"Orange Is the New Black" More Popular Than "Arrested Development"

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Maybe there really is something to the Netflix model after all. According to a new report in All Things D, Weeds creator Jenji Kohan's new Netflix series, Orange Is the New Black, managed to pull in more viewers than the Emmy-nominated and highly-anticipated Arrested Development and House of Cards—and it did it with little to no advertising. 

Netflix has opted to remain mum on actual viewing numbers, claiming that since there are no advertisers, there's no reason to release real ratings, so this admission on their part is sort of a big deal. According to the site:

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Weeds had a fairly large fanbase, and the book that Orange Is the New Black is based on was a New York Times Bestseller three years before the show premiered, so these things may factor in too. But the bottom line here is: If the show is good, sometimes people actually do take notice. Luckily for Orange Is the New Black, it didn't take a few years for everyone to figure that out, as was the case with Veronica Mars and Arrested Development.

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[via Uproxx]

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