On Netflix they are celebrating in accordance with the decisions they made in these last hours. Ginny and Georgia has been renewed for a third and a fourth season, while the veteran A Dreaming Place has secured a sixth season even before airing its fifth, already filmed and due to be seen in the fall.
The news from Ginny and Georgia, for the record, cannot be said to be a surprise. The series about a mother and a daughter with a totally dysfunctional relationship became an unexpected phenomenon in the platform's catalogue: the second season did around 500 million hours of viewing in its first month, temporarily entering among the most popular series. English-language views of Netflix history (since it lost when The Night Agent slipped into the ranking).
While the cast led by Brianne Howey and Antonia Gentry is expected to remain intact, where there will be changes will be behind the scenes. Debra J. Fisher, who served as showrunner for the first two seasons, will step down in favor of Sarah Glinski, who has experience in the world of teen fiction with Degrassi: The Next Generation. As Deadline reports, it's rumored that there was a bad relationship between Fisher and Sarah Lambert, the series' creator, which instigated this replacement.
The double renewal can be understood both by the viewing figures and by the average budget that Ginny and Georgia are assumed to have compared to Netflix hits like Stranger things or The Bridgertons: it is shot largely indoors, always uses the same locations and sets, and has actors who were mostly unknown before the production of the series. By asking for two seasons at once, you also ensure that you lighten production and, therefore, save costs.
And, when it comes to cheap series, A Place to Dream is Netflix's quintessential success in this category, which is why it will reach at least a sixth season, an achievement that few series on the platform can boast of. With production standards more typical of a tabletop series, the adaptation of the literary saga (with some twenty installments) by Robyn Carr narrates the experiences of the inhabitants of Virgin River, a town lost in the mountains in northern California .
The protagonist is Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge), who flees from a traumatic past when she settles in the town to work as a nurse alongside the town doctor. There she, of course, meets the handsome Jack (Martin Henderson), the owner of the bar, who also has a complicated past, suffering the psychological consequences of having been in the military and having participated in wars.
