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We're pretty excited that FOX's The Orville is returning for a second season, and even more excited at what creator/star Seth MacFarlane teases in a new featurette. Seth MacFarlane during the 2017 SDCC pressroom for "The Orville"Photo by Mary Anne Butler We've talked a lot about the series, comparing it to the most honest Star Trek-like series since Galaxy Quest, as[...]

Created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, and Matt Weitzman, the nearly twenty-year-old series is executive-produced by co-showrunner Brian Boyle alongside MacFarlane and Weitzman. While the teaser below doesn't yet give us a sense of what exactly the entire season will target topic-wise (probably get an official trailer in two weeks), we can see that at least[...]

Seth MacFarlane, who hosted the Oscars in 2013, has a few choice words on the Academy's own search for a new host for its 2018 awards show given comedian Kevin Hart's abrupt exit. https://youtu.be/Icy2CfEdQAQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Oscars Promo: Seth MacFarlane Is Ready (https://youtu.be/Icy2CfEdQAQ) Hart resigned as host after refusing to apologize for[...]

A funny and touching moment that Carrie Fisher would've loved as Fox's Family Guy says goodbye to Angela - and yes, there are Star Wars references...

Executive producers Jonathan Groff and Kenny Smith have been promoted to co-showrunners for black-ish; and Julie Bean will continue serving as showrunner on Freeform's grown-ish. Barris would join Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy) and Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Crime Story) with major production deals at Netflix; and as broadcast, cable, and streaming services continue competing for exclusive[...]

Suffering from a bout of misrepresentation from network FOX (Seth MacFarlane's words) during season one, the show's star and head writer completely changed our expectations for the show during the pressroom. We were hopeful going into 2018's The Orville pressroom, the gathered stars of Chad Coleman (Klyden), Mark Jackson (Isaac), J[...]

Today during the panel for "Cosmos" in the Indigo Ballroom, FOX and National Geographic shared the first trailer for season 2.

Family Guy showrunners Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin sat down to discuss what fans can expect from the animated sitcom as it begins its 17th season.

Could there be trouble ahead for Family Guy and The Orville? All depends on just how serious Seth MacFarlane is about the tweet he made yesterday about being embarrassed to work for the network in response to a commentary by Fox News host Tucker Carlson This isn't the first time he's criticized the network, but[...]

It will once again be executive-produced, written and directed by Ann Druyan (NASA's Voyager Record, "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," "Contact") and executive-produced by Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, THE ORVILLE, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY), Brannon Braga (THE ORVILLE, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY), who also is co-writer and director of the series, and Jason Clark (THE ORVILLE,[...]

Credit: Fox Twenty-four hours after what can best be described as "Cancel Friday," — where a solid number of series were cancelled by several networks — comes a little positive (thought not surprising) news on the animation front: Fox has renewed Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy for a 16th season (also the show's 20th anniversary) and Loren Bouchard's Bob's Burgers[...]

But on the occasion of their 300th episode, the Seth MacFarlane series enlisted the help of none other than Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings) to analyze the lovable tyrant Over the course of the nearly episode-long session, Stewie – sent to Dr Pritchfield's (McKellen) office after pushing a classmate down the stairs –[...]

COMPLICATIONS — Season:1 — Pictured: Jessica Szohr as Gretchen Polk — (Photo by: Frank Ockenfels 3/USA Network) Jessica Szohr (Shameless) has been cast as a new series regular on Seth MacFarlane's The Orville She will join the Fox series in their upcoming second season to play a new crewmember on the Orville. Szohr recently finished a season-long[...]

It'll be called Cosmos: Possible Worlds, and boy are we excited. Seth MacFarlane during the 2017 SDCC pressroom for "The Orville" Photo by Mary Anne Butler Cosmos: Possible Worlds reunites the executive producer team of Druyan, Braga, and Jason Clark, and Macfarlane for a new series ordered by Fox and National Geographic Yes, Neil deGrasse Tyson is coming back, too. "Cosmos" reboot[...]

