{"id":275745,"date":"2026-02-09T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275745\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:14:47","slug":"mel-and-jack-anticipate-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275745\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel and Jack Anticipate Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThis is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another,\u201d Netflix<\/a> teases in the season seven trailer for Virgin River<\/a> that released Monday (below).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe streamer released the first look of the upcoming season starring Alexandra Breckenridge<\/a> and Martin Henderson<\/a>, which kicks off after restaurateur Jack Sheridan (Henderson) and nurse practitioner Melinda Monroe (Breckenridge) finally got married in the season six finale<\/a>, after getting engaged in season four. The finale also teased one of Mel\u2019s pregnant patients hoping to place her baby with Mel and Jack after her adoptive couple pulls out.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe upcoming seventh season<\/a> \u2014 which releases all episodes on Netflix March 12 \u2014 sees the couple ready to start the next chapter of their lives married and welcoming a baby.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNewly married, Mel and Jack pursue their dream of adopting a baby, while old loves smolder and new threats challenge Virgin River,\u201d reads the logline.<\/p>\n

\n\tTim Matheson, Annette O\u2019Toole, Colin Lawrence, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Zibby Allen, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Kai Bradbury and Kandyse McClure also star.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeveloped by Sue Tenney, Patrick Sean Smith, Sue Tenney, Amy Palmer Robertson, Roma Roth, Christopher E. Perry, Robyn Carr, Jennifer Monroe, Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith exec produce the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series is based on the New York Times bestseller and Harlequin book series of the same name written by author Robyn Carr. The Virgin River collection features more than 20 books, and together they have sold more than 13 million copies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another,\u201d Netflix teases in the season seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[155357,156,155358,1094,111,139,69,437,42798],"class_list":{"0":"post-275745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-alexandra-breckenridge","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-martin-henderson","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-virgin-river"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}