Charlize Theron to guest star on series 'The Orville'

Charlize Theron is set to guest star on Seth MacFarlane's space-set series "The Orville".

The pair have previously worked together on MacFarlane's 2014 big-screen western comedy "A Million Ways to Die in the West", reported

Entertainment Weekly

.

The hour-long Fox series takes place several hundred years from now and chronicles the exploits of the USS starship The Orville, which is captained by

Ed Mercer

(MacFarlane).

Details of Theron's character are being kept under wraps.

The episode will air sometime this autumn.

Theron's last episodic TV appearance was a 2005 cameo on "Arrested Development".