Netflix has set a lofty goal to stream a new original show or season every two and half weeks, which would equal 20 original series airing per year. The video streaming service will meet that goal by almost half before summer starts this year.
Netflix announced on Wednesday it will launch six new series and premiere new seasons of "House of Cards" and the children's program "Mako Mermaids" over the next 5 months. The TV Internet network also renewed original series "Marco Polo" for a second season.
"House of Cards" on Friday, Feb. 27.
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" on Friday, March 6
"Bloodline" on Friday, March 20
"Marvel's Daredevil" on Friday, April 10
"Grace and Frankie" on Friday, May 8
"The Adventures of Puss in Boots" on Friday, Jan. 16
"Ever After High: Spring Unsprung" on Friday, Feb. 6
"Mako Mermaids" Season Two on Friday, Feb. 13
Read on for brief descriptions on each of the shows.
NBC passed on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" from creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock before Netflix saved the comedy. The show stars Ellie Kemper as woman who escapes a doomsday cult and works to restart her life in New York City. It premieres globally on Friday, March 6.
Kyle Chandler headlines his first series since "Friday Night Lights" in "Bloodline." He must contend with his older brother and the black sheep of the family when he returns home and "exposes the emotional demons that lie at the core of the family." The show premieres globally on Friday, March 20.
Marvel and Netflix teamed up to launch four new series that revolve around lesser-known super heroes in the Marvel Comics universe. The first show, "Daredevil," that chronicles the blind Matt Murdock who works as a lawyer during the day and fights crime at night as the super hero Daredevil. Charlie Cox, Rosario Dawson and Vince D'Onofrio star.
"9 to 5" co-stars Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda reunite in the new original series "Grace and Frankie." The actresses play two "frenemies" in their 70s who grow closer when both their husbands leave them for each other.
