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"That&amp;apos;s Pretty good TV!\r\nPretty Little Liars hasn&amp;apos;t even aired its first season finale yet and there&amp;apos;s already more drama in store.\r\nBuoyed by the success of the show&amp;apos;s winter premiere high of 4.2 million viewers, ABC Family announced plans for season 2 on Monday.\r\nVIDEO: More hot TV news\r\nBased on the book series by Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars follows a clique of four popular high school girls who break up their friendship after their fifth member, Alison, is found dead. They suddenly begin receiving mysterious text messages from somebody who refers to herself as &amp;quot;A,&amp;quot; leading some of the girls to believe she didn&amp;apos;t die.\r\nAshley Benson, who plays queen bee Hanna, promises viewers won&amp;apos;t be let down with the inaugural season&amp;apos;s final episodes, which began airing January 3.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I read the eighth book, but only the last chapter because I wanted to know who &amp;apos;A&amp;apos; was,&amp;quot; she tells UsMagazine.com. &amp;quot;We&amp;#x2019;re staying very close to the books. Everyone who has read the books has been very pleased with them.&amp;quot;\r\nThe hour-long hit is set to air the new episodes this summer."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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