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Netflix To Stream Warner Bros’ ‘Pretty Little Liars’ And ‘The Lying Game’

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday June 11, 2012 @ 8:05am PDTTags: ABC Family, Netflix, Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game

Netflix says this morning that it has a multi-year exclusive deal with Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution to domestically stream all previous season episodes of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game. Season 1 of Pretty Little Liars is already available and Season 2 will be up July 3. The first season of The Lying Game will become available in early 2013 after the second season begins on ABC Family. The deal means that “new viewers will have the opportunity to discover the show and catch up which will, in turn, bring new fans to the original episodes on ABC Family,” says WBDTD president Ken Werner. Some analysts question that assumption: Ratings for Viacom’s Nickelodeon plummeted after many of its shows appeared on Netflix.

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ABC Family Renews ‘The Lying Game’ For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 12:22pm PDTTags: ABC Family, The Lying Game
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ABC Family has closed the deal for a second season pickup of the original drama series The Lying Game. The new season will begin production this summer for a winter premiere. The renewal comes on the heels of a solid … Read More »

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ABC Family Nears Renewal Of ‘Lying Game’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 2:37pm PDTTags: ABC Family, The Lying Game
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The Lying Game ABC Family RenewalI’ve learned that ABC Family is finalizing a deal for a second-season renewal of drama The Lying Game. After a shaky start last summer, the show, based on Alloy’s series books, clinched … Read More »

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UPDATE: ABC Family Renews ‘Make It Or Break It’, Gives Back Order To ‘Lying Game’, Picks Up 4 Pilots, Cancels ‘State Of Georgia’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 16, 2011 @ 10:30am PDTTags: ABC Family, Bunheads, Intercept, Strut, The Lying Game, VIllage People
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UPDATE 11 AM: I have learned that, like Nine Lives, ABC Family’s new comedy State of Georgia also has been canceled.

PREVIOUS: ABC Family news kept coming in dribs and drabs all day yesterday: The back-12 episode pickup for The Lying Game, the cancellation of The Nine Lives of Chloe King and the pickup of two new drama pilots, Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Strut and the technology-themed Intercept. This morning, the network made its official announcement, which includes the pickups for Lying Game, drama pilots Strut (now titled Bunheads) and Intercept, as well as the pickup of two comedy pilots — Baby Daddy, from Nine Lives creator Dan Berendsen, and Village People — and the renewal of gymnastics drama Make It or Break It, “in time to ignite Olympic fever,” as ABC Family president Michael Riley put it. The network’s breakout hit this past summer, Switched at Birth, has already been renewed for a second season. “ABC Family expanded its schedule to present three nights of original programming this summer, and we saw our most successful on record, one that gave us our very own ‘triple-threat’ — Switched at Birth, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Pretty Little Liars,” said Riley. This year, ABC Family delivered its largest summer primetime audience in total viewers (1.48 million) and all key demos. The network has new drama series Jane By Design slated to premiere in early 2012. Here are descriptions of ABC Family’s newly picked-up pilots: Read More »

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TCA: Producers Say ‘The Lying Game’ Isn’t ‘Ringer’s Twin

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday August 7, 2011 @ 2:59pm PDTTags: ABC Family, CW, Ringer, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association, The Lying Game

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA.

Near the beginning of today’s TCA panel on the ABC Family series The Lying Game, executive producers Charles Pratt Jr and Gina Girolamo were asked about the obvious similarities between this … Read More »

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It’s Official: ABC Family Picks Up ‘The Lying Game’ To Series, Keeps ‘Jane’ In Contention

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 8:21am PSTTags: ABC Family, ABC Family Development, ABC Family Original Programming, ABC Family Pilots, The Lying Game, The Lying Game Pilot Pickup, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

I hear ABC Family has finalized its series order to drama pilot The Lying Game. Game joins recently greenlighed comedy series The Great State of Georgia and dramas The Nine Lives of Chloe King and Switched at Birth. Additionally, a fifth pilot, What Would Jane Do, remains in contention for a series pickup after ABC Family extended the options on the actors. This has been ABC Family’s biggest development season with 6 pilot orders. With four and possibly even five of them going to series, ABC Family is making its most aggressive expansion into original programming to date. Last year, the cable network launched 3 new series, Pretty Little Liars,  Melissa & Joey and Huge, two of which, Pretty Little Liars and Melissa & Joey, have been renewed.

