Seth MacFarlane‘s The Orville may be ready to take flight again.

MacFarlane, who is promoting Thursday’s launch for the second season of Peacock series Ted, tells The Hollywood Reporter that the writing team behind The Orville has penned 10 episodes for a potential fourth season. MacFarlane created and stars in the sci-fi series that aired its first two seasons on Fox before moving to Hulu for a third run that debuted in June 2022.

“I will be honest with you: Season four is written,” MacFarlane says of The Orville. “It’s just a question of when we have the time to produce it.

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I’ll believe it when I see it. Paul Cinco had S3 of Schmigadoon written and Apple canned it. Although I’ve previously read that Disney-Hulu are ready when he is.