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 […]
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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 […]
Everything You Need to Watch on TV This Fall—From ‘Orville’ to ‘Punisher’
Clear out the DVR and launch the Apple TV, here’s what you need to watch in the next few months. https://media.wired.com/photos/59ca7ed142102477063607f4/master/pass/ShesGottaHaveIt-HP.jpg Feed: All Latest
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 […]