Every sentence has a story in the smash hit series Orange Is The New Black – Season One arriving on Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital HD UltraViolet), DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet) and Digital HD May 13 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Hailed by critics as “magnificent and thoroughly engrossing” (Washington Post), the hugely popular dark comedy from “Weeds” creator Jenji Kohan broke viewing records for its premiere season. Starring Taylor Schilling (Argo, Stay) in a Golden Globe® nominated performance, Orange Is The New Black also won “TV Program Of The Year” from the American Film Institute (AFI).
Based on the best-selling memoir by Piper Kerman, Orange Is The New Black also stars Jason Biggs (American Pie franchise), Laura Prepon (TV’s “That ‘70s Show”), Kate Mulgrew (TV’s “Star Trek: Voyager,” TV’s “NTSF:SD:SUV”), Pablo Schreiber (TV’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Showtime’s “Weeds”), Natasha Lyonne (American Pie, G.B.F), Taryn Manning (TV’s “Sons of Anarchy”), Michael J. Harney (Showtime’s “Weeds,” HBO’s “True Detective”) and rising talents Danielle Brooks, Laverne Cox, and Uzo Aduba.
Orange Is the New Black follows engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Timed to the series’ second season premiere, Orange Is The New Black – Season One will include all 13 episodes on a three-disc Blu-ray and four-disc DVD set, packed with bonus materials fans will love including numerous featurettes that contain behind the scenes interviews with author Piper Kerman, series creator Jenji Kohan and favorite cast members, along with a gag reel and special episode commentaries with the series producers.
