The ‘PLL’ & ‘Vampire Diaries’ Spinoffs Are Coming To FOX8 So RIP Yr Free Time

Foxtel has announced that they’ve signed a multi-year deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution and will be premiering four new series over the next 12 months including Castle RockRoswell, New Mexico and PLL plus The Vampire Diaries/The Originals spinoffs, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists and Legacies.

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Brian Walsh, Foxtel’s Executive Director of Television, said via the press release, “Warner Bros. Television is one of the entertainment industry’s most respected producers of original and award-winning drama and comedy, and this new deal will further enrich Foxtel’s incredible slate of exclusive international content.”

Jeffrey Schlesinger, President of Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution, said: “We are pleased to have concluded this deal with Foxtel to bring these distinctive and entertaining series to audiences in Australia.”

The 10-part PLL spinoff launches on FOX8 next year from executive producer/writer I. Marlene King, based on the Alloy Entertainment book series.

Here’s the basic gist of it:

Set in Beacon Heights, a seemingly perfect town, the series revolves around a group of three college friends who struggle with the stress of being overachievers. In the aftermath of the town’s first murder, each Perfectionist hides behind a secret, a lie and an alibi.

Legacies, premiering on FOX8 this Thursday, November 15 at 9.30pm, follows the next gen of magic folk studying at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted.

Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson; Alaric Saltzman’s twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman and other young adults come of age in the most unconventional way possible, nurtured to be their best selves, in spite of their worst impulses. Will these young witches, vampires and werewolves become the heroes they want to be — or the villains they were born to be?

Also coming to FOX8 in 2019 is new drama series Roswell, New Mexico, based on the Roswell High books via The Originals’ Carina Adly MacKenzie and Julie Plec.

After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown, Roswell native Liz Ortecho discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life, along with those of his otherworldly siblings. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.

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All four series will also be available at launch to stream through Foxtel On Demand on internet-connected iQ set-top-boxes and on streaming services Foxtel Go and Foxtel Now.

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