The Orville: Seth MacFarlane Had Some Choice Words About Working With Fox

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With Seth MacFarlane's The Orville finally back after a 3-year hiatus, it feels like an old friend has returned. But as with all things, there have been some changes over time. One of the main differences with the series is its new home at Hulu after debuting on the Fox network, and it seems as though that original placement was the source of some vexation for the mind behind the show.

MacFarlane, the creator of sci-fi homage series The Orville along with long-running animated hits Family Guy and American Dad, recently spoke about his time with Fox over the years, and he didn't mince words. While the beloved television personality has enjoyed a long-time partnership with the network, it appears that he holds some pretty candid opinions concerning how it does things. As an unambiguously left-leaning person, MacFarlane understandably tends to clash with Fox ideologically from time to time, so there would obviously be some difficult ideas to reconcile with.

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At the 13th annual Produced By conference, MacFarlane offered some candid views on his working relationship with Fox, which he still partners with outside of his work on The Orville. «It's an incredibly complicated relationship that I have with that company,» he explained. «There are people there with whom I have great personal relationships. There are people that I like a lot. But it is a different company than it was when I started. It's very difficult for me to reconcile exactly what my relationship is with that company right now. I, like many people, have a lot of issues and a lot of objections to their practices. Certainly, the news division and the entertainment division operate relatively independently of each other, and