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Pretty Little Liars made its New York Comic-Con debut on Friday, where the ABC Family drama’s cast and crew spilled some crucial details about Season 6B (premiering Jan. 12). All five liars — Lucy Hale, Ashley Benson, Shay Mitchell, Troian Bellisario and Sasha Pieterse — were on hand, along with the show’s executive producers, to give fans a taste of what’s to come when PLL returns in January, beginning with a screening of the premiere’s first four minutes. Highlights from those four minutes include: * The premiere begins with a touching nod to the past five-and-a-half seasons, with echoes of the girls’ previous “A” accusations echoing through the halls of Rosewood High School. * “Dr. Rollins” is helping Alison prepare for a hearing: Charlotte’s release! * Spencer is living in Washington, D.C. “To have her be so successful in her career and be in … a political world was very exciting for me,” Bellisario says. * Ezra published his book, and you can count Aria among his readers. “I was excited to see what Aria was going to pursue,” Hale says. “She takes a left turn and falls in love with writing and becomes a publisher. You’ll find out why she was looking at Ezra on the back of his book. … I think they’ll always be in each other’s lives. It’s complicated * Prepare to think Hanna has a daughter, seen sitting next to her on a plane. (But don’t get too excited — she’s just watching her for someone else.) “She got into fashion and moved to New York,” Benson teases. “She traveled the world * Emily’s a bartender in a tropical locale. (Surprised?) “Out of all the girls, her time away is the hardest,” Mitchell says. “She goes through some things.”

ABC Family’s new saga series “Shadowhunters” will premiere on Jan. 12 at 9 p.m. ET, the network announced Saturday. The network will also be airing a preview special, “Beyond the Shadows: The Making of Shadowhunters,” on Dec. 6 at 9:30 p.m. ET. The series is based on the best-selling YA fantasy book series “The Mortal Instruments” by Cassandra Clare, and follows 18-year-old Clary Fray who finds out on her birthday she comes from a long line of Shadowhunters — human-angel hybrids who hunt down demons. When her mother Jocelyn is kidnapped, Clary is thrown into the world of demon hunting. “Shadowhunters” is produced by Constantin Film and executive produced by Ed Decter andMcG, who will also direct the first episode. It will star Katherine McNamara as Clary Fray, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, Emeraude Toubia,Matthew Daddario, Isaiah Mustafa and Harry Shum Jr. The series will premiere its 13-episode season in early 2016. “Beyond the Shadows: The Making of Shadowhunters” will give fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of making the TV show, which will include the cast talking about how they landed their roles and how they got into shape.

‘Pretty Little Liars’ Return Date Set by ABC Family ABC Family has set the premiere date for “Pretty Little Liars,” the network announced Friday. The hit series starring Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell and Sasha Pieterse will return for the second half of Season 6 on January 12, 2016. A one-hour behind-the-scenes special will air ahead of the premiere on Nov. 24, and will give a sneak peek of the series upcoming five-year time jump. “Pretty Little Liars” also debuted its new opening sequence on Thursday, which kept many of the original elements, but added series regular Pieterse. The series is produced by Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Horizon Television and is executive produced by I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, Leslie Morgenstein and Joseph Dougherty. Tyler Blackburn, Ian Harding, Laura Leighton and Janel Parrish also star. ABC Family recently announced that it will be renamed Freeform in January. The network’s senior vice president of marketing, creative and branding, Nigel Cox-Hagan told TheWrap on Tuesday that the relaunch of “Pretty Little Liars” would have “a lot of Freeform messaging associated with it.”

Great movie! See previous post for plot summary!

