a lot of extra. I watch Discovery too, but it seems over dramatic compared to this program.

*Roseangelo* · 05-12-2019, 10:31 AM

This is my favorite show that's currently airing. I was confident that season 3 was going to happen, but having confirmation is very nice.

*ZariusTwo* · 07-23-2019, 09:30 AM

Scott Grimes and Adrienne Palicki have divorced already!

https://people.com/tv/adrianne-palic...-marriage/amp/

youhavemysupport · 07-23-2019, 11:45 AM

Bortus spinoff please!

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 07-25-2019, 03:44 PM

Just found out the new season will be exclusively on Hulu.

So much like Lucifer, I won't be able to watch it unless they release box sets of new seasons. This sucks. They are killing regular tv with all these streaming services, to the point that eventually, folks with antenna only tv won't have anything to watch.

**Jester** · 07-25-2019, 05:10 PM

Love that the point was to cord cut, and now there are 3 billion streamers at $14.99 each...

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 07-26-2019, 09:12 AM

Yeah, I can't even justify subscribing to three or four services just for one or two shows on each. It's ridiculous.

*Vegita-San* · 07-26-2019, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Yeah, I can't even justify subscribing to three or four services just for one or two shows on each. It's ridiculous.

Agreed. I tend to watch alot on netflix, so it's affordable.

I only got Hulu temporary for Extreme Ghostbusters.

I can't afford more than one. let alone 5.
It'll add up to morethan cable, and these hollywood idiots don't realize that.

*ZariusTwo* · 01-11-2020, 01:45 AM

Seth McFarlane has quit 20th Century Fox and signed with NBCUniversal Content Studios

https://deadline.com/2020/01/seth-ma...tv-1202827104/

10-06-2017, 12:46 AM	#2
Autbot_Benz Hellblazer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Ventura California Posts: 8,284	Loving The Orville so far its more Star Trek than Discovery is. Its Seth's Love Letter to TNG __________________ I respect what FW cartoon did for the turtles franchise but it is the most overrated and hard to watch of the 3 turtles cartoons.

10-06-2017, 07:35 AM	#5
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,772	Same here! It reminds me of a slightly more serious (relatively speaking) "Galaxy Quest" style spoof. Plenty of Trek flavor but more easy-going. Only quibble is the ship design. The back end looks weird. Love the shark-like look of the front half- just can't quite get that odd engine configuration. __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

12-31-2018, 05:44 PM	#7
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,772	So, Orville season two premiered last night. And the first ep of the season was a real "whizz"! The plot basically revolved around the fact that Bortus's (sp?) species only urinate once a year, and how there was an entire ceremony ("The Great Release", lol!!) built around it. Cue the pee jokes. Surprisingly enough, there were relatively few such jokes, and they mostly got that out of the way early in the episode, aside from a few awkward conversations about what was expected during the ceremony. Actually, the episode never devolved into the crude type of juvenile potty humor that it could have, which was- pardon the pun- quite a relief. (Yes I went there. I like bad puns, sue me.) Instead, it mostly revolved around everyone's love-lives and whom to take as their "dates" to the big pee ceremony. (I can't believe I actually just wrote that seriously) There were a couple of sub-plots with the chief medical officer's son hanging out with a bad seed, and then getting into trouble because of it, and Ed and Kelly continuing to hash out the conflict between their continued feelings for each other, and the protocols of Captain and First Officer, and then a new crewmate arriving and subsequently becoming the object of pursuit by one of the bridge crew as a date for "the Great Release". As episodes go, this one was pretty good. I really enjoyed it, in spite of the odd and almost ridiculous premise of the reason for going back to Bortus's home planet. It was actually a lot less dumb than it sounds, and more serious. Or maybe I'm just pissing in the wind.... __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end Last edited by MsMarvelDuckie; 12-31-2018 at 05:51 PM.

