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“The Resident Season 1- 5” Back on Netflix?

With 4 successful seasons, The Resident is back with its fifth blockbuster season on Fox, The fifth season is yet to feature on Netflix around the globe. The show was initially scheduled to release on Showtime but instead ended up on Fox where it has released new seasons every year since its release in 2018.

The Season 5 of the show was released on the 21st of September and is set to have 23 episodes. The show is a mixture of House and Grey’s anatomy and is set in a hospital where a young doctor is learning from the best in the business.

Why is the Resident not on Netflix in the United States?

 If you are reading this then that means you have realized that the series is now on Netflix. 

The show was first distributed by 20th Television before it was moved under the Disney- ABC Domestic Television banner. 

Netflix in the United States and Fox broke all ties in the summer of 2017 and since then lost most of the Network’s biggest shows like Family Guy and Prison Break. Most of the titles moved to Hulu which is also a streaming home for The Resident with all of its Five seasons available on the platform.

With the head-to-head competition between Netflix and Disney, it is most unlikely for Disney to license out the Resident to any other network.

But there is nothing to worry about because you can watch similar shows like Grey’s anatomy, The Night Shift, Chicago Med, and Private Practice on the Streamer.

What is the plot of the show?

The show is an American medical drama series, based on the book: ‘Unaccountable’ by Marty Makary. The series focuses on the lives and responsibilities of the Staff members of the Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. It focuses on the bureaucratic practices and politics of the hospital industry.  The show was created by Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore, and Roshan Sethi. Showtime sold it to Fox in 2017. The series was ordered to be projected with a 14 episode season order by Fox TV.

Who is the cast of the show?

The show began with us following the life of a medical resident on his first day of work under the supervision of his senior resident who is the best in the business.

The show started with Bruce Greenwood and Manish Dayal to be the first final cast members to play the characters of Randolph Bell and Devon Pravesh. Matt Czuchry was appointed as Conrad Hawkins, a senior resident, who was later promoted as the Chief Resident at the hospital, Emily VanCampplayed the character of Nicollette Nic Nevin, a nurse practitioner at the hospital, and later becomes Conrad’s wife.

Netflix has failed to Grab the rights of the Show in the regions too:

Netflix has failed to grab the rights of the resident in other regions as well. Let’s have a look at which other streamers is the series available in other English Speaking regions:

In the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, with no network picking the show you will have to rely on video-on-demand services to watch the show.

With the release of Disney’s Disney+, the show has found its place in the Star tile area.

The bad news is that the show is not on Netflix and it seems that it won’t be on the streamer in the near future. 

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