From plot hints to potential returning cast members, here’s what we know so far about the seventh season of ‘Virgin River’

When Netflix announced in October they’d renewed Virgin River for a seventh season, making the adaptation of Robyn Carr’s romance novels their longest-running English-language drama ever (Orange Is the New Black was initially classed purely as a comedy),

Jack and Mel may have tied the knot, but there's still more melodrama (and romance!) to come from the Netflix hit.

Season 6 of Netflix's soapy romantic drama "Virgin River" dropped Thursday and besides serving viewers with bucket loads of emotion, the season ended in true series fashion, with multiple cliffhangers.

Virgin River season 6 will be released on Netflix on Thursday 19th December. There will be a total of 10 episodes that will drop on the streamer this time around. For those in the UK, Virgin River season 6 will be released at 8am on 19th December. For our friends across the pond, it will be released at 3am Eastern.

By telling the story of Mel's parents, Everett and Sarah, the show's added new actors Callum Kerr and Jessica Rothe for a storyline that goes back in time and finally gives Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) the answers she's been hoping for ever since she discovered that Everett (played in present day by John Allen Nelson) is her birth father.

Netflix's drama series Virgin River returned for a sixth season, and here's what you need to know about the latest installment in Mel and Jack's saga.