When I first heard about this, I thought they were making an unlicensed Galaxy Quest tv show. But after seeing the promos I realized it was a bad version of Other Space which was a bad show in its own right (imho). I guess I was right in my expectations. Which means it will probably be on for several seasons.
Fox premiered Seth MacFarlane’s Star Trek-ish comedy, The Orville, last night. Was it as bad as all the early reviews claimed it would be? It was worse, actually, because nothing truly captures the pain of something actually managing to crawl under the low bar it set for itself. And there’s no reason for The Orville to be that bad, since plenty of other comedies have managed to achieve all the things MacFarlane wants to do, but can’t.