Both clips were on youtube, one right after the other
If anything was done, it wasn't by me 
News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
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Both clips were on youtube, one right after the other
If anything was done, it wasn't by me 
I think it's in reference to the fact that Victor Garber's character in the pilot was named Admiral Halsey.
McFarlane Skyped in to NYCC yesterday and indicated that he's optimistic about renewal:
I know very little - okay, I know nothing - about what Fox expects from its shows or what network ratings mean these days, but with that little caveat it sure looks to me like The Orville is in iffy territory.
I know very little - okay, I know nothing - about what Fox expects from its shows or what network ratings mean these days, but with that little caveat it sure looks to me like The Orville is in iffy territory.
Maybe. But I hope it makes it. Just as I hope Discovery makes it.
Both: Warts and All.
Wasn't funny before...isn't funny now.
I think it is pretty funny. Sci-fi fans are a fickle group.
Yeah it is.
The good news - for the moment - is that The Orville is currently Fox's third most successful show with the 18-49 demographic (behind Empire and The Simpsons) and the network's second most successful show in terms of overall viewership (behind Empire).
Complete network chart here.
It's hard for an old guy like me to get my mind around how low viewership numbers are now and what's considered a "success." For example, Discovery is showing to a subscriber base that started out somewhere below two million and that CBS hopes will top 4 million in the near future. None of the current crop of sf or fantasy shows are playing to the kinds of numbers that Trek - or Xena or The X-Files - did in the 1990s and as a result none are truly mass phenomena as those shows were. The Internet connects people and enlarges our sense of ourselves as the audience in a wholly different way than the good old days when my hair was dark and I had all my teeth.
Complete network chart here.
It's hard for an old guy like me to get my mind around how low viewership numbers are now and what's considered a "success." For example, Discovery is showing to a subscriber base that started out somewhere below two million and that CBS hopes will top 4 million in the near future. None of the current crop of sf or fantasy shows are playing to the kinds of numbers that Trek - or Xena or The X-Files - did in the 1990s and as a result none are truly mass phenomena as those shows were. The Internet connects people and enlarges our sense of ourselves as the audience in a wholly different way than the good old days when my hair was dark and I had all my teeth.
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The irony is that there are probably more people watching stuff than ever before...It's hard for an old guy like me to get my mind around how low viewership numbers are now and what's considered a "success." For example, Discovery is showing to a subscriber base that started out somewhere below two million and that CBS hopes will top 4 million in the near future. None of the current crop of sf or fantasy shows are playing to the kinds of numbers that Trek - or Xena or The X-Files - did in the 1990s and as a result none are truly mass phenomena as those shows were. The Internet connects people and enlarges our sense of ourselves as the audience in a wholly different way than the good old days when my hair was dark and I had all my teeth.
...just not at all the same time or the same way.
Seth almost looks like Joey Tribbiani there.
*1999 Lost in Space flashback*
I like Picard in the white, and could totally see him as one of the stuffy Admirals giving orders to Kirk, Janeway, Archer and Sisko as contemporaries in a Fleet during one of the movie era 5 year missions or a reimagined TOS. 
Now thats one elseworlds I would *love* to see.
Now thats one elseworlds I would *love* to see.