Ahead of Season 6, Virgin River has been renewed for a seventh season on Netflix and in turn, breaking a major record. Deadline reports that the renewal has made the romantic drama the streamer’s longest-running current original scripted series and the longest-running English-language drama series. The long run matches comedy Grace and Frankie and dramedy Orange is the New Black. Additionally, Virgin River has now beaten House of Cards and The Crown, both of which ran for six seasons.
While Spanish teen drama Elite does pull ahead with its number of seasons since it has eight, Virgin River’s seven seasons will bring the total number of episodes to 74, while Elite has just 64. Based on the novels of the same name by Robyn Carr, Virgin River centers on Melinda “Mel” Monroe, who answers an ad to work as a midwife and nurse practitioner in a remote Northern Californian town,
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