The Orville season 3: New Horizons

 

The Orville is a sci-fi series created and starred by Seth MacFarlane in what he defines as his passion project, and where he pays homage to Star Trek and Star Wars, as a self-proclaimed big fan of both sagas.

Seasons one and two aired on Fox in the United States and on cable in Latin America, and while showing the classic MacFarlane humor, they also took over more serious issues. Season 3, dubbed New Horizons, has indeed reached higher places and moved to Hulu, which turned out to be great: got a bigger budget, and less restrictions, which in turn resulted in a much better series, without losing any of its own DNA.

Some topics covered along these 10 episodes were war and abortion (on "Gently Falling Rain"), gender identity (on "A tale of thwo Topas"), a trip to the past ("Twice in a lifetime"), high treason and genocide ("Domino") and even an horror tale ("Shadow Realms").

Is The Orville season 4 going to happen? No official word yet, but Hulu says "the door is always open" and MacFarlane himself says "if there is an audience..." in reference to the show being streamed also on Disney Plus in some countries, mainly the United States. In his own words, "it could be a game changer."

 

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Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman cancelled

 

It was coming and has been confirmed: TheCW cancelled Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow.

On one hand it's surprising, as the network still keeps on the air shows that have been on much lower ratings for years (Dynasty, In The Dark, you name them); on the other hand, it was coming, as TheCW was being sold and it was just a matter of coming to an agreement on which shows were going to continue and which ones were getting the axe.

So now the Arrowverse is down to just The Flash and Superman & Lois

NCIS Hawaii is coming

 

A few weeks ago CBS announced a series order to a new NCIS spinoff, this time named NCIS Hawaii.

The series will have the first actual female lead, played by Vanessa Lachey as Jane Tennant; and she's the first because on NCIS Los Angeles, Hetty Lange is 'Operations chief' and not 'special agent in charge' as Lara Macy (played by Louise Lombard) was on the backdoor pilot back in 2009.

No news yet on when it will start, as it's still in development.

24 Live Another Day

Jack is back. Yes, Jack Bauer is back to our screens, starting on May 5 as a 2 hour special event and lasting 12 episodes of 24: Live Another Day.

(Almost) Four years after the series finale (aired on May 24, 2010), the show returns as a "limited series event", an euphemism made up by tv networks so they do not commit to a show. If it gets good ratings, it'll be back next year; if numbers are not good, everybody moves on and that's it.

Jack Bauer, still a fugitive as he was in the series finale, shows up in London, and it's no surprise Chloe O'Brien is around too.
We will also see the return of William Devane as James Heller, now President of the United States of America, and Kim Raver as Audrey Raines. The main cast is completed by Yvonne Strahovski as Kate Morgan, a CIA field operative; Benjamin Bratt as Steve Navarro, the head of CIA operations who's tracking Jack Bauer; and Tate Donovan as Mark Boudreau, White House Chief of Staff, also the husband of Audrey Raines.

24: Live Another Day will be simulcast in Canada on Global Television Network, and will be broadcasted in some European countries via Sky Networks on May 6, same as in Latin America via Canal Fox.

Last Resort, canceled

 

The critically acclaimed Last Resort, one of the best shows of the current tv season, has just been canceled by ABC today (Friday, November 16).

This has been confirmed by creator Shawn Ryan himself on his Twitter account:

Several causes contributed to the demise: it's an expensive show, oriented to male viewers but aired on a female-oriented night (Thursdays) and too early for this kind of show (8 PM). Also, ratings fell from averaging 7.3 million total viewers and a 1.7 in the demo to 5.8 million viewers and a 1.2.

Although ABC ordered two more scripts of the show, it is highly unlikely that those will be done.