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The Orville
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American television series
TV series · TMDB
★ 7.6Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.
- Aired
- 2017–2022
- Seasons
- 3 · 36 episodes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Created by
- Seth MacFarlane
- Network
- FOX, Hulu
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Key facts
- Also known as
- The Orville: New Horizons (S3)
- Genre
- Action - adventure Science fiction Comedy-drama
- Created by
- Seth MacFarlane
- Showrunner
- Seth MacFarlane
- Starring
- Seth MacFarlane Adrianne Palicki Penny Johnson Jerald Halston Sage Scott Grimes Peter Macon J. Lee Mark Jackson Jessica Szohr Anne Winters
- Theme music composer
- Bruce Broughton
- Composers
- Bruce Broughton Joel McNeely John Debney Andrew Cottee Kevin Kaska
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Executive producers
- Seth MacFarlane Brannon Braga David A. Goodman Jason Clark Jon Favreau (S1E1) Liz Heldens (S1) Jon Cassar (S2)
- Running time
- 43–45 minutes (S1) 48 minutes (S2) 60–86 minutes (S3)
- Production companies
- Fuzzy Door Productions 20th Television
- Network
- Fox
- Release
- September 10, 2017 ( 2017-09-10 ) –, April 25, 2019 ( 2019-04-25 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Named after
- Orville Wright
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Creator
- Seth MacFarlane
- Director
- Seth MacFarlane
- Composer
- John Debney
- Production company
- 20th Television
- Duration
- 44
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- topic's main category
- Category:The Orville
- Commons category
- The Orville
- list of episodes
- list of The Orville episodes
- production date
- 2017-00-00
- number of seasons
- 3
- original broadcaster
- Hulu
- number of episodes
- 36
- executive producer
- Jason Clarke
- distributed by
- Hulu
- start time
- 2017-09-10
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- The Orville
- social media followers
- 79617
- different from
- Orville
- set in environment
- fictional planet
- set in period
- 25th century
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Encyclopedic overview
The Orville is an American science fiction comedy drama television series created by Seth MacFarlane, who also stars as the protagonist Ed Mercer, an officer in the Planetary Union's line of exploratory space vessels in the 25th century. It was inspired primarily by the original Star Trek and Next Generation programs, and the series pays homage to both. The series also draws inspiration from the Star Wars franchise. Produced by Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Television, it follows the crew of the starship USS Orville on their episodic adventures, as well as a serialized story which develops over the length of the series. According to MacFarlane, the series and the starship are named after the aviation pioneer Orville Wright.
The Orville premiered on September 10, 2017, and ran for two seasons on Fox and became available on streaming service Hulu the following day, followed by a third season exclusively on Hulu. After generally unfavorable reviews for season 1, season 2 onwards received critical acclaim. The show had relatively successful ratings on Fox, becoming the broadcaster's highest-rated Thursday show as well as Fox's "most-viewed debut drama" since 2015.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Orville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.