Pus he said he likes to take the time to make the episodes so they are up to a level he considers to be good, which is harder to do if they crank out twenty or so episodes a year.
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Are filming times actually more days if the season is shorter? That must just mean they start earlier if true, because Orville stil aired with the standard schedule until it ended, really.
In the case of Orville, the post-production work takes forever to do. The S1 finale for example only finished its post production work something like two weeks prior to airing despite being filmed some point in late spring/early summer, I think.
Although, shows with shorter seasons taking longer to film isn't unheard of, as shows with twenty-plus episodes usually end up spending a ridiculous amount of overtime to stay on track. I know on DS9, it was confirmed each episode took six days to film with production going from 7 AM to 11PM each day. They'd take a day off, and begin the next episode. For twenty-six consecutive weeks.
"It was just like something I saw once. Except that it wasn't."
It's encouraging that you have to perform contortions in order to find ways to criticize the show.
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Don't know how accurate is it but i've read that for your average tv drama, it's generally 1 day (length of day not mentioned) of filming for 5 minutes of air time DS9 eps ran about 45mins inc credits so lets say 42mins so a 6 day per ep you're looing at 6 mins per day.
Yeah, 22 episodes is more doable for something like The Orville since it's episodes are pretty much standalone. Like I said, I was mainly talking about arc heavy shows that trying to do one single continual story through the entire 20+ episode season.
I'd say more if I remembered more about it."It was just like something I saw once. Except that it wasn't."
It's encouraging that you have to perform contortions in order to find ways to criticize the show.
It's bad that the episode where Tuvok crashes a shuttle and finds a bunch of reverse-aging kids sticks in the memory better.
Read: "FOX doesn't want to fully commit to a standard full season..."
I haven't seen this mentioned, and maybe it's already the stuff of legend, but isn't that a giant space testicle with epididymis and vas deferens in The Orville opening credits at 0:39?
Maybe it's just me, but it seems obvious, and just like Seth to include it.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems obvious, and just like Seth to include it.
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I can't remember the last time a MacFarlane show got a 26 episode order.
Better than bottle or clip shows.
Some of the best episodes of television can come from bottle shows.
You're right, though, on clip shows. Nothing good can come of those.
True, but I am preferring the current format. Bottle shows can be good, but can be so limited by budget hamstringing that it can be a missed opportunity as well.
No one does 26 episodes these days. Hell, by the mid 90s I think it was only the Star Trek shows that still did 26, by then 22-24 were becoming the norm on American network TV. Even today, a full season on one of the networks is around 20 or so. No one is definitely doing 26 anymore.
Hell, the only reason Star Trek was doing 26 for as long as it did was because Berman was so obsessed with selling the shows into syndication, but even that doesn't mean the same thing it did twenty years ago.
26 would be possible if the show had a season completed already before it aired and a second season already being written and possibly in post production, that way the series can have a year of playing room to write and produce more episodes and not worrying about getting them completed and aired in time.