Ratings: Orville Steady With Season Finale, Gotham Ends Fall on Low Note

Fox’s The Orville ended its freshman mission on Thursday night with 3.54 million total viewers and a 0.9 demo rating, holding steady week-to-week. The Seth MacFarlane-captained space dramedy has already been renewed for Season 2. RELATED2018 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble? Opening Fox’s night, Gotham (2.56 mil/0.8) dipped […]

The Orville Sneak Peek: Yaphit Accuses the Captain of Gelatinous Racism

Ed’s reasons for passing Yaphit over for a promotion don’t gel at all with The Orville‘s engineer, as seen in this sneak peek from the already renewed Fox’s drama’s penultimate Season 1 episode. RELATED2018 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble? In “New Dimensions” (airing tonight at 9/8c, on Fox), […]

Daily Podcast: The Best TV Shows Of The Past 5 Years, Star Wars, Twilight Zone, Shazam, Orville, Pixar, Fast & Furious

On the November 2, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Jacob Hall and Chris Evangelista for the latest news, including a Twilight Zone reboot from Jordan Peele, Shazam casting, The Orville get a second season, the future of Star Wars films, and some theme park news including Fast and Furious: Supercharged […]

The Orville Renewed for Season 2

Seth MacFarlane’s mission into outer space just got extended: Fox has renewed the sci-fi series The Orville for a second season. RELATED2018 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble? The Orville is this fall’s first freshman series on the Big 5 broadcast networks to earn a second-season renewal. (CBS gave its Big […]

Charlize Theron Boards The Orville (and Romances Ed!) — Watch a Sneak Peek

The Orville‘s crew has seen a lot of stars in their explorations of outer space… but maybe never one this big before. Oscar winner Charlize Theron guest-stars on next Thursday’s episode (Fox, 9/8c) as Pria, the captain of a stranded spaceship who gets rescued by Ed (Seth MacFarlane) and his shipmates. And in the sneak […]

Ratings: The Orville Drops in Thursday Debut, Gotham Ticks Down With Move

Fox’s The Orville landed in its regular Thursday time slot with a hair over 4 million total viewers and a 1.1 rating, expectedly down — 40 and 50 percent — from its second NFL-boosted Sunday showcase. Seth MacFarlane’s space dramedy thus veritably matched Pitch‘s performance (4.2 mil/1.1) in the time slot a year ago. RELATEDGotham […]

Quotes of the Week: The Orville, BoJack, You're the Worst, Insecure and More

The 69th Emmy Awards are just hours away, and the anticipation has really gotten us in the accolade-giving spirit. The result? We’ve rounded up 15 of our favorite sound bites from the last week of television. This time around, we’ve got a disheartening diet tip on BoJack Horseman, bitter resentment toward an Orville ex, Insecure‘s epic monologue […]

Sunday Ratings: The Orville Launches Well With NFL Lead-In

Sunday’s Hurricane Irma-delayed Nielsen numbers are in, and Fox’s The Orville premiered to 7.3 million total viewers and a 2.8 demo rating (per fast nationals and pending additional adjustment due to Irma news coverage), up from what Son of Zorn debuted to a year ago leading out of football (6 mil/2.4) and marking the highest-rated […]

‘The Orville’ Reviews: Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Star Trek’-Inspired Show Isn’t a Comedy After All

With its Star Trek-inspired designs, constant quipping, and creator/star Seth MacFarlane dropping one-liners left and right throughout its trailers, it’s no wonder we all thought Fox’s new TV series The Orville was a sci-fi comedy. But reviews for the upcoming series are in, and they come with a warning: the show isn’t a comedy, but an hour-long drama […]