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title: "Lucy Hale says the Pretty Little Liars cast would be up for a revival as she reunites with Ian Harding"
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# Lucy Hale says the Pretty Little Liars cast would be up for a revival as she reunites with Ian Harding

Lucy Hale says she would be so down for a Pretty Little Liars revival with the original cast, as she reunites with Ian Harding in a Hulu Christmas film.

Lucy Hale has spent this month back on screen with her old *Pretty Little Liars* love interest, and she has already said she would go further. Asked in September about rumors of a revival with the original cast, Hale said on the *On Purpose with Jay Shetty* podcast: “We’ll see, I would love to. I feel like I’m at a point now where I’d absolutely be so down, I think everyone else would be as well.”

No revival has been announced. Hale framed her answer around rumors she had heard, not plans she knew about, and no studio has confirmed a project. What she did confirm is her own appetite, and the rest of her comment is her belief about her co-stars rather than a statement from them.

## Aria and Ezra, nearly a decade later

The talk has picked up because Hale and Ian Harding, who played Aria Montgomery and her teacher-turned-partner Ezra Fitz, are paired again. Their holiday romance *The 12 Dates of Christmas* began streaming on Hulu on November 6, two days after a premiere in Hollywood. Hale plays Christina, who promises herself 12 dates in the 12 weeks before Christmas in the hope of finding the one. David Lipper directs, and Carter Jenkins, Kahyun Kim and Greer Grammer co-star.

It is Hale’s first Christmas movie, and she said the old chemistry came straight back. “We picked up right like that,” she said at the premiere, calling Harding “a true friend.” Harding said that on set he sometimes struggled to tell scripted lines from their real conversation.

## Why fans keep asking

The original series ran on Freeform, first branded ABC Family, from June 8, 2010, to June 27, 2017, across 160 episodes and seven seasons. Hale appeared in every one of those episodes as Aria. The show became the network’s most-watched series and its longest-running original, peaking at 4.20 million viewers for a single episode.

The franchise has tried three times to move on without the core cast, and none of the attempts lasted:

- **Ravenswood** (2013–2014): a supernatural spin-off, cancelled after one season.

- **The Perfectionists** (2019): brought back Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish, cancelled after one season.

- **Pretty Little Liars** on HBO Max (2022–2024): a new cast in a new town, cancelled in September 2024 after two seasons.

Set side by side, the record explains the pressure behind Hale’s answer: three spin-offs produced four seasons between them, while the original five friends carried seven. The only full-cast reunions so far were virtual ones in May 2020, held online for the show’s 10th anniversary and a pandemic charity drive.

Revivals built on the original faces have become a familiar move for streamers. Badiyaa followed one recent example when [Netflix cast Cornell Young IV in its A Different World sequel](https://badiyaa.com/cornell-young-iv-a-different-world-netflix/), and there is more in our [entertainment coverage](https://badiyaa.com/category/entertainment/).

For now, the only new Aria-and-Ezra pairing is the Hulu film, and it runs through the holiday season on the 12-week countdown its title promises.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Pretty Little Liars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Little_Liars)

*Image: jjduncan_80, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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