Orange is the New Black sets return date

Netflix has set a launch date for the second season of its well-received female prison drama Orange is the New Black.

The series will return on June 6, with all 13 episodes made live simultaneously as per the regular Netflix windowing model.

Viewers who had binge-watched the entire second season of another original, House of Cards, which launched on Friday, were told of the release date in an announcement at the end of the final episode.

Comedy-drama OITNB comes from Tilted Productions in association Lionsgate Television and is based on Piper Kerman’s memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison.