Orange Is the New Black (sometimes abbreviated to OITNB) is an
American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for
Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the
New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences
at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. Produced by Tilted
Productions in association with Lionsgate Television, Orange Is the
New Black premiered on Netflix on July 11, 2013. In February 2016, the
series was renewed for a fifth, sixth, and seventh season. Its seventh
and final season was released on July 26, 2019.Orange Is the New Black
is Netflix's most-watched original series. It was widely acclaimed
throughout its run, and has received many accolades. For its first
season, the series garnered 12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations,
including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy
Series, and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, winning three.
A new Emmy rule in 2015 forced the series to change categories from
comedy to drama. For its second season, the series received four Emmy
nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, and Uzo Aduba won for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Orange Is the New
Black is the first series to score Emmy nominations in both comedy and
drama categories. The series has also received six Golden Globe Award
nominations, six Writers Guild of America Award nominations, a
Producers Guild of America Award, an American Film Institute award,
and a Peabody Award.The series begins revolving around Piper Chapman
(Taylor Schilling), a woman in her thirties living in New York City
who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a
minimum-security women's federal prison in upstate New York. Chapman
was convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for her
girlfriend Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), an international drug smuggler.
The offense had occurred 10 years before the start of the series and
in that time Chapman had moved on to a quiet, law-abiding life among
New York's upper middle class. Her sudden and unexpected indictment
disrupts her relationships with her fiancé, family and friends. In
prison, Chapman is reunited with Vause (who named Chapman in her
trial, resulting in Chapman's arrest), and they re-examine their
relationship. Simultaneously, Chapman, along with the other inmates,
attempt to grapple with prison's numerous, inherent struggles.
Episodes often feature flashbacks of significant events from various
inmates' and prison guards' pasts. These flashbacks typically depict
how an inmate came to be in prison or develop a character's backstory.
The prison is initially operated by the "Federal Department of
Corrections" (a fictional version of the Federal Bureau of Prisons),
and was in a later season acquired by the Management & Correction
Corporation (MCC), a private prison company.
American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for
Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the
New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences
at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. Produced by Tilted
Productions in association with Lionsgate Television, Orange Is the
New Black premiered on Netflix on July 11, 2013. In February 2016, the
series was renewed for a fifth, sixth, and seventh season. Its seventh
and final season was released on July 26, 2019.Orange Is the New Black
is Netflix's most-watched original series. It was widely acclaimed
throughout its run, and has received many accolades. For its first
season, the series garnered 12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations,
including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy
Series, and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, winning three.
A new Emmy rule in 2015 forced the series to change categories from
comedy to drama. For its second season, the series received four Emmy
nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, and Uzo Aduba won for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Orange Is the New
Black is the first series to score Emmy nominations in both comedy and
drama categories. The series has also received six Golden Globe Award
nominations, six Writers Guild of America Award nominations, a
Producers Guild of America Award, an American Film Institute award,
and a Peabody Award.The series begins revolving around Piper Chapman
(Taylor Schilling), a woman in her thirties living in New York City
who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a
minimum-security women's federal prison in upstate New York. Chapman
was convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for her
girlfriend Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), an international drug smuggler.
The offense had occurred 10 years before the start of the series and
in that time Chapman had moved on to a quiet, law-abiding life among
New York's upper middle class. Her sudden and unexpected indictment
disrupts her relationships with her fiancé, family and friends. In
prison, Chapman is reunited with Vause (who named Chapman in her
trial, resulting in Chapman's arrest), and they re-examine their
relationship. Simultaneously, Chapman, along with the other inmates,
attempt to grapple with prison's numerous, inherent struggles.
Episodes often feature flashbacks of significant events from various
inmates' and prison guards' pasts. These flashbacks typically depict
how an inmate came to be in prison or develop a character's backstory.
The prison is initially operated by the "Federal Department of
Corrections" (a fictional version of the Federal Bureau of Prisons),
and was in a later season acquired by the Management & Correction
Corporation (MCC), a private prison company.
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