New York Daily News

‘Orange’ on death row in ’19

- BY GINA SALAMONE

It’s lights out at Litchfield Penitentia­ry.

The seventh season of the Netflix hit “Orange Is the New Black,” set to premiere next year, will be its last.

The cast of the comedy-drama based on Piper Kerman’s memoir broke the news on Twitter Wednesday.

“The final season is coming,” says Taylor Schilling, who stars as key character Piper Chapman on the show.

Piper was sentenced to prison for carrying drug money to Belgium for her girlfriend.

Other cast members, like Kate Mulgrew, who plays Russian inmate Galina “Red” Reznikov, praised the series while getting sentimenta­l.

“I’m going to miss playing and living on the edge of one of the most groundbrea­king, original and controvers­ial series of this decade,” Mulgrew said.

“Seven years, been a hell of a ride,” said Dascha Polanco, who plays Dayanara (Daya) Diaz.

The show, Netflix’s most-watched original series, earned a dozen Emmy nods in its first season alone, winning three that year.

“I’m so grateful for the fun times, the knowledge, the friendship­s, the love, the family that we have created together,” shared Uzo Aduba, who in 2015 won the outstandin­g supporting actress in a drama series Emmy for her role as Suzanne (Crazy Eyes) Warren.

While the main setting for the show’s first five seasons was Litchfield Penitentia­ry, a fictional minimum-security women’s federal prison in upstate New York, last season focused on the maximum-security prison where several of the inmates were transferre­d after a prison riot.

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