With Fox's animated hit series Family Guy about to drop its 300th episode, I'm not sure what's more impressive: that the Seth MacFarlane series bested a ton of early naysayers to achieve such a milestone; or that Adult Swim still rotates the same 26 episodes on a regular basis Seriously, I've had enough of the[...]

Seth MacFarlane really is a giant Star Trek fan Back at SDCC this year, we had the chance to talk with him a bit about his then-upcoming series for FOX, The Orville, and his love of all things Trek He totally and completely sold us on the show in that 20-minute block, as did longtime Trek producer Brannon Braga, stating[...]

Look like Seth MacFarlane and the cast of The Orville are one step closer to completing their own "five-year mission," as Fox has renewed the space comedy-adventure series for a second season The network's decision comes a little more than halfway through the series' initial 13-episode season Fox made the decision to go with a[...]

As the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault allegations continues to grow, two of the biggest questions being asked involve just how long all of this had been allowed to go on for, and just how widely known Weinstein's reputation was across most of the pop culture landscape. One of the earliest to publicly call[...]

First announced in 2011, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's Flintstones reboot was already considered "on life support" just a year later But in a recent Reddit AMA, MacFarlane revealed the reason why he couldn't get the reboot off the ground: he simply couldn't differentiate Fred Flintstone from Family Guy's Peter Griffin. Comment from discussion I am[...]

The other side contains not-Star-Trek-but-mostly-Star-Trek FOX series The Orville from Seth MacFarlane and co. The Orville on the surface is what we keep saying it is, Galaxy Quest-esque in its loving take on all things Trek, but something more serious too I talked about my first impressions of the cast and crew at length in this piece from[...]

Fox will also be hosting panels, screenings and "sneak peeks" at Season 2 of The Exorcist; Seth MacFarlane's The Orville, the 300th episode of Family Guy; and The Gifted. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amy Acker, John Cho, Seth Green, Adrianne Palicki, Stephen Moyer, Jamie Chung, Ben Daniels, Alfonso Herrera, Seth MacFarlane, Zuleikha Robinson, Mitch Pileggi and[...]

We did a quick raise of hands to see who wanted to watch which show based solely on the trailer, and Orville won in a sweep. https://youtu.be/4dxe_ugmIVMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Star Trek: Discovery – First Look Trailer (https://youtu.be/4dxe_ugmIVM) https://youtu.be/Yy9sKeCE8V0 The premise on the surface is very Galaxy Quest: familiar character types like the large serious alien[...]

During the Family Guy panel at San Diego Comic-Con today, creator Seth MacFarlane took a moment to show a new tailer for his upcoming live-action series The Orville The new Fox series stars MacFarlane as Captain Ed Mercer, in charge of his first starship The series also stars Adrianne Palicki, Chad L Coleman, Scott Grimes,[...]

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Family Guy executive producer Steve Callaghan let it be known that West had recorded lines for five episodes...

West's last appearance was in the second-to-last episode of Season 15, which aired on May 21. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane wasted no time expressing his grief over the loss of his colleague and friend, taking to Twitter to post his feelings shortly after West's death: "Family Guy has lost its mayor, and I have lost a[...]

 Oh, did we mention that Star Trek alum Brannon Braga is on board too?  Because he is. The directorial list isn't too shabby either, touting Braga,  James L Connely, Jonathan Frakes, MacFarlane, Robert Duncan McNeill, and freaking Jon Favreau. FOX released this gallery of first look images for the series today too, and it looks pretty great: THE ORVILLE:[...]

Sing might have all of the elements to make a good kids movie but in a year that set the bar so high it is barely passable. Title: Sing Director:

Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man and The Jungle Book, has signed on to direct and executive produce a new hour-long comedic drama created and starring Seth MacFarlane The new series, which is set up at Fox, is set 300 years in the future and in space and follows Orville, a rundown exploratory ship from[...]

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We've talked about the film Ted 2 before. How it is a completely unrealistic and unbelievable movie. Not for the talking bear, that's a given, but for the