The Orville
TV series by Seth MacFarlane
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| August 8 2024 | Scott Grimes announces that Season 4 of The Orville will begin pre-production in early 2025. |
| January 5 2024 | Seth MacFarlane confirms the series has not been canceled by Hulu, but provides no definitive details about its future. |
| November 29 2023 | Adrianne Palicki comments on potential fourth season talks and indicates she will not return to the series. |
| August 26 2022 | The Orville: New Horizons was the fourth most in-demand streaming show in the United States according to Parrot Analytics. |
| July 19 2022 | Seth MacFarlane releases 'Sympathy for the Devil' as a novelization, adapting an unfilmed episode of The Orville's third season due to pandemic-related delays. The audiobook is narrated by Bruce Boxleitner. |
| June 2 2022 | The third season, titled 'The Orville: New Horizons', premiered on Hulu after being originally scheduled for late 2020. |
| August 2021 | Third season production completed, with MacFarlane and Jon Cassar as the only directors. |
| January 19 2021 | La-La Land Records released the official soundtrack album for the second season of The Orville. |
| September 2 2020 | Dark Horse Comics released the first issue of 'Launch Day' comic book miniseries for The Orville: Season 2.5. |
| December 10 2019 | Season 2 of The Orville was released on DVD. |
| November 2019 | Anne Winters was cast as a regular for season three of The Orville. |
| October 2019 | Filming for the third season began but was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 17 2019 | Dark Horse Comics released the first issue of 'New Beginnings' comic book miniseries set between the first and second seasons of The Orville. |
| April 25 2019 | Final episode of Season 2 'The Road Not Taken' aired, concluding the season on Fox. |
| April 11 2019 | Season 2 mid-season premiere 'Blood of Patriots' was broadcast, returning after a winter hiatus. |
| January 22 2019 | La-La Land Records released the official soundtrack album for the first season of The Orville. |
| December 2018 | California Film Commission approves $15.8 million in tax credits for a potential third season of the show. |
| December 30 2018 | The second season of The Orville premiered on Fox. |
| December 30 2018 | First episode of Season 2 'Ja'loja' aired on Fox, continuing the science fiction comedy-drama series created by Seth MacFarlane. |
| December 11 2018 | Season 1 of The Orville was released on DVD. |
| October 2018 | Second season production concluded, having spent $69.2 million. |
| July 22 2018 | Fox released the trailer for the second season of The Orville at San Diego Comic-Con, and sponsored Orville-themed pedi-cabs for convention attendees. |
| July 21 2018 | Producer David Goodman moderated a Q&A panel at Comic-Con with cast members Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Brannon Braga, and Jon Cassar. |
| February 2018 | Filming for the second season began. |
| February 2018 | Jessica Szohr was cast as a regular for season two of The Orville, and Chris Johnson was cast in a recurring role. |
| November 2 2017 | Fox renewed The Orville for a second season after its initial run during the 2017-18 television season. |
| September 11 2017 | The series became available for streaming on Hulu the day after its television premiere. |
| September 10 2017 | The Orville premiered on Fox, marking the debut of Seth MacFarlane's science fiction comedy drama television series about the crew of the starship USS Orville. |
| August 2017 | First season production wrapped, with a total of $56.2 million spent in California. |
| July 2017 | At San Diego Comic-Con, Seth MacFarlane announced that Charlize Theron would guest-star in the fifth episode 'Pria'. |
| July 22 2017 | Fox held a promotional panel at San Diego Comic-Con for The Orville, featuring the full main cast and producers David A. Goodman and Brannon Braga. Fox also created an Orville Space Training Station at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront with a 'Cryopreservation program' for fans. |
| May 15 2017 | Fox Broadcasting Company released the first trailer for The Orville, introducing the series alongside other new television shows like The Gifted and Ghosted. |
| April 2017 | Chad L. Coleman was added as a series regular, and Larry Joe Campbell was cast in a recurring role for The Orville. |
| March 2017 | Filming of subsequent episodes for the first season began. |
| 2016 | Production on the pilot episode began in late 2016. |
| December 2016 | Mark Jackson was added to the cast of The Orville. |
| October 2016 | Halston Sage and Penny Johnson Jerald joined the cast of The Orville. |
| August 2016 | Jon Favreau signed on to direct the pilot episode of The Orville. |
| August 2016 | Peter Macon and J. Lee were cast as series regulars for The Orville. |
| July 2016 | Seth MacFarlane's role as Ed Mercer was revealed, with Adrianne Palicki cast as Kelly Grayson and Scott Grimes as Gordon Malloy for The Orville. |
| May 2016 | Fox gives MacFarlane a 13-episode order for The Orville, marking his first live-action television series. |
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