PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Additional Episodes Ordered

ABC Family has ordered 12 additional episodes of its new series, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS which brings that total of episodes for the first season to 22.

The series is based on the bestselling Teen novels of the same name by Sara Shepard. It follows four 16-year-old friends, Aria (Hale), Spencer (Bellisario), Hanna (Benson), and Emily (Mitchell), who are harassed by a mysterious person calling itself A – seemingly referring to their friend Alison who disappeared a year prior – threatening to expose their secrets.

Pretty Little Liars is executive-produced by I. Marlene King (“Just My Luck,” “If These Walls Could Talk”), Oliver Goldstick (“Lipstick Jungle,” “Ugly Betty”) and Leslie Morgenstein (“Gossip Girl,” “The Vampire Diaries”).