Boldly Going Nowhere was a proposed American

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 television show for Fox

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. Rob McElhenney

Rob McElhenney

Robert Dale "Rob" McElhenney is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Mac on the FX TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...

, Glenn Howerton

Glenn Howerton

Glenn Franklin Howerton III is an American actor of television and film. He is best known for his role as Dennis Reynolds on FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...

, and Charlie Day

Charlie Day

Charles Peckham "Charlie" Day is an American television and film actor, from Middletown, Rhode Island, best known for playing Charlie Kelly on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".-Early life:...

, the producers and stars of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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, created the show along with their Always Sunny writers' assistant Adam Stein. While they did not plan to star in the show, they were the executive producers.

Plot

The show was going to be a mix of comedy and sci-fi about the day to day life of the captain of an intergalactic spaceship.

Production

Currently, the executive producers are doing their work on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia before working on Boldly Going Nowhere. A pilot episode was shot in October 2008, and Fox ordered five additional episodes. However, the pilot is being rewritten and refilmed to include more science fiction elements. The original idea for the show came from an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia writer's assistant, Adam Stein. He will share a created-by credit, although McElhenney, Howerton, and Day will do much of the writing.

Cast

As of October 23, 2008, Ben Koldyke was cast to play the rogue captain Ron Teague while former Arrested Development actor Tony Hale

Tony Hale

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 was been cast as the captain's android companion. Sunny recurring actor David Hornsby

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 was cast as the captain's right-hand man and another recurring actress Artemis Pebdani

Artemis Pebdani

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 was to have played Startemis, the alien communications officer.

Status

On May 15, 2011, Howerton posted on his Twitter

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account that the show had been shelved for now.