If You Liked The Orville, Watch These Next
Finished The Orville (2017) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Orville, most of them are drama, comedy, sci-fi & fantasy.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Expanse(2015)
8.1DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
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2.Avenue 5(2020)
6.6ComedySci-Fi & FantasyAlso comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.
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3.Star Trek: Lower Decks(2020)
7.6Sci-Fi & FantasyAnimationComedyAlso sci-fi & fantasy and comedy
The lives of the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.
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4.Red vs. Blue(2003)
7.5AnimationComedySci-Fi & FantasyAlso comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
In the distant future, two groups of soldiers battle for control of the least desirable piece of real estate in the known universe: a box canyon in the middle of nowhere.
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5.Invasion(2021)
7.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.
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6.Another Life(2019)
6.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
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7.Raised by Wolves(2020)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
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8.Star Trek: Picard(2020)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
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9.Tripping the Rift(2004)
6.5AnimationComedySci-Fi & FantasyAlso comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
The continuing comic saga of a bizarre gang of misfits who live, work and play on the starship Jupiter 42, which is controlled by a neurotic A.I. known as Spaceship Bob. The ethically-challenged shipmates travel through the galaxy taking on one epic adventure at a time all while looking to make a quick buck and avoid…
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10.Battlestar Galactica(2004)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
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11.Dark Matter(2015)
6.8Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to…
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12.Falling Skies(2011)
7.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen…
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13.Lexx(1997)
7.0ComedyDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso comedy and drama
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the…
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14.Space Force(2020)
6.5ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.
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15.Outcasts(2011)
6.3DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Seeking the chance to build a better future, a group of courageous pioneers departs Earth for Carpathia, a newly discovered planet in a distant galaxy. Led by President Richard Tate and his core team of Stella, Cass and Fleur, the pioneers settle in the town of Forthaven, creating a society there alongside…
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16.Star Trek: Discovery(2017)
6.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
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17.Travelers(2016)
7.6DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible…
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18.Solar Opposites(2020)
7.8ComedyAnimationSci-Fi & FantasyAlso comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
A family of aliens from a much better world must take refuge in middle America after the destruction of their planet. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth.
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19.Alien: Earth(2025)
7.3Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.
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20.Defiance(2013)
6.8DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
In the near future, planet Earth is permanently altered following the sudden—and tumultuous—arrival of seven unique alien races. In the boom-town of Defiance, the newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully.
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