Virgin River will return for a seventh season on Netflix in either very late 2025 or more likely, early-to-mid 2026, following the release of season 6 in the Christmas of 2024, which proved to be one for the history books. Bookended by the long-awaited wedding between Jack and Mel, the series continues to be incredibly popular on Netflix. What can you expect from Virgin River season 7, and when will it be streaming? Below, we’ve rounded up everything we know so far, including new casting details, production updates, season 8, and an update on the spin-off. Here’s what we know as of August 2025, including the recently confirmed episode titles.
Virgin River first debuted in late 2019 and is now one of Netflix’s longest-running drama series. It has a strong track record of being renewed ahead of its latest season’s release, and season 7 followed suit. On October 23rd, 2024, we exclusively revealed that Netflix had renewed the show for a seventh season, accompanied by a video featuring much of the main cast celebrating the news.
How well did Virgin River Season 6 perform on Netflix?
Thanks to the Netflix global top 10s, we can see how the series is performing so far as of its first few days on the platform (week 1, as we’ll call it). It debuted as the number one English-language series on December 16th, picking up 67.7 million hours watched, equivalent to 8.1 million views. As of the time of updating, the show has now featured in the top 10 for 4 weeks, picking up 213 million hours watched, equating to 25.6 million views. You can dive deeper into the stats on Virgin River using our tool.
How does that stack up against previous seasons? Not bad, is the answer. While the show is experiencing a notable decline in viewership, it’s not to the point of cancellation. We suspect that when the show ends, it’ll be on the showrunners’ own terms.
Unlike some previous seasons, production in the next season isn’t getting underway as quickly as usual. The team aims to avoid the harsh winter months in late 2024 and return to Canada (where the show has filmed since season 1) in the Spring. Tim Matheson confirmed this filming start date back in November when he stated in an interview that filming would be underway in March 2025.
Subsequent production lists indicated that filming would commence in Vancouver on March 12, 2025, and conclude on June 26, 2025. Season 7 is expected to consist of 10 episodes once again.
The official show’s Instagram confirmed on March 13th that filming was underway on its eighth season, with the caption: “Virgin River is back in production for season 7!!!”
Andy Mikita is the first confirmed director on season 7, set to direct the first two episodes. Mikita has been with the show since season 1, with eight credits (soon to be 10) under his name. We can also confirm that Audrey Cummings will be making her Virgin River debut for season 7. The film and TV director has previously worked on titles like My Life with the Walter Boys, Ginny & Georgia, and Place of Bones. As we’ve also covered, other directors this season include old-timers Monika Mitchell, Ruba Nadda, and Felipe Rodriguez.
We also first reported that Virgin River will be doing something new for the series: going abroad.
Following the team behind the show sharing pictures that filming had wrapped up in mid-to-late June 2025, we got word that some of the team, mainly Mel and Jack, were heading to Mexico for a stint of filming. It’s expected to be their honeymoon, and some of the set pictures that have been revealed give us some potential spoilers about where the story is heading next…
When will Virgin River season 7 release on Netflix?
Netflix hasn’t confirmed the release year of the series, but as of the update to their 2025 schedule for the Netflix Upfronts, Virgin River was missing. That means we’re fully expecting the show to return to our screens in 2026. Our best guess is sometime in early to mid-2026.
What to Expect from Virgin River Season 7
As first revealed by Deadline, Netflix is adding two more faces to the Virgin River cast going into season seven. Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Cody Kearsley (Riverdale) have been recruited into recurring roles this season
Per the trade, Canning will play the role of Victoria, described as “an ex-cop who was shot in the line of duty and is now working for the state medical board as an investigator. She comes to Virgin River to investigate Doc’s practice but runs into a friend whom she wouldn’t mind catching up with…or maybe more.”
Kearsley will be playing the role of Clay, described as having “experience working the rodeo circuit, so there’s also a tough athletic quality to him. He grew up in the foster care system with his younger sister, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a teenager. He’s been looking for her ever since.”
Additionally, it’s reported that Matthew Harrison will be on board to play the role of Dr. Wilson.
The other major casting addition to Virgin River season 7 is Austin Nichols (One Tree Hill, The Six Triple Eight), who we’ve confirmed with Netflix will be appearing in season 7. His role, however, remains a mystery.
More Flashbacks in Season 7
In early May 2025, Callum Kerr unexpectedly posted on Instagram that he was on the set of Virgin River season 7. We say unexpectedly because the next time we’d expect him to be playing the role of Everett would’ve been in the long-awaited spin-off. His inclusion in season 7 suggests that the spin-off is no longer happening.