05-11-2019, 02:41 PM	#9
ZariusTwo Overlord Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Britain, DINO THUNDER...POWER UP! Posts: 20,892	Back for a third season https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/mo...ason-3-at-fox/ __________________ TMNT Fan Script Discussion Thread "It Should Have Ended Here"...add your ideal ending to the Series Fauxnale wiki Add Your Story to the TMNT Fanfiction Wiki Spider-Man: The Rescue Spider-Man: The Galloping Cat Spider-Man: Scarlet Mirror Doctor Who: Child of the Daleks

05-11-2019, 06:46 PM	#10
Jester Rat-faced Dude-guy Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas Posts: 26,216	Love The Orville. Glad to get a 3rd season. __________________ "Clearly, you're Ninja Turtling incorrectly." - Leo656

10-06-2017, 07:34 AM	#4
Vegita-San Emperor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 5,915	wow. posted a year ago, and hardly any activity. guess folks where not expecting much. except for a few badly placed jokes that ruined the drama, and action pacing in the pilot, i rather quite enjoyed it. i'm waiting for this ones first season to be done before I delve into it. seeing as how it's on fox, and they screwed over sleepy hollow, i'm not hoping for a happy ending with this series. But yes, it DOES feel ten times more like trek than that drek discovery...with a far more interesting set of characters. And it's odd to say that, since brannon braga is on this series too..one half of the crew that helped ruin modern trek after a bit of trek burnout.

10-07-2017, 12:05 PM	#6
Leofan26 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 1,282	Woops, wish this guy luck with the ratings, The Cleveland show got cancelled after how many seasons?

01-30-2019, 12:17 PM	#8
Egon1982 Hench Mutant Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: Planet Mars Posts: 367	Excellent series, it's something different from Seth.

05-11-2019, 08:19 PM	#11
joe-eyeball Stone Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cleveland Posts: 682	Thank God, I love this show!

05-11-2019, 09:22 PM	#12
dudeabides Foot Soldier Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 105	I enjoyed the first two seasons, especially the Kaylon war. I thought they put out a good first season dvd set too with a lot of extra. I watch Discovery too, but it seems over dramatic compared to this program. __________________

05-12-2019, 10:31 AM	#13
Roseangelo Emperor Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 8,979	This is my favorite show that's currently airing. I was confident that season 3 was going to happen, but having confirmation is very nice. __________________ www.ninjapizza.net www.colorsbyrosemary.com

07-23-2019, 09:30 AM	#14
ZariusTwo Overlord Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Britain, DINO THUNDER...POWER UP! Posts: 20,892	Scott Grimes and Adrienne Palicki have divorced already! https://people.com/tv/adrianne-palic...-marriage/amp/ __________________ TMNT Fan Script Discussion Thread "It Should Have Ended Here"...add your ideal ending to the Series Fauxnale wiki Add Your Story to the TMNT Fanfiction Wiki Spider-Man: The Rescue Spider-Man: The Galloping Cat Spider-Man: Scarlet Mirror Doctor Who: Child of the Daleks

07-23-2019, 11:45 AM	#15
youhavemysupport Thug Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: Moon Konami Posts: 59	Bortus spinoff please! __________________ TMNT RTA 激亀忍者伝 💛

07-25-2019, 03:44 PM	#16
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,772	Just found out the new season will be exclusively on Hulu. So much like Lucifer, I won't be able to watch it unless they release box sets of new seasons. This sucks. They are killing regular tv with all these streaming services, to the point that eventually, folks with antenna only tv won't have anything to watch. __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

07-25-2019, 05:10 PM	#17
Jester Rat-faced Dude-guy Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas Posts: 26,216	Love that the point was to cord cut, and now there are 3 billion streamers at $14.99 each... __________________ "Clearly, you're Ninja Turtling incorrectly." - Leo656

07-26-2019, 09:12 AM	#18
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,772	Yeah, I can't even justify subscribing to three or four services just for one or two shows on each. It's ridiculous. __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

01-11-2020, 01:45 AM	#20
ZariusTwo Overlord Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Britain, DINO THUNDER...POWER UP! Posts: 20,892	Seth McFarlane has quit 20th Century Fox and signed with NBCUniversal Content Studios https://deadline.com/2020/01/seth-ma...tv-1202827104/ __________________ TMNT Fan Script Discussion Thread "It Should Have Ended Here"...add your ideal ending to the Series Fauxnale wiki Add Your Story to the TMNT Fanfiction Wiki Spider-Man: The Rescue Spider-Man: The Galloping Cat Spider-Man: Scarlet Mirror Doctor Who: Child of the Daleks