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Orange is the New Black is one among Netflix’s oldest and most embellished Netflix Originals. Still, in accordance with a report we revealed earlier this 12 months, it is probably not on Netflix eternally. Here’s why.
Created by Jenji Kohan, the jail comedy-drama sequence picked up a slew of awards throughout its six years for Netflix, producing 91 episodes in whole.
Our analysis means that Orange is the New Black might depart Netflix as quickly as July twenty sixth, 2029.
At the time of publishing, which means you’ve received six years to devour the present, so there’s no hurry.
Why 2029? Well, that date immediately coincides with ten years after the seventh and last season landed on Netflix in 2019.
While that 2029 is at present the elimination date at current, it might not all the time be. As we’ve seen with Lilyhammer (which got here up for elimination in 2022), Netflix managed to strike a brand new deal to maintain the present streaming. It has, nevertheless, chosen to let dozens of different Netflix Originals go.
Its elimination date may be pushed ahead with a brand new season or the rumored “potential sequel.”
Netflix, it’s price noting, didn’t present any remark for our reporting.
Why Orange is the New Black might depart Netflix
It comes all the way down to possession and the way Netflix picks up a few of its exhibits.
As we defined in our massive put up originally of January 2023, a number of exhibits, notably from early on in Netflix’s streaming foray, had been acquired for a set time frame. That means, identical to licensed content material, Netflix holds unique rights to a present for a set time frame following the ultimate season’s addition.
In the case of Orange is the New Black, the last word proprietor of the present is Lionsgate Television. That studio has produced quite a few exhibits for Netflix, together with Dear White People, Selling the OC, and The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale.
Lionsgate iterated that they intend on exploiting the present for fairly a while in an interview in 2018 with then Lionsgate TV Group chairman Kevin Beggs saying, “Keep in mind we own that series and will be distributing it for years to come.”
This reality has been exhibited simply this 12 months with Lionsgate Television saying on January third that they intend to launch an “Orange Is the New Black Complete Series Collection” on boxset on the finish of February 2023 that’ll be unique to Walmart within the United States.
Before we conclude, Jenji Kohan (who works with Netflix underneath an general deal) has a brand new main mission at Netflix, which started filming at the beginning of 2023. We’re referring to The Decameron, helmed by Kathleen Jordan (Kohan serves as govt producer) and is a historic drama set in the course of the Black Death.