After his last animated creation, Bordertown, flopped, Family Guy creator and all around geek Seth MacFarlane has decided to shift gears and go to live-action for his next project.
The Orville now airs on Thursdays on Fox, in back of Gotham, but I don't expect that to last very long, not when you factor in shows like Scandal and Arrow, the latter of which begins its new season in 2 weeks. Fox wisely premiered Orville on a Sunday, 2 weeks before CBS' much-hyped launch of Star Trek: Discovery. It happens that the Trek franchise, 51 years strong and counting, is being lampooned here.
A more detailed review of The Orville is over at my other blog, The Land of Whatever. For now, sample this scene, as Admiral Halsey (Legends of Tomorrow's Victor Garber) informs Captain Ed Mercer (MacFarlane) that his ex, Kelly (Adrianne Palicki) is joining his crew......
See, MacFarlane is proving he doesn't have to be typecast as a buffoon......
3 comments:
Seth MacFarlane served as the executive producer of a short lived live action sitcom "The Winner" starring Rob Cordry back in 2007. Also, "Bordertown" wasn't Seth's creation; the series was created by one of Family Guy's writers, Mark Hentemann. Seth merely used his stroke at FOX to help get the show on the air.
I can't comment on The Orville because I haven't seen it yet. The reviews that I've read of the show haven't been great, though.
Like I mentioned on The Land of Whatever:
Because Seth MacFalrlane is at the helm, FOX has been promoting The Orville as if it were a spoof of sci-fi conventions a la Spaceballs, but in actuality it's more or less a straightforward love letter to the likes of Star Trek, peppered with the occasional Family Guy style jokes. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to tread any ground that Gene Roddenberry hasn't already tackled, and done better. So The Orville's not funny enough to be a comedy, not serious enough to be a drama, not epic or thought-provoking enough to be science fiction...what is it?
@Goldstar: Thanks for clarifying in re.: Bordertown. I knew it was from MacFarlane's camp, if not MacFarlane himself.
MacFarlane also served as EP for Seth Green's ill-fated "Dads" a few years back. Another flop.
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