“The Orville” Renewed For Season 3

Scott Grimes, Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, J. Lee, and Halston Sage in The Orville

For has renewed its sci-fi adventure series The Orville for a third season. 

The renewal was expected as the show has been doing well, averaging 3.16 million total live viewers and a 0.75 in the 18-49 demographic.

The series starring and exec-produced by Seth MacFarlane is set 400 years in the future, and follows The USS Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship manned with a crew of both humans and aliens. 

The series also stars, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J Lee, Mark Jackson, Chad L. Coleman and Jessica Szohr. It was created and written by MacFarlane, who also executive produces alongside Brannon Braga, David A. Goodman, Jason Clark and Jon Cassar.