INTERVIEW: Showrunner Marlene King Previews PRETTY LITTLE LIARS

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS showrunner Marlene King

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS showrunner Marlene King met with We Love Soaps and other media outlets recently to discuss the Winter Premiere of the ABC Family smash hit which returns on Tuesday, January 8 at 8 p.m. ET. Read a transcript of the discussion below.

WE LOVE SOAPS TV: How have you been so successful leveraging social media to support PLL? How much of that do you attribute to your online presence, which is very strong; and how much to the structure or the content or in other words, just the nature of the show that you created?
Marlene King: I think it’s probably equal to both. I think the fact that the PRETTY LITTLE LIARS started tweeting and social mediaing about the show when we were even at pilot phase sort of started this real grass roots, I would say, almost family, this social media family where from pilot stage our fans felt like they were a part of this PRETTY LITTLE LIARS family.

PRETTY DIRTY SECRETS: ABC Family's New Weekly PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Webseries

Fans of the hit ABC Family series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS won’t have to wait until October for the next fix of Rosewood when ABCFamily.com launches its weekly webseries PRETTY DIRTY SECRETS starting Tuesday, August 28th during the summer finale of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS. There will be eight different episodes airing every Tuesday on ABCFamily.com beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.

The webseries will focus on the time between the Aug. 28th summer finale and the special Halloween episode of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS airing in October, when the town of Rosewood is getting ready for Halloween. The local Halloween store in Rosewood is a busy place these days and a good spot for someone who wants to keep tabs on certain people. But as the usual suspects come in and out of the store, will they find more than just the ultimate Halloween costume?