FOX has ordered 13 episodes of a new hour-long, live-action comedic drama series created by and set to star Emmy winner Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, Ted). The series is being targeted for the 2017-18 television series, it was announced today by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs, Fox Television Group.
The untitled series is a comedic drama set 300 years in the future. It 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 wrote the first episode and will serve as executive producer. 20th Century Fox Television will produce.
"I've wanted to do something like this show ever since I was a kid, and the timing finally feels right," said MacFarlane. "20th and FOX have been good to me for many years, and of course, Dana and Gary have been fantastic bosses and true pals, so it was a no-brainer to come to them with the project. I think this is gonna be something special."
"For almost two decades, we've enjoyed an incredible collaboration with our partner and friend Seth MacFarlane," added Newman and Walden. "He's one of the smartest, funniest and most talented people we've ever had the pleasure of working with - a great guy who's also had such an impact on both television and popular culture. Seth has on of the most original voices - in every sense of the world - and we've been waiting for him to bring us a project as special as this one. It's classic Seth - fresh and funny, incredibly smart, wickedly subversive and undeniably FOX."
