After 12 years of being a constant source of delight to many, it’s sadly time to say goodbye to the best comfort dramedy of all time. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, who also served as showrunner for the first 6 seasons, the series originally ran for six seasons on The WB from October 5, 2000, to May 9, 2006, before concluding with Season 7 on The CW from September 26, 2006, to May 15, 2007. Seven years later, the witty drama arrived on Netflix in the U.S. in its entiretyand later became available in international territories in 2016.
As one of the greatest television shows ever, Gilmore Girls consistently achieved strong ratings during its original run and became even more popular when it debuted on streaming, particularly on Netflix. Now reports confirm that the romance series is leaving the streaming service this summer, with its last day on the platform in the U.S. slated for June 30, 2026. That said, Gilmore Girls will be removed from Netflix on July 1; however, international subscribers won’t be affected for the foreseeable future.
On top of that, the four-part Netflix revival, also described as a sequel, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, will depart from the streamer this November. A Year in the Life is set ten years after the series finale and consists of four episodes, each lasting between 88 and 102 minutes, with each episode representing one of the four seasons of the year. With the devastating Gilmore Girls news, Netflix took to X with a nod to one of the show’s most iconic quotes:
“It’s a show? It’s a lifestyle. It’s a religion. We are sorry to say that Gilmore Girls Seasons 1–7 will be leaving Netflix in the US on June 30. Raising a cup of coffee to every fan who visited Stars Hollow with us.”
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
Is ‘Gilmore Girls’ Worth Watching?
Starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as mother–daughter duo Lorelai Gilmore and Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls centers on their daily life in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Lorelai is a single mum who dreams of owning an inn and ends up opening and running the Dragonfly Inn. On the other hand, her academically minded teenage daughter, Rory, intended to attend Harvard University but eventually chose Yale University, her grandfather Richard Gilmore’s (Edward Herrmann) alma mater.
In addition to Graham and Bledel, Gilmore Girls features similarly brilliant stars who make up the ensemble supporting cast, including Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James, Lorelai’s cheerful friend and chef at the inn; Keiko Agena as Lane Kim, Rory’s secretive best friend; Yanic Truesdale as the irritable Michel Gerard, a French concierge at Lorelai and Sookie’s inn; and Scott Patterson as grumpy Luke Danes, a diner owner who is Lorelai’s friend and eventual love interest.
Gilmore Girls streams on Netflix until the end of this month.
