‘Orange is the New Black’ Gets a Second Season Order

Jason Biggs and Taylor Schilling in Orange is the New Black
Jason Biggs and Taylor Schilling in ‘Orange is the New Black’ (Photo credit: Barbara Nitke for Netflix )

Season one of Orange is the New Black hasn’t even aired yet, however, Netflix is ready to take a chance and move forward on a season two. The 13-episode first season will air on July 11, 2013 with all 13 episodes available as of 12:01am PDT. Filming on season two will take place later this year.

Taylor Schilling stars in the comedy/drama produced by Lionsgate Television and based on Piper Kerman’s memoir. Commenting on the renewal, creator/executive producer Jenji Kohan said, “I am thrilled that Netflix has extended my sentence.”

“Jenji and her team have produced a phenomenal series and we’re eager to get a second season to our viewers,” added Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Content at Netflix.

The Plot:

Orange is the New Black follows engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman (Schilling), whose decade-old relationship with drug runner Alex (Laura Prepon) results in her arrest and 15-month-long detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper must trade her comfortable New York life with fiancé Larry (Jason Biggs) for an orange prison jumpsuit and a baffling prison culture where she is forced to question everything she believes and form unexpected new alliances with a group of eccentric and outspoken inmates.