Though its sixth season is still months away from premiering on Netflix, Grace and Frankie has already been renewed for a seventh season. However, the streaming service announce its seventh season will also be its final one. The final season has been given a longer season order than its predecessors, running up to 16 episodes.
The series follows the lives of Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie (Lily Tomlin) after their husbands (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterson) reveal they have been in a decades-long gay love affair together and divorce them. Dealing with the fallout of this revelation and the complicated lives of their children, the two overcome their contentious relationship and become friends and business partners.
“It’s thrilling and somehow fitting, that our show about the challenges, as well as the beauty and dignity of aging, will be the oldest show on Netflix.” said co-creators and showrunners Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris.
“We are both delighted and heartbroken that Grace & Frankie will be back for its seventh, though final, season,” said Fonda and Tomlin. “We’re so grateful that our show has been able to deal with issues that have really connected to our grand generation. And their kids, and amazingly, their kids as well! We’ll miss these two old gals, Grace and Frankie, as much as many of their fans will, but we’ll still be around. We’ve outlasted so many things—just hope we don’t outlast the planet.”
“Since its premiere in 2015, Grace and Frankie has expertly and hilariously demystified the experience of growing older and given a voice to the fastest growing segment of our population,” stated Netflix’s VP of Original Series Cindy Holland. “Jane, Lily, Sam, and Martin have become role models for fans that span generations around the world, and we are so proud to have been a part of the show’s journey from day one. A special thanks to Marta, Howard, and the team at Skydance, who have been superb partners every step of the way.”
“David, Marcy and I, along with the entire team at Skydance couldn’t be prouder to have Grace and Frankie launch our television division,” said Dana Goldberg, Skydance’s Chief Creative Officer. “We are thankful to our partners at Netflix who stepped up to make a show for people who didn’t see themselves on television. Seven seasons later Grace and Frankie has captured the zeitgeist and audiences of all ages thanks to the brilliant vision of Marta Kauffman and Howard Morris and the incredible talent of our cast led by legends Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.”
Grace and Frankie‘s sixth season wrapped production earlier this year and will premiere in January 2020.
