Gilmore Girls' Is Leaving Netflix Tomorrow — Here's Where to Watch It Starting July 1
Gilmore Girls fans, the panic-binge window is closing — but the show isn't going far.
All seven seasons of Gilmore Girls are leaving Netflix in the U.S. on June 30, ending a roughly 10-year run on the platform. The good news: the show lands on Prime Video the very next day, July 1, with no gap in availability and no extra cost beyond a standard Prime Video subscription.
Why It's Leaving Netflix
The departure comes down to licensing. Warner Bros. Television owns the underlying IP for Gilmore Girls, and Netflix's exclusive 10-year streaming window on the series was set to expire by July 1, 2026. Unlike Friends, which migrated from Netflix to Max when its deal lapsed — Max being the natural home for Warner Bros. content — Gilmore Girls is heading to Amazon instead. It will also remain available on Hulu, so the new deal is non-exclusive.
Netflix marked the occasion on X with a send-off that leaned into the show's own mythology: "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."
This isn't Prime Video's first time hosting the series — it was available there briefly in late 2025 — but it is the first time since Netflix's licensing deal expired.
What About the Revival?
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, the four-part 2016 Netflix revival, is not part of this move. It will remain on Netflix for now, with its own departure currently set for Nov. 25, 2026 — exactly 10 years to the day after it premiered on the platform. Because Netflix couldn't secure a renewal for the original series, a deal extension for the revival before November is considered unlikely.
About the Show
Gilmore Girls originally aired on The WB and later The CW for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, who served as showrunner for the first six seasons before David S. Rosenthal took over for the seventh, the series follows Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. It drew a devoted fanbase that has only grown through streaming, logging 3.7 billion viewing hours on Netflix between 2023 and 2025 alone.
The shift to Prime Video is available to U.S. subscribers only. Internationally, Gilmore Girls will remain on Netflix for the foreseeable future.
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