This show is going to make it. No politics, solid old time Star Trek type science fiction. Episode 2 was solid .
The show's already a hit and FOX isn't being shameless about it, advertising that over 16 million people tuned in over the past week to watch the first episode. In fact, last night for the second episode, many people (myself included) were anxiously waiting for football to finish so we could finally watch the show. You couldn't believe how many comments were posted online by people complaining how the final 14 minutes of football pushed back The Orville by nearly 50 minutes. The good news though is that the entire episode did air and FOX is repeating it this Saturday night (Sept. 23) on its sister channel FX.
CBS and Moonves must be quaking in their boots. What did they spend? $8.5 million per episode on Discovery, and pretty much 90% of Trek fans are ticked off by what they've seen so far. Guess the Trek crowd migrated to Orville lol. Someone needs to teach Moonves that he shouldn't have fired Fuller and started micro-managing Discovery to appeal to the 18-29 demo.
By the way, I just watched a video online comparing the show to Discovery. There's a rumor that Orville was actually pitched to CBS by MacFarlane and Braga years ago, but as usual, Moonves turned it down. So instead, Seth went to FOX instead, since he had an existing relationship with them through Family Guy and his other projects, and their response was "So basically it's Star Trek except without the name, right? Let's do it." Now that's a positive attitude right there.