(Sorry, not sorry for the old yet still valid meme)
I just wanted everyone here to know that !theorville@lemmy.world has been taken over relaunched by me and will become an active community again!
In the name of interplanetary peace, everyone here is invited to sub if you have not already done so and to start posting whatever news/discussion/memes related to The Orville you can think of.
I’m going to add .world’s c/startrek and c/tenforward to the links section of our community and I hope you guys do the same.
Happy Arbor Day! (No, seriously, the 25th of April is actually Arbor Day.)
Admittedly I haven’t exactly been keeping up with the news but it’s been radio silence for a few years now so I am kind of sceptical.
The fact that they didn’t immediately go into season 4 after finishing season 3, which is what most shows do, kind of implied that the studio at least felt done with it. Which personally I think was short-sighted. You don’t leave large gaps like that because it increases the likelihood that the actors are going to go off and get other gigs. It’s not like they’re being paid in the interim so they kind of have to.
The timing was that Disney was in the process of transferring ownership of all the 20th Century Fox media to them right as The Orville would have been gearing up for a fourth season production.
What’s more interesting than them not immediately green-lighting it was that they never ever canceled it. Disney rattled off a list of Fox/Hulu properties they wouldn’t continue and The Orville was suspiciously absent. Seth confirmed later on that he was negotiating to continue the show and told fans to never say die.
And, yeah, the extended production timeline of season 3 is what made Adrianne Palicki (Kelly Grayson) walk. It seems like most, if not all, the rest of the principal cast is still onboard.
She walked because she wansnt wasting her time not getting an income, in the podcast with Michael said, she said it was kinda absurd that there were 6 years in between the 3 seasons, and said other actors or people working on the show was barely making ends meet. She said one of them was living off crackers.
Besides the Disney fcukery, she mentioned Seth wanted was heavily involved most of the writing, which meant slower time to get things out.
Disney wasn’t sure, the showrunners all wanted to keep it going.