McKinley Franklin editor “The Crown” will bow its final season in two parts. Netflix revealed the release plan in the first trailer, featuring Imelda Staunton‘s Queen Elizabeth II wandering past images of Claire Foy and Olivia Colman as a nod to the series’ decades-spanning journey.
The first four episodes of Season 6 will debut on the streamer on Nov. 16. “The Crown” will then take a hiatus of nearly one month before releasing its final six episodes on Dec.
14. Though Netflix has largely stuck to its binge model of releasing all episodes of a television season at once, it has bifurcated debuts before; in 2022, “Stranger Things” Season 4 released seven episodes in May, withholding the final two episodes until July.
Peter Morgan’s historical drama series will recount the late ‘90s and early 2000s, a period defined by Princess Diana’s tragic death.
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