NEW YORK (AP) – Fox TV is calling on superpowers and Seth MacFarlane to draw viewers this fall.
“The Orville,” a new space adventure starring and produced by MacFarlane, is set 400 years in the future. It follows the adventures of an exploratory spaceship.
“This is Seth’s passion project,” Dana Walden, Fox Television Group chairman and CEO, said Monday in a teleconference detailing the network’s 2017-18 schedule.
“The Gifted,” about a suburban couple that discovers their children have mutant powers, also will debut this fall. Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”) and Amy Acker (“Person of Interest”) will star in the drama that Walden called “big, cinematic and commercial” and is Fox’s first with the Marvel factory.
Comedy also is getting the fantasy and sci-fi touch at Fox with “Ghosted.” The sitcom about two partners exploring unexplained phenomena in Los Angeles stars Craig Robinson of “The Office” and Adam Scott of “Parks and Recreation.”