The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s love-letter homage to Star Trek, is set to return for a third season next year on March 10, 2022. The next season of The Orville will air exclusively on Hulu as a weekly series.
The third season will continue to follow the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville. Cast members Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, and more are set to return.
Hulu has also released a brief teaser trailer announcing the release date for the upcoming season, but not a lot of new footage.
The Orville originally aired on Fox but will move to Hulu next season. This is most likely a result of Disney’s buyout of 20th Century Fox in 2019. Disney owns both Fox properties like The Orville as well as Hulu, so it makes sense Disney will move popular shows to its streaming service.
While many expected The Orville to be a parody of Star Trek from the creator of Family Guy, it has shown itself to be an earnest send-up to the series. And while it’s more humorous than the series that inspired it, MacFarlane has shown that he is interested in tackling the same optimistic tone of space exploration in The Orville.
You can read our series premiere review of The Orville here for more thoughts on the series.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.