UPDATE: Here is ABC Family’s official release: Read More »

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UPDATE: ‘The Lying Game’ Nears Series Order At ABC Family, Could ‘Jane’ Be Next?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 5:45pm PSTTags: ABC Family, ABC Family Pilot Pickups, ABC Family Pilots, Alloy Entertainment, Books Sara Shepard, The Lying Game, The Lying Game Pilot, The Lying Game Pilot Pickup, TV, TV Deals, Warner Horizon
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE: I hear ABC Family’s series order to drama pilot The Lying Game is expected to be finalized on Tuesday, with Game joining recently greenlighed comedy series The Great State of Georgia and dramas The Nine Lives of Chloe King … Read More »

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CASTINGS ROUNDUP: Trio Join Cable Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 22, 2010 @ 6:00am PSTTags: ABC Family, ABC Family Pilots, Exit 19, Exit 19 Casting, Lifetime Pilot, Miguel Ferrer, Raven Symone, The Great State of Georgia Casting, The Great State of Georgia Pilot, The Lying Game, The Lying Game Pilot, TV, TV Deals
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EXCLUSIVE: Majandra Delfino has landed the lead opposite Raven Symone in the ABC Family comedy pilot The Great State of Georgia, Andy Buckley has joined another ABC Family pilot, The Lying Game, while veteran Miguel Ferrer has been cast in the Lifetime pilot Exit 19.

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TV CASTINGS: Actors Board Two ABC Family Pilots And Fox Series ‘Terra Nova’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 1, 2010 @ 5:15pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Books Sara Shepard, Switched at Birth, Terra Nova, The Lying Game, The Lying Game Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals
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After an extensive search, Alexandra Chando (Rockville CA) has landed the lead in the ABC Family drama pilot The Lying Game. Additionally, DW Moffet is set to co-star on another ABC Family pilot, Switched a Birth, while The Whole Truth co-stare Christine Adams has been tapped for the last regular role on Fox’s upcoming drama series Terra Nova. The Lying Game, from Warner Horizon and Alloy, centers on Emma (Chando), a kind-hearted foster kid who finds out she has an identical twin sister, Sutton (also played by Chando) that was adopted by wealthy parents and is seemingly living an ideal life until she goes missing and Emma goes on a quest to find her. Charles Pratt, Jr. is the writer/executive producer on the pilot based on the upcoming novel by Pretty Little Liars author Sara Shepard. Chando is with Gersh and J. Mitchell Management. Read More »

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Larry Charles And Mark Piznarski Get Pilot Directing Gigs

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 8:25am PDTTags: Fox Pilots, Larry Charles, Larry Charles Outnumbered, Mark Piznarski, Outnumbered Pilot, The Lying Game, The Lying Game Pilot, TV, TV Directors, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Borat and Bruno helmer Larry Charles has been tapped to direct Fox’s off-cycle comedy pilot Outnumbered. Meanwhile, Mark Piznarski, who directed the pilot for Gossip Girl, is set to direct another drama pilot based on an Alloy book series, ABC Family’s The Lying Game.

Outnumbered, an U.S. version … Read More »

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ABC Family Picks Up Four Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 28, 2010 @ 8:41am PDTTags: ABC Family, ABC Family Development, ABC Family Pilots, Alloy Entertaiment, Cable TV, Michael Riley ABC Family, Nine lives, Switched at Birth, The Lying Game, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: New ABC Family president Michael Riley is making his first development move a month after he took over the cable network following Paul Lee’s move to ABC. ABC Family has greenlighted 3 pilots, Strut, Nine Lives and Switched at … Read More »

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