Orange Is the New Black‘s sixth season hasn’t even dropped yet, but it’s looking more and more like OITNB Season 7 — the last one on the show’s current renewal deal — may well turn out to be its last bow, as well. Speculation about the fate of the show reached new heights thanks to…
What does Orange is the New Black mean? The most popular show on Netflix is set to return with a highly anticipated Season Four, and OITNB Seasons 5, 6, and 7 were all greenlit by the streaming giant last fall. Its enormous success, though, seems to have obscured some of the show’s origins, and given rise to several questions about its name–and about its…
The latest Orange is the New Black Season Four update focuses on the question of whether Natasha Lyonne–who plays troubled fan-favorite Nicky on the Netflix drama–will return to the show for its forthcoming episodes. Nicky had an especially rough Season Three, and her actual on-screen time was cut short as a result of it. Speculation…
Why was Dasha Polanco arrested? Polanco, best-known for playing Dayanara “Daya” Diaz on Netflix’s hit series Orange is the New Black, found herself in real-life handcuffs following allegations that she beat up a teenaged girl in New York. The alleged altercation took place on the 29th of July, but Polanco was only brought up on charges…
Ever since Taryn Manning–best-known as Pennsatucky on Orange is the New Black–addressed the possibility of Britney Spears joining the cast for Season Four of the Netflix hit, the internet has been awash with “Britney Spears Orange Is The New Black” rumors. The two starred together in the 2002 hit Crossroads, and Manning is now clamoring for a…
WARNING: This post has spoilers in it! If you haven’t finished the third season of Orange is the New Black, you might want to stop reading, potentially. Go finish the season; come back after. The last time we saw Alex Vause, she was in a tight spot indeed. She spent the whole third season of Orange…
Despite a long career in show business, Annie Golden is probably best-known for playing Norma on Orange is the New Black. In case you’ve forgotten (or haven’t yet started in on season three), Norma is the nearly-silent inmate, the one who worked in the kitchen with Red and then stayed on after Red was removed…
The Orange is the New Black opening credits are one of the most frequently lauded aspects of the show’s aesthetic and overall M.O. What they’re made up of, plainly speaking, is a collage of 52 different silent women’s faces, juxtaposed with empty shots of the place we’re about to come to know as Litchfield Correctional Facility, set…
Orange is the New Black season three debuts tomorrow. It should be really good! The internet is excited! Are you guys excited? The reviews are good! It sounds like this will be the richest season yet: the funniest, the darkest, the most complex. All good things! One thing we’ve found out as the cast has made scores of…
(Warning: In case it wasn’t clear, this article will contain Orange is the New Black season three spoilers. OK: you have been warned.) Orange is the New Black had its red carpet debut of the third season premiere over the weekend. After the screening, the principal cast and creator Jenji Kohan stuck around for a…
To the delight of OITNB fans everywhere, Jason Biggs has confirmed that he won’t be returning to the show for its upcoming third season. Biggs’ character, Larry Bloom, has been roundly criticized as the weakest part of an otherwise well-rounded show, and, when Piper broke up with him during bathroom sex in Season Two,…
According to TMZ, Orange Is the New Black actress Taryn Manning was arrested and is facing charges for making criminal threats against former friend turned stalker, Jeanine Heller. Taryn has since taken to Twitter and Pennsatuckily suggests TMZ doesn’t hack a f***ing clue what they’re talking about.
When your crisis manager not only quits on you but torches you publicly you know that things are not going well. And so it is for Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice as her recent Orange Is the New Black related request (gotta read on to understand THAT one) sent Wendy Feldman over the edge. Read the expert’s blistering comments about Giudice!
The producers of the acclaimed Netflix comedrama have just put out a cookbook full of the tastiest prison recipies money can buy. Also, spoilers on season three. Get the dirt; then, see what the spoilers are.
Writer Lauren Morelli is splitting from her husband after realizing she is a lesbian like many of the characters she writes about on Orange is the New Black. Soon after her realization, she fell in love with actress Samira Wiley, who plays Poussey Washington on the hit Netflix series.
And the person or people responsible didn’t stop with Cox. Someone’s been making derogatory transgender-related edits across Wikipedia for awhile. Find out what else has been going on behind the scenes on Capitol Hill.
The 2014 Emmy Awards kicked off last night in Los Angeles as statuettes were handed out for the Creative Arts Emmys, which included a lot of technical categories as well as some rather high-profile awards for guest actors, Best Animated Series and several reality programming categories. Keep reading for a complete list of winners and the rankings so far of which shows and networks have the most bling heading into next week’s Primetime Emmys!
It’s hard to pull off a “pornstache” even if you’re a nice person, but when you the character George Mendez from Orange is the New Black it just makes our awful behavior seem creepier. Thankfully Pablo Schreiber, who plays Mendez, doesn’t wear a mustache in real life, and it makes all the difference.
