Grace and Frankie Are Back With an Outrageous New Season 6 Trailer

From Oprah Magazine

• Season 6 of Grace and Frankie will premiere on January 15, 2020, and the new trailer was just released!

• Original cast members Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, and Martin Sheen are all slated to return.

• In August 2019, Netflix announced that the series will end with season 7. When the show wraps, presumably in 2021, it will be Netflix's longest-running original series.

If you haven't watched Grace and Frankie yet, the time to catch up is now. The Netflix series starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, and Martin Sheen is unusual, unorthodox, and side-splittingly hilarious. Vibrator injuries anyone? But Grace and Frankie is more than sex jokes and vodka martinis. It follows the unlikely-but-unbreakable bond Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin) come to share after their husbands "come out" as gay and commit to one another. Here's everything you need to know about Netflix's longest-running original series—which will officially end with season 7.

When will the new episodes premiere?

While January may seem so very far away, Netflix has confirmed that season 6 of Grace and Frankie will be released on January 15 2020.

Is there a trailer, yet?

There is indeed, and it's just as fabulous as you'd think. Grace and Frankie are back and better than ever, but definitely falling into their same antics. In the trailer alone there's a surprise marriage announcement, an arrest, Sol and Robert receiving some scary health news, and an apparent arrest. Oh, and no big deal, but Grace and Frankie visit Shark Tank to pitch their latest invention—which appears to be a toilet that helps people stand-up after using it.

Did we mention how much we love these ladies?

Who is returning for Grace and Frankie season 6?

There have not been any formal cast announcements—at least not yet—but thanks to IMDb, we’ve got a good idea who is coming back. These actors and actresses are all slated to appear in the upcoming season:

• Jane Fonda as Grace

• Lily Tomlin as Frankie

• Sam Waterston as Sol

• Martin Sheen as Robert

• Brooklyn Decker as Mallory

• Ethan Embry as Coyote

• June Diane Raphael as Brianna

• Baron Vaughn as Nwabudike Bergstein

• Peter Cambor as Barry

• Peter Gallagher as Nick

• Michael Charles Roman as Adam

Will there be any new cast members—and, most importantly, is Dolly Parton going to make an appearance?

The appearance of Dolly Parton on Grace and Frankie has been rumored for quite some time. After all, Fonda and Tomlin appeared alongside Parton in the 1990 series 9 to 5, and the trio have stayed in touch ever since. What's more, in 2018, Tomlin suggested Parton's Grace and Frankie debut wasn't a matter of if but when. "We’d like to see Dolly and we keep hoping we’ll work out a schedule," Tomlin said during a panel last summer. "But she’s just so busy.”

As for other guest stars, Netflix, Fonda, Tomlin, Waterson, and Sheen have remained mum on the matter.

Got any spoilers for me?

We don't know *too* much sadly, but at PaleyFest, the show's co-creator Marta Kauffman, suggested that Frankie and her once-upon-a-time beau, Jacob (Ernie Hudson), might rekindle things. "The electricity between them was so vibrant. We will be seeing him in season 6," Kauffman said. Sure, it's not a lot but it's something tide us over until the teaser trailers arrive.

Will season 6 be the final one for Grace and Frankie?

After months of uncertainty, Netflix has revealed Grace and Frankie will be renewed for one more season, though the streaming service has also confirmed season 7 will be its last.

“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,” co-creators and showrunners Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris told Deadline.

Tomlin and Fonda echoed a similar sentiment.

“We are both delighted and heartbroken that Grace and Frankie will be back for its seventh, though final, season. 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," Fonda and Tomlin said, "but we’ll still be around."

That said, with 13 episodes currently slated for season 6 and 16 for season seven, there are still countless tears to shed and laughs to be had.

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