“In 1927, southern belle Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) and lover John Mayhew (Bruce Dern) plan to elope during a party at the Hollis family's antebellum mansion in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. However, it turns out John is married to another woman. Charlotte’s father detests the affair, and to end it he intimidates John by telling him his wife visited the day before and he told her about the affair. To end the affair and return to his wife, John tells Charlotte he no longer loves her. Sometime in the evening John is brutally murdered. In the mansion’s summerhouse, he is decapitated with a meat cleaver and his hand severed. Charlotte discovers John’s mutilated body and is traumatized. She walks to where the party is taking place, her white dress covered with John’s blood. People assume Charlotte is the murderer. The story jumps to 1964. Charlotte is now an elderly, wealthy spinster, still living in the family’s now decrepit plantation mansion. Also living in the mansion is Velma (Agnes Moorehead), Charlotte’s housekeeper. Charlotte’s father died the year following John Mayhew’s murder. He died believing his daughter murdered Mayhew. Charlotte believed her father killed Mayhew. The community assumed Charlotte murdered her lover, in a fit of rage after John called off their plans to elope and ended the relationship. The Louisiana Highway Commission plans to demolish the mansion to build a new highway through the property. Charlotte is vehemently against this. She ignores an eviction notice and refuses to vacate. She keeps the foreman (George Kennedy), his demolition crew, and the bulldozer away by shooting at them with a rifle. They temporarily give up and leave. Seeking help in her fight against the Highway Commission, Charlotte calls on Miriam (Olivia de Havilland), a poor cousin, who in childhood lived at the mansion with the Hollis family. Separately, Miriam renews her relationship with Drew Bayliss (Joseph Cotten), a local doctor who, after the Mayhew murder, broke off his relationship with Miriam. With Miriam’s arrival at the mansion, Charlotte’s sanity mysteriously starts to deteriorate. Charlotte’s nights are haunted by a harpsichord playing a melody Mayhew wrote for her, and by the appearance of Mayhew’s disembodied hand and head. Housekeeper Velma, suspecting that Miriam and Drew are after Charlotte’s money, seeks help from Mr. Willis (Cecil Kellaway), an insurance investigator who is still interested in the Mayhew murder, and who has visited Mayhew’s ailing widow, Jewel (Mary Astor). Miriam fires Velma, who later returns and discovers that Charlotte is being drugged. Miriam catches Velma trying to help Charlotte escape the house. The two argue at the top of the stairs. Velma tries to leave but Miriam smashes a chair over her head causing Velma to tumble down the stairs to her death. One night, a drugged Charlotte runs downstairs in the grip of a hallucination, believing John has returned to her. To drive Charlotte completely insane, Miriam and Drew trick Charlotte into shooting Drew with a gun loaded with blanks. Miriam helps Charlotte dispose of the supposedly dead Drew into a swamp. Charlotte returns to the mansion only to see the deceased Drew at the top of the stairs. This reduces Charlotte to whimpering madness. Now believing Charlotte completely insane and having locked her in her bedroom, Miriam and Drew walk into the garden to discuss their plan: to drive Charlotte insane so they can steal her money. Miriam also tells Drew that, back in 1927, she witnessed Mayhew’s wife Jewel murder her husband. She’s been using this information to blackmail Jewel for all these years, while also plotting to gain possession of Charlotte’s wealth. Charlotte overhears the entire conversation between Miriam and Drew. Charlotte moves toward a huge stone urn on the ledge of the balcony, almost directly over the plotting lovers’ heads, and pushes it over towards Miriam and Drew. As Miriam embraces Drew she notices the urn being tipped and coming down on her and Drew, and also discovers Charlotte glaring at them. The look in Charlotte’s eyes tells Miriam the entire conversation was overheard. As she stands stunned at the sight of Charlotte, the massive stone urn crushes the two dead. The next morning the authorities drive Charlotte away, presumably to an insane asylum. Many neighbors and locals gather at the Hollis home to watch the spectacle, believing that crazy Charlotte has murdered again. In the car, insurance investigator Willis hands Charlotte an envelope from the now-dead Jewel Mayhew, who had a stroke after hearing of the previous night’s incident. In the note, Jewel confesses to the murder of her husband, John Mayhew. As the authorities drive Charlotte away, she looks back at her beloved plantation, apparently for the last time.”

Sorry, fans, but you don’t have all the answers: Pretty Little Liars will continue to make heads spin in Season 6B. A new Pretty Little Liars theory could mean a lot more questions are headed our way. Just when we thought we had all the answers we could hope for from Pretty Little Liars, a new fan theory for the upcoming 6B season not only makes a lot of sense, but it also just adds so many more questions to the layer upon layer that is this story. WARNING: If you are not caught up on Pretty Little Liars, read at your own discretion. Uber A spoilers below. The theory started thanks to showrunner I. Marlene King, who revealed that the title for Season 6 Episode 20 will be, “Hush Hush Sweet Liars.” PLL is known for weaving in some serious mantras to old films throughout its seasons. The biggest examples being the film noir episode called, “Shadow Play,” the fact that the coffee shop is called the Rear Window Brew, which pays homage to famed director Alfred Hitchcock, and the scene in Season 1’s episode, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” in which the scene where Ian tries to kill Spencer was inspired by the final scene in the movie Vertigo. So how does “Hush Hush Sweet Liars” lend itself for some serious clues? Well, one fan theorizes that the title was inspired by the 1964 film Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte, in which a woman is suspected of killing her lover. Even more suspicious, Charlotte’s last name in the film is Hollis. Hollis, as Pretty Little Liarsfans might remember, is the name of the college in town. It’s also important to note, CeCe’s real name was Charles, which she then changed to Charlotte. With all of these clever references to the movie, fans have theorized that Season 6B might take some of the key plot points to the flash forward when the show returns. Namely with regard to CeCe Drake, who was revealed as Uber A and Alison’s long lost sibling. In Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte, Charlotte becomes haunted by the death of her lover and begins seeing visions of his decapitated head as she fights to keep her home years after the murder. This could be a clue that CeCe might become haunted by her past. It is also a hint that she might murder again. It indicates that though the liars might have moved on from the hardships of the past when we begin the flash forward, it will no doubt catch up with them as new and strange things begin to happen. It also suggests there are more secrets from the past that might be uncovered. And if you didn’t already pity CeCe Drake, Season 6B might prove she’s the most tragic character of them all.

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