{"id":519682,"date":"2026-03-05T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519682\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:06:11","slug":"the-orville-season-4-has-been-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519682\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Orville” Season 4 Has Been Written"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Screenshot: Hulu<\/p>\n

Seth MacFarlane\u2019s sci-fi series \u201cThe Orville\u201d returning to screens is mostly a matter of timing, according to the \u201cFamily Guy\u201d creator.<\/p>\n

The multi-hyphenate was out this week promoting the launch of the second season of his \u201cTed\u201d comedy series on Peacock this coming Thursday.<\/p>\n

Speaking with THR<\/a>, MacFarlane confirmed that writing has been completed on ten episodes of a potential fourth season of \u201cThe Orville,\u201d now it\u2019s just a matter of scheduling more than anything:<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be honest with you: Season four is written. It\u2019s just a question of when we have the time to produce it. The ten scripts are done. I\u2019m the problem. It\u2019s [a matter of] when I can make that my year, with all the other stuff we have in the works. But we can hit the ground running when it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series originally launched on FOX, but then moved to Hulu for its third season in 2022. Should a fourth go forward, Hulu is where the show would return and the trade says MacFarlane \u201cconfirmed that Hulu would be ready to move forward on the new season\u201d.<\/p>\n

Set in the 25th century, the series premiered in 2017 and centers on the exploits for the crew of the USS Orville spacecraft. MacFarlane led a cast that included Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, Jessica Szohr and Anne Winters.<\/p>\n

Whilst critical response was tepid at first, the show found its footing midway in its first season and became a series very akin to 1990s sci-fi series like \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d and \u201cseaQuest DSV\u201d in terms of tone and technique \u2013 albeit with more modern visual effects and a slightly bawdier sense of humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: Hulu Seth MacFarlane\u2019s sci-fi series \u201cThe Orville\u201d returning to screens is mostly a matter of timing, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":["post-519682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}