They’ve got a secret, but they can’t keep it. Three years after Pretty Little Liars wrapped its seven-season run and a year after its second spinoff was canceled, Warner Bros. TV is looking to revive the franchise.
Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is leading the charge on a new take on the former Freeform mega-hit. The new PLL is said to feature a new story and new characters, with Aguirre-Sacasa set to write the script. A network is not yet attached and the project has not yet been taken out to possible buyers, though the WarnerMedia-backed streamer HBO Max is considered to be the target destination for the potential series.
WarnerMedia considers PLL a legacy property & that’s why a reboot is being explored. The original show ran for seven seasons from 2010-2016 and helped to define the former ABC Family and set the tone for the Disney-owned cable network’s rebranding to Freeform under former president Tom Ascheim. Freeform attempted to launch two spinoffs out of the franchise — Pretty Little Liars: Ravenswood in 2014 and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists in 2019. Each lasted a single season. The young adult-focused mystery thriller aired across the globe and spawned a couple of local adaptations & the series was a star-maker and social media monster and helped to launch the careers of cast members including Lucy Hale, Tyler Blackburn, Shay Mitchell, and Ashley Benson among others.
