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What’s next for The Orville? Recently, produces Tom Costantino and David Goodman spoke with TrekMovie the TV show’s third season move to Hulu.
The sci-fi action dramedy centers on Captain Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane), of The U.S.S. Orville, and First Officer Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki) — his ex-wife. Whether facing off with the Krill, a dangerous alien race, or attempting rescues on behalf of the Planetary Union, the human and alien crew still must deal with their mundane issues and each other.
As reported earlier, season three of The Orville is coming to Hulu instead of FOX. Speaking to TrekMovie, co-producer Tom Costantino and executive producer David Goodman revealed the show’s third season was only halfway through filming when the pandemic shut down production.
Now, Goodman says there are talks happening about how to resume production on The Orville:
There are lots of conversations going on at this moment, but nobody has made a hard decision on return to work. We want to get back to work as soon as we can, but we want to do it safely. And whatever strictures are in place, we don’t want them to get in the way of the show we want to make.”
And how will the move to Hulu change the series? Goodman says the transition allows more “freedom”:
What being on Hulu does is allows more freedom. The way Seth runs the show, we take the idea where it takes us. We talk about the episode we want and show we want to do and we write it, and then we produce it. And what Hulu allows us is, once it is produced, we don’t have to be as worried about length. So, there will be a variety of lengths. It allows us to leave some stuff in that we would have had to cut if we were on a network.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of The Orville? Are you excited for season three?
Picked up Hulu in anticipation of Orville. I will drop Hulu when Orville ends!
I love The Orville but not happy with it move to Hulu. I’m not going to sign up for any superfluous stations.
I am so thrilled that Orville is renewed but saddened it is on Hulu, the additional costs of Hulu, Netflix, Disney, CBS access etc. are just not in our budget. Love you Orville, will miss you too. Seth you created a great show.
I like the show Orville. It’s entertainment without a lot of violence.
The Orville is such a great show. It’s funny and wholesome. The cast has great chemistry. I wish we had more shows like this to get us through all the chaos these days.
I don’t think it needs to be renewed at all. I quit in Season 2. So disappointed in the plots.
By changing from comedy to drama, The Orville has shot itself in the foot. I recorded the first two seasons and enjoy them over and over again. The last episode really sucked. We have enough violence and cruelty on tv. We need a place free of a police state. You blew it with the last episode. Also, Rob Lowe was terrific and should return occasionally.
“Allows more freedom” . Let’s hope that doesn’t mean they screwed with a winning formula.
Love love love The Orville!!
Orville is one of the best shows ever! So funny…it surprises me on …every show!!
Love this show and I am excited to see how they are going to take it now that it’s Hulu
I love this show. I’m so excited to see new season! Yay hulu that is my preferred streaming service.
Yep
Should keeped it on Fox becouse some of the people can’t afford Hulu I really like the show but I can’t afford it right now
I’m generally not a fan of so many paywall shows, but I think we are still in transition on how platforms work as everyone is trying to get in on it. I already dumped cable and pay less for a couple streaming services (including Amazon prime, which I had anyway).
That being said, I wish they would focus on what they’ve already filmed and do the post production on that rather than waiting for reshooting to resume.
Thanks Mike I agree with you. Horrible making fun of Star Trek terrible William Shartner should very upset by this syfy king of it all.