Shows Like The Orville
If you liked The Orville (2017), a drama and comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Expanse (2015)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyA 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…
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Avenue 5 (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasy40 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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Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and comedyThe 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…
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Invasion (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaEarth 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…
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Tripping the Rift (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasyThe 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…
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Red vs. Blue (2003)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasyIn 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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Raised by Wolves (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaAfter 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…
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Star Trek: Picard (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaSet 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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Another Life (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaAfter 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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Dark Matter (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaThe 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…
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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
★ 8.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaWhen 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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Lexx (1997)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaA 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…
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Falling Skies (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaFalling 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…
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Space Force (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaA 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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Outcasts (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasySeeking 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…
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Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaFollow 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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Travelers (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyHundreds 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…
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Solar Opposites (2020)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasyA 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…
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Alien: Earth (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaWhen 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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Snowpiercer (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaMore than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of…