ABC Family Renews PRETTY LITTLE LIARS for Two More Seasons

In anticipation of the fifth season premiere of "Pretty Little Liars" tonight at 8:00-9:00PM ET/PT, Tom Ascheim, president, ABC Family, and Kate Juergens, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development and Chief Creative Officer, ABC Family, announced today that the network has picked up an unprecedented two seasons of its longest-running original hit series, "Pretty Little Liars," from Warner Horizon Television. Season six is set to air mid-2015, and season seven is set to air mid-2016.

"Pretty Little Liars" is ABC Family's #1 series in the network's history in Total Viewers (3.8 million) and across all target demos: Adults 18-34 (1.5 million/2.2 rating), Women 18-34 (1.3 million/3.7 rating), Adults 18-49 (2.0 million/1.6 rating), Women 18-49 (1.7 million/2.7 rating), Viewers 12-34 (2.6 million/2.8 rating) and Females 12-34 (2.3 million/4.9 rating). In fact, PLL has been TV's #1 cable telecast in The Hour for 95-consecutive original telecasts in Females 12-34 - every telecast since its June 2010 series launch - for 47 in Adults 18-34, for 54 in Women 18-34, for 50 in Women 18-49 and for 58 in Viewers 12-34.

"Pretty Little Liars" holds the record as the most-tweeted scripted-series telecast of all time, and across all genres, it holds 7 of the Top 15 most-tweeted series telecasts ever. The show also generated the highest average number of tweets per episode (675,000) of any TV series during the 2013/14 broadcast season. Based on total followers, "Pretty Little Liars" recently became the #1 scripted television series on Instagram, according to ListenFirst Media. (***source information below.)

"'Pretty Little Liars' has taken its place in the zeitgeist and reigns supreme in pop culture," said Ascheim. "I am glad to bring another two seasons to our audience because 'A' has a lot in store for our Liars."

The season 5 premiere of "Pretty Little Liars," entitled "EscApe From New York," airs tonight, Tuesday, June 10th (8:00 - 9:00 PM ET/PT) and picks up where the season four finale left off, with Aria and the Liars reeling from Ezra's shooting at the hands of "A." The five girls quickly realize that as the one person who truly knows "A's" identity, Ezra is in grave danger. While Aria stands watch over Ezra at the hospital, Alison and the PLLs lay a trap to finally flush out "A" and are shocked by who is ensnared.

Meanwhile, Detective Holbrook steps up his efforts to find the girls and puts the Hastings family on alert. And as news of Alison's "resurrection" spreads, Mona is not pleased.

"Pretty Little Liars" is produced by Alloy Entertainment, Gaslight Productions and Russian Hill Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television, and is executive produced by I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, Leslie Morgenstein and Joseph Dougherty. The series stars Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Tyler Blackburn, Lucy Hale, Ian Harding, Laura Leighton, Shay Mitchell, Janel Parrish and Sasha Pieterse.