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Watch: The Gifted, The Orville lead new FOX shows

It’s May so that means the networks are rolling out the trailers for all of their upcoming shows ahead of the new season.

FOX has unveiled trailers for five of its new shows including Seth MacFarlane’s Star Trek parody The Orville, new Marvel series The Gifted and medical drama The Resident.

You can watch the trailers for all of the shows and find out more about them below. Then when you’re done, head to the bottom of the page to vote in our poll and tell us which one you’re most looking forward to.

Ghosted

Starring Craig Robinson (The Office) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), Ghosted is a single-camera, action-comedy about the unlikely partnership between two down-on-their-luck polar opposites tasked with an even more unlikely mission: saving the human race from aliens.

Leroy Wright (Robinson) is a cynical skeptic and former missing persons detective, who, if weā€™re speaking frankly, thinks that ā€œaliensā€ are a big ole bunch of B.S. and that people who believe in them are certifiably nuts…. People like Max Jennifer (Scott). Max is a genius ā€œtrue believerā€ in the paranormal whoā€™s convinced his wife was abducted by aliens. At low points in their lives, both Leroy and Max are recruited by Captain Ava Lafrey (Ally Walker, Sons of Anarchy), a take-no-prisoners, former Air Force test pilot and head of the Bureau Underground, a secret government organization investigating paranormal cases. Lafrey, along with her staff ā€“ Barry Shaw (Adeel Akhtar, Unforgotten), an overly friendly forensic pathologist, and Delilah Ward, a highly opinionated tech specialist ā€“ will support Leroy and Max in their quest for answers. Now, this heroic group of underdogs will look into ā€œunexplainedā€ activity in Los Angeles that often leads them to scary, thrilling and hilarious places, as they attempt to uncover the truth and keep the earth rotating on its axis for at least one more day.

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The Gifted

Action-adventure family drama The Gifted, from Marvel, tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Written by Matt Nix (APB, Burn Notice), directed by Bryan Singer (the X-Men franchise) and executive-produced by Nix, Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner (X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Wolverine), Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past), Jeph Loeb (Marvelā€™s Daredevil, Marvelā€™s Jessica Jones) and Jim Chory (Marvelā€™s Daredevil, Marvelā€™s Jessica Jones), the series stars Stephen Moyer (Shots Fired, True Blood) and Amy Acker (Person of Interest).

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LA to Vegas

From executive producers Will Ferrell (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy), Adam McKay (The Big Short), Lon Zimmet (Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt) and Steve Levitan (Modern Family), LA to Vegas is a single-camera ensemble comedy about an airline crew and the eccentric passengers who, every weekend, take the roundtrip flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas with one goal in mind ā€“ to come back a winner.

Welcome to Jackpot Airlines, a budget carrier whose junket flight from LA to Vegas and back again, is filled with dreamers looking for that big score. Holding (or, more to the point, barely holding) these voyages together is Ronnie (Kim Matula, UnREAL), a long-suffering flight attendant who tries to keep her cool (oftentimes, with little success) whether sheā€™s dealing with a bi-polar bride-to-be or the dead body in Row 13. Managing the revolving door of bachelor parties and 21st birthdays gets even trickier when Ronnie develops a ā€œlocation-shipā€ with Colin (Ed Weeks, The Mindy Project), a regular passenger and an economics professor, whose son and soon-to-be ex-wife live in Vegas. Further complicating her job every weekend is Captain Dave (Dylan McDermott, The Practice), the narcissistic pilot whose fighter-pilot dreams never quite worked out; Bernard (Nathan Lee Graham, The Comeback), the always-positive career flight attendant who thinks thereā€™s no flight more magical than the LA-to-Vegas; Artem (Peter Stormare, The Big Lebowski), the genial professional gambler who serves as the planeā€™s resident (but unofficial) bookie; and Nichole (Olivia Macklin, The Young Pope), the sweet-natured, part-time stripper whoā€™s a lot savvier than people realize. It wonā€™t be easy, but this unlikely group of miscreants and dreamers will eventually go from being strangers on a plane to a supportive, if unconventional, family… from Friday to Sunday… whether they like it or not.

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The Orville

From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, Ted) and directed by Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book, Iron Man), The Orville is a one-hour science fiction series set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory vessel. Its crew, both human and alien, faces the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace… even though some of those people are from other planets, and the workplace is a faster-than-light spaceship.

In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer Ed Mercer (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these ships: the U.S.S. Orville. Determined to prove his worth and write a new chapter in his life, Ed finds that task all the more difficult when the First Officer assigned to his ship is his ex-wife, Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Friday Night Lights).

As the new commander, Ed assembles a qualified, but eccentric crew, including his best friend, Gordon Malloy (Scott Grimes, ER), who has problems with authority, but is the best helmsman in the fleet; Dr. Claire Finn (Penny Johnson Jerald, 24), one of the Unionā€™s most accomplished physicians; Bortus (Peter Macon, Shameless), an alien from a single-sex species; Isaac (Mark Jackson, That Royal Today), an artificial life-form from a machine society that thinks biological life-forms are inferior; navigator John Lamarr (J. Lee, Family Guy), whose casual humor cuts through even the most dire situations; Alara Kitan (Halston Sage, Goosebumps), a young, inexperienced security officer whose home planetā€™s high gravity gives her superior physical strength; and Yaphit, a gelatinous creature voiced by comedian Norm Macdonald (The Middle). Somehow, Ed and Kelly must put the past behind them and, with the help of the crew, navigate fascinating and sometimes dangerous adventures in outer space, as well as the tumultuous and captivating day-to-day personal relationships with their colleagues.

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The Resident

Focusing on three doctors at different stages of their careers and a dedicated young nurse, The Resident is a provocative new medical drama that rips back the curtain to reveal the truth of what really happens, both good and bad, in hospitals across the country.

Meet Dr. Conrad Hawkins (Matt Czuchry, The Good Wife), one of the best doctors at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. Charming, arrogant and only a third-year resident, Conrad does everything in the most unconventional way possible. Along with treating patients, Conrad believes it is his job to burst the illusions of first-year residents, like Dr. Devon Pravesh (Manish Dayal, Halt and Catch Fire), and turn them into real-life doctors. Devon is an innocent idealist, who wears his finely tuned moral compass and passion for science like armor. With Conradā€™s help, however, Devon quickly discovers the reality of his chosen profession is not what he imagined, and that ethical lines are often blurred. Nothing, not even the best medical school in the country, could have prepared him for what heā€™s about to learn. As Devon accompanies Conrad through the hospitalā€™s halls, he meets distinguished chief of surgery Dr. Randolph Bell (Bruce Greenwood, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story), the face of the hospital and its most sought-after doctor, whose diminishing skills, and the errors they cause, are covered with the help of allies under his command; Dr. Mina Okafor (Shaunette RenĆ©e Wilson, Billions), a rising star surgeon from Nigeria who is threatening Bellā€™s dominance, but who also is in the U.S. on a visa; and Nicolette Nevin (Emily VanCamp, Revenge), one of Chastain Memorialā€™s most respected nurses and Conradā€™s on-again-off-again romantic partner. While Conrad opens Devonā€™s eyes to the stark realities of hospital life, the once-optimistic young doctor soon realizes that the practice of medicine is a business, like any other. Not all patients are angels and not all doctors are gods, but one thingā€™s for sure: expectations are meant to be shattered.

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