Pretty Little Liars | |
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Created by | Sara Shepard |
Original work | Pretty Little Liars (2006) |
Owners | Books: HarperCollins Television: Warner Bros. Entertainment (Warner Bros. Discovery) |
Years | 2006–present |
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Short stories | Various short stories |
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Web series | Pretty Dirty Secrets (2012) |
Television special(s) | |
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Soundtrack(s) | Pretty Little Liars (2011) |
Official website | |
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]
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.