Seth MacFarlane says a fourth season of The Orville has already been written

With the new season of Ted on the way and the 24th season of Family Guy continuing Stewie’s quarter-century-long mission to kill Lois, Seth MacFarlane probably doesn’t need another job. After all, we’re only one month away from celebrating the one-year anniversary of his ninth studio album, Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements. Nevertheless, the always-working MacFarlane provided an update on his long-dormant Star Trek riff, The Orville, which last charted the cosmos in 2022. Per The Hollywood Reporter, which spoke to the actor, writer, director, animator, and song-and-dance man on the red carpet for Ted season two, MacFarlane is looking to jump into the captain’s chair again. “Season four is written,” he says. “It’s just a question of when we have the time to produce it.” MacFarlane says that “10 scripts are done,” but due to all those aforementioned commitments, MacFarlane admits, “I’m the problem.” MacFarlane says he has to wait until he can make The Orville his year, “with all the other stuff we have in the works. But we can hit the ground running when it happens.”