10 Facts About Orphan Black

Orphan Black is a Canadian science-fiction thriller television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett and starring Tatiana Maslany.

An aftershow, After the Orphan Black, began airing in the third season on Space and was acquired by BBC America for the fourth season.

Orphan Black is later featured in the eighth episode, in which an unnamed Polish clone is revealed to have recently died from a respiratory illness.

Orphan Black was thought to be one of the clones executed in Helsinki but survived.

The subsequent comic titled Orphan Black: Helsinki, published November 2015, expands on her character.

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Orphan Black had submitted this screenplay to Temple Street in 2004, where it went into review and was ultimately rejected.

Orphan Black auditioned for the role of Maslany's double and earned the spot because the producers were in search of, in Alexandre's words, "an actor as opposed to just a double".

Orphan Black used dance to develop the physicality of the characters, including their postures, gestures, and movements, and relied on her background in improv to develop the characters more fully.

Orphan Black continued to receive very positive reviews from critics, with the second season scoring 79 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on reviews from 26 critics.

In March 2019, it was reported that a new series set in the Orphan Black universe was in early development stages at AMC, to be produced by Temple Street Productions.