Orange Is the New Black season 5 release date announced, teaser trailer released
The Litchfield Penitentiary inmates are returning this summer
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Your support makes all the difference.Netflix has confirmed when Orange Is the New Black fans can expect the Litchfield Penitentiary inmates to return.
The streaming service has lined up season five of the popular original property for this coming summer with episodes set to drop on 9 June.
It announced the news by releasing a short teaser trailer showing several of the comedy drama's popular characters, including Piper (Taylor Schilling), Alex (Laura Prepon), Red (Kate Mulgrew), Taystee (Danielle Brooks), Gloria (Selenis Leyva), and Nicky (Natasha Lyonne).
The clip ends in the same way as season four - Daya (Dascha Polanco) holding a gun at one of the jail's new corrections officers during a prison riot.
It was recently reported that season five will take place over the course of just three days.
Since its inception in 2013, Orange Is the New Black has become one of Netflix's most popular shows; earlier this month, it picked up its third consecutive Best Ensemble in a Comedy award at the Screen Actors Guild awards. One of Netflix's other original shows, House of Cards, will return for its fifth season in May while the return date of Stranger Things season two was announced during the Super Bowl on Sunday (6 February).
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