Pretty Little Liars (franchise)

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Pretty Little Liars
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Created by Sara Shepard
Original work Pretty Little Liars (2006)
OwnerBooks: HarperCollins
Television: Warner Bros. Entertainment (Warner Bros. Discovery)
Years2006–present
Print publications
Book(s)
Short stories Various short stories
Films and television
Television series
Web series Pretty Dirty Secrets (2012)
Television special(s)
Audio
Soundtrack(s)Pretty Little Liars (2011)
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Pretty Little Liars is a multimedia franchise consisting of two book series, four television series and one web series. The initial novel of the same name was first published in 2006. [1]

Contents

The first television series also entitled Pretty Little Liars began airing on ABC Family in June 2010; meanwhile, additional books continued to be published. [2] Pretty Dirty Secrets , a web series was released on ABC Family's website in the fall of 2012 alongside the third season of Pretty Little Liars. [3] The second series to make it to television, Ravenswood , aired on ABC Family from 2013 to 2014 and was cancelled after one season. [4] Pretty Little Liars later ended and aired its final episode in June 2017.

The first book of The Perfectionists was released in April 2014 and a second book in 2015. A television series for The Perfectionists was developed and later reworked into a spin-off and stand-alone sequel of Pretty Little Liars with the title Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists , which became the third series in the franchise. It aired on Freeform from March to May 2019 and was cancelled after one season. [5] In 2022, a fourth series in the franchise premiered on HBO Max.

Literature

Pretty Little Liars

Set in the suburbs of Philadelphia, the book series follows the lives of four teenage girls whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee leader, Alison DiLaurentis. Three years after her mysterious disappearance, the girls begin receiving intimidating messages from an anonymous character named "A", who threatens to expose their secrets, including long-forgotten ones they thought only Alison knew. Shortly after the messages begin, Alison's body is discovered buried in her yard. The books progress with the four girls trying to figure out the identity of "A" and facing many dangerous obstacles and twists as they do so.

Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. It consists of 21 books split into 4 arcs of 4 books each, the remaining 5 are made up of short stories and companion novels. The novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. [6] [7] [8] The franchise has been licensed by Amazon.com's Kindle Worlds range of non-canon ebooks. [9] An audio podcast series titled The Liars, which served as a sequel to the series and was released on Audible on June 16, 2022. [10] The series' audiobook version was later released on February 14, 2023. [11]

The Perfectionists

The Perfectionists is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. The first book of the same name was released on October 2, 2014. [12] The second novel, and sequel to the first, titled The Good Girls was released on June 2, 2015. [13] Five high school girls jokingly plan the perfect murder for a boy who has hurt them in different manners. When the boy is found dead in the exact way they thought, the girls become prime suspects and start a quest to find the real murderer. A television adaption for the series had been in the works at The CW since 2013, but the rights were later sold to Freeform. [14]

Television

Five television series, including one made for web, make up the bulk of the Pretty Little Liars franchise: Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Dirty Secrets, Ravenswood, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, and Pretty Little Liars (2022). The five series in total amount to 206 episodes across 12 seasons of television.

SeriesSeasonEpisodesOriginally airedAverage viewers
(in millions)
Average adults
(18-49)
Showrunner [15] [16] [17] Status
First airedLast airedNetwork
Pretty Little Liars 1 22June 8, 2010 (2010-06-08)March 21, 2011 (2011-03-21) ABC Family I. Marlene King Concluded
2 25June 14, 2011 (2011-06-14)March 19, 2012 (2012-03-19)I. Marlene King and Oliver Goldstick
3 24June 5, 2012 (2012-06-05)March 19, 2013 (2013-03-19)2.59 [18] 1.1 [18]
4 24June 11, 2013 (2013-06-11)March 18, 2014 (2014-03-18)2.53 [19] 1.1 [19]
5 25June 10, 2014 (2014-06-10)March 24, 2015 (2015-03-24)2.01 [20] 0.9 [20] I. Marlene King
6 20June 2, 2015 (2015-06-02)March 15, 2016 (2016-03-15)ABC Family
Freeform
1.72 [21] 0.8 [21] I. Marlene King and Oliver Goldstick
7 20June 21, 2016 (2016-06-21)June 27, 2017 (2017-06-27)Freeform1.11 [22] 0.6 [22] I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, and Charlie Craig
Pretty Dirty Secrets 1 8August 28, 2012 (2012-08-28)October 16, 2012 (2012-10-16)ABCFamily.comKyle Bown and Kim Turrisi
Ravenswood Backdoor pilot October 22, 2013 (2013-10-22)ABC Family3.18 [23] 0.9 [23] I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, and Joseph Dougherty
1 10October 22, 2013 (2013-10-22)February 4, 2014 (2014-02-04)0.5 [24] 1.29 [24]
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists 1 10March 20, 2019 (2019-03-20)May 22, 2019 (2019-05-22)Freeform0.1 [25] 0.26 [25] I. Marlene King and Charlie Craig
Pretty Little Liars (2022) 1 10 [26] July 28, 2022 (2022-07-28)August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18) HBO Max Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon BringReleased
2 8May 9, 2024 (2024-05-09)TBA (TBA) Max Post-production

Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017)

Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Marlene King and is loosely based on the novel series of the same name. The series follows the lives of four high school girls whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader. One year later, the estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure named "A" who threatens to expose their deepest secrets. The series features an ensemble cast, headed by Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings, Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery, Ashley Benson as Hanna Marin, Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields, Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis and Janel Parrish as Mona Vanderwaal. The series premiered on June 8, 2010, on ABC Family, and ended on June 27, 2017. The ratings success of the first 10 episodes prompted the book series to be extended beyond the initial eight novels. [27] On August 29, 2016, Freeform confirmed that the series would be ending after its seventh season in 2017. [28] The series finale was viewed by an estimated 1.41 million viewers. It had the second-highest rating of any cable TV series that aired that night. [29]

Pretty Dirty Secrets (2012)

Pretty Dirty Secrets is an American mystery web series from the television series Pretty Little Liars. The web series takes place between the events of the series' third season episodes, "The Lady Killer" and "This Is a Dark Ride". Set in the Rosewood Halloween Spooktacular Store, as the visitors of Rosewood prepared for Halloween. [30]

Ravenswood (2013–2014)

Ravenswood is an American supernatural teen drama, mystery-thriller television series created by I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick and Joseph Dougherty. The show aired on ABC Family from October 22, 2013, until February 4, 2014. [31] It is the first spin-off series of Pretty Little Liars and the second series in the franchise. Set in the fictional town of Ravenswood, Pennsylvania, the series follows five strangers whose lives become intertwined by a deadly curse that has plagued their town for generations. They have to dig into the town's dark past to solve the mysterious curse. Starring Nicole Gale Anderson, Tyler Blackburn, Steven Cabral, Brett Dier, Britne Oldford and Merritt Patterson. The series was cancelled due to low ratings after one season. [32] [33] [34]

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (2019)

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists the third series in the franchise, is an American television series created by I. Marlene King. The series premiered on Freeform on March 20, 2019 [35] and was concluded on May 22, 2019. The series is a stand-alone sequel to Pretty Little Liars and was loosely based on the novel The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard. It is the second spin-off series of Pretty Little Liars, which will include some of the main characters with Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish reprising their roles as Alison DiLaurentis and Mona Vanderwaal, respectively. [36] In a town of Beacon Heights, Washington, where everything seems perfect, from their top-tier college to their overachieving residents and the stress of needing to be perfect leads to the town's first murder. It stars Sofia Carson, Sydney Park, Eli Brown, Hayley Erin, Graeme Thomas King and Kelly Rutherford. Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists was cancelled after one season. [5]

Pretty Little Liars (2022–present)

Pretty Little Liars is the fourth series in the franchise, centered around a new cast of characters. Initially announced as a reboot, the series was later confirmed to be taking place within the existing chronology of the previous television series, while introducing new characters and storylines. The series was first announced as being in development at Warner Bros. for HBO Max in September 2020. With Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring took over as showrunners from I. Marlene King. [37]

The premise of the series see the main characters paying for their parents' sin nearly 20 years ago. [38] [39] The first season, titled Original Sin, consists of 10 episodes and stars Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, and Maia Reficco. [40] [41] [42] [43] A second season, titled Summer School, is set to premiere in 2024.

Cast and central characters

ActorCharacterChronology
Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Ravenswood Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 The
Perfectionists
Original
Sin
Summer
School
The Liars
Troian Bellisario Spencer Hastings Main MainMentioned
Ashley Benson Hanna Marin MainGuestMainMentioned
Lucy Hale Aria Montgomery MainMainMentioned
Shay Mitchell Emily Fields MainMainPhoto
Sasha Pieterse Alison DiLaurentis Main [lower-alpha 1] Main
Janel Parrish Mona Vanderwaal RecurringMainMain
The Five
Tyler Blackburn Caleb Rivers RecurringMainMentioned
Nicole Gale Anderson Miranda Collins GuestMain
Brett Dier Luke Matheson GuestMain
Britne Oldford Remy Beaumont Main
Merritt Patterson Olivia Matheson Main
The Perfectionists
Sofia Carson Ava Jalali Main
Sydney Park Caitlin Park-Lewis Main
Eli Brown Dylan Walker Main
The Little Liars
Bailee Madison Imogen Adams Main
Chandler Kinney Tabby Haworthe Main
Zaria (actress) Faran Bryant Main
Malia Pyles Mouse Honrada Main
Maia Reficco Noa Olivar Main
Mallory Bechtel Kelly Beasley Main

International adaptations

CountryLocal titleNetworkOriginal releaseNotes
Flag of India.svg  India Best Friends Forever? Channel V India December 3, 2012 – May 25, 2013Non-official adaptation
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar Star TV July 6, 2015 – October 3, 2015
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Best Friends Forever Trans TV August 7–27, 2017Non-official adaptation
Pretty Little Liars Viu April 22, 2020 – May 18, 2022

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Notes

  1. In the first season, Pieterse is credited as a guest star in Pilot (1.01); however, from the next episode onward, she is credited as a series regular.

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