Say what you want about Seth MacFarlane, but the dude found a good thing and has been clinging on to it for a solid decade-and-a-bit now.
The creator of Family Guy and American Dad! and star of the entirely good Ted and objectively terrible A Million Ways To Die In The West is continuing his long-standing working relationship with the Fox Network with a freshly announced venture that will boldly go where no man has gone before.
The network has greenlit and give a 13 episode straight-to-series order (meaning it’s actually going to happen, rather than pilot deals that work largely on spec and hope) for a show set in the deep reaches of outer space.
The show, an hour-long “dramedy,” will be developed and created by MacFarlane, who will also join the cast of the show as one of its principal stars.
The as-yet unnamed series will revolve around a rag-tag group of space explorers navigating the outer reaches of space aboard a rickety spaceship that might lack in looks and reliability, but makes up for that in rust and rogue emissions.
“Set 300 years in the future, the show 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.”
Who’s to say what any of this will actually look like when it eventually hits screens – whether it will be an odd critical hit, or more like a half-baked attempt at repurposing Red Dwarf yet again – but one thing is for absolute certain, it’s a damned good time to be Seth MacFarlane right now.
The project is scheduled to be unveiled during Fox’s 2017-18 season.
Source: Uproxx.
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