Both shows are coming off their most popular episodes to date. But fans of either should be ready for tumult ahead. Be warned: There are spoilers inside…
Orange is the New Black is loosely based on the memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, and while there is no Alex Vause in her account, there is a real life inspiration for the fan favorite character played by Laura Prepon. In the memoir she’s called Nora, but the real woman is 51-year-old Catherine Cleary Wolters, who spoke with Vanity Fair in April about being represented on the popular Netflix show.
Netflix’ most popular show employed several bold plot points for its just-released second season. But did it get all its facts straight? Find out how spot on its prisoner furlough subplot was, and whether compassionate release works the same way in real life.
34-year-old Natasha Lyonne is making a big comeback with Orange is the New Black after a Lindsay Lohan/Amanda Bynes/Amy Winehouse-type descent into drug addiction and arrest records. She’s now sober, successful, and seems to generally be in a really good place, but her descent into heroin addiction, health problems, and the seedy side of life has helped inform her role of Nicky in the Netflix original series.
At this point you may be done with the new season of Orange is the New Black star, you may be a few episodes in, or you may still be scoffing at all your friends talking about this Netflix show and secretly wondering if you should check it out. There is so much going down this season, but one thing never changes: OITNB star Taylor Schilling totally looks like Katy Perry.
Orange is the New Black Season 2 is about to be available for binge watching on Netflix (June 6, we can’t wait!) The cast is varied and amazing, and one of the most compelling characters is Sophia Burset, a transgender inmate played by Laverne Cox. In her backstory episode in Season 1, called “Lesbian Request Denied,” which was directed by Jodie Foster, Sophia is seen in her pre-transition phase as a man. It’s not a Louie episode where people playing the same character change willy-nilly, the pre-transition Sophia looks exactly like her. This was possible because actress Laverne Cox has a twin brother, musician M. Lamar.
Pennsatuck yeah!!! Yesterday we shared five hilarious promotional character posters from the upcoming second season of Orange Is The New Black, and today Netflix added to the collection with posters for Litchfield arch rivals Piper and Pennsatucky! Keep reading to see the photos, Piper’s animated poster and our exclusive Pennsatucky animated character poster!
Fans of Orange Is The New Black are in the process of stockpiling supplies for the marathon binge session that begins June 6 when the show returns to Netflix for its second season. But, as the countdown to the OITNB-athon marches on, Netflix continues to share some wonderfully fun teasers for the upcoming season. First we had the preview trailer, and now we have a series of normal (and animated!) character posters for five of the seemingly innumerable fan favorites from the best ensemble cast on television – or the internet – or whatever!
In anticipation for the new season of Orange Is The New Black, here’s a throwback commercial of Constance Shulman (who plays Yoga Jones,) selling mayonnaise. It’s super awesome, but what makes all of this super meta is the fact that Constance Shulman voiced the Patti Mayonnaise character on the long running Nickelodeon cartoon Doug.
Despite reports that her rumored romance with Tom Cruise led to Laura Prepon quitting Orange is the New Black, production sources confirm she will return full-time during the third season.
Get your couch and marathon binge-watching supplies ready because Orange Is the New Black returns for its sophomore season June 6! As an appetizer, Netflix released the first official full-length trailer for the show, and the best prisonsemble cast in television history streaming herstory looks to be in spectacularly rare form!
Overseas tabloid Grazia ran a story claiming that Tom Cruise had taken Orange Is the New Black star Laura Prepon, a fellow Scientologist, on a couple of dates in Los Angeles and that the actor was on “Cloud Nine” and “the happiest he has been since his divorce from Katie Holmes” afterwords. Get the alleged details of the rendezvous and then hear what Cruise’s rep had to say about the report.
Praise the Lord, Pennsatucky’s done gone blonde y’all! Orange Is the New Black actress Taryn Manning, who plays everyone’s favorite meth head turned evangelist Tiffany “Pennsatucky” Doggett on the Netflix original series, shocked fans when she appeared on the red carpet at the International Emmy Awards last night with platinum blonde hair instead of the mousey brown we’re used to seeing on screen. Plus, check out Taryn’s OITNB co-stars Danielle Brooks (Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson) and Jackie Cruz (Flaca) all glammed up for the event. Oh, and in a giggle-inducing fetish moment for me, Pennsatucky celebrates her new Daenerys Targaryen inspired look by posing with Ned Stark!
Laura Prepon’s getting ready to bust out of prison — at least on the hit Netflix series Orange is the New Black. Her character, who was key to Piper’s own story, is set to leave during the second season of the show. Still, there’s reason for fans to be hopeful she’ll make a return…
Orange is the New Black is an undeniably compelling show — but how much of it is based on a true story? We look into the real Piper’s life and experiences in prison.
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