

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. 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 follows the lives of four high school girls whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader. Marlene King and is loosely based on the novel series of the same name. Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, and Joseph Dougherty Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, and Charlie Craig A fifth series, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, is released in 2022. The four series in total amount to 152 episodes across 10 seasons of television. Television įour television series, including one made for web, make up the bulk of the Pretty Little Liars franchise: Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Dirty Secrets, Ravenswood, and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. A television adaption for the series had been in the works at The CW since 2013, but the rights were later sold to Freeform.

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. Five high school girls jokingly plan the perfect murder for a boy who has hurt them in different manners. The second novel, and sequel to the first, titled The Good Girls was released on June 2, 2015. The first book of the same name was released on October 2, 2014. The Perfectionists is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. A audio podcast series titled The Liars, which served as a sequel to the series and was released on Audible on June 16, 2022.

The franchise has been licensed by 's Kindle Worlds range of non-canon ebooks. The novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. 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. Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. 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. Shortly after the messages begin, Alison's body is discovered buried in her yard. 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. 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.

Main article: Pretty Little Liars (book series) In 2022, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, the fourth series in the franchise premiered on HBO Max. It aired on Freeform from March to May 2019 and was cancelled after one season. A television series for The Perfectionists was developed and later reworked into a spin-off and sequel of Pretty Little Liars with the title Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, which became the third series in the franchise. The first book of The Perfectionists was released in April 2014 and a second book in 2015. Pretty Little Liars later ended and aired its final episode in June 2017. The second series to make it to television, Ravenswood, aired on ABC Family from 2013 to 2014 and was cancelled after one season. 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. The first television series also entitled Pretty Little Liars began airing on ABC Family in June 2010 meanwhile, additional books continued to be published. The initial novel of the same name was first published in 2006. Pretty Little Liars is a multimedia franchise consisting of two book series, four television series and one web series.
