The Orville Finally Has a Season 3 Premiere Date on Its New Hulu Home

The excellent news: The Orville lastly has a return date! The dangerous information: it’s not till March 2022. For those that’d virtually forgotten concerning the Seth MacFarlane sci-fi sequence—a Star Trek riff that ended up carving out its personal nook of the lovable-weirdos-in-space style—nicely, that’s not too stunning; the season two finale was all the way in which again in April 2019. In the interim, the present jumped from Fox to Hulu, after which the pandemic arrived to exponentially decelerate the manufacturing course of. But lastly, a date announcement, together with this transient teaser!

Notable: Hulu is billing this as The Orville: New Horizons, and it will likely be a weekly launch somewhat than a binge drop; the primary episode of season three will premiere Thursday, March 10, 2022. Despite that title alteration, it doesn’t sound just like the present will probably be present process any drastic adjustments; Hulu’s description feels like it is going to carry on retaining on at its new dwelling: “Seth MacFarlane’s epic space adventure series The Orville returns exclusively as a Hulu original series. Set 400 years in the future, The Orville: New Horizons finds the crew of the U.S.S. Orville continuing their mission of exploration, as they navigate both the mysteries of the universe and the complexities of their own interpersonal relationships.”

The forged appears to be like to be the identical, too, with MacFarlane (Captain Ed Mercer), Adrianne Palicki (Commander Kelly Grayson), Penny Johnson Jerald (Dr. Claire Finn), Scott Grimes (Lt. Gordon Molloy), Peter Macon (Lt. Commander Bortus), J. Lee (Lt. Commander John LaMarr), Mark Jackson (Isaac the robotic), Chad L. Coleman (Klyden), Jessica Szohr (Lt. Talla Keyali). Hulu listed one new title: Anne Winters, who’ll play a new series regular named Charly Burke. Orville followers will even recall the present incorporates a character voiced by Norm Macdonald, a gelatinous alien named Lieutenant Yaphit; thus far there’s no phrase on how the present would possibly pay tribute to the late actor.

MacFarlane himself shared the teaser on Twitter however with out way more to go on; presumably, we’ll be getting an precise trailer and extra particulars as the discharge date approaches. We’ll let extra as we all know it.

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