PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Up to 4.3 Million Total Viewers with L+3

Powered by the 3rd annual "Pretty Little Liars" Halloween special and the series launch of "Ravenswood," along with high performing theatricals for the network's annual "13 Nights of Halloween" event, ABC Family ranked as cable TV's #1 network in Prime in Women 18-34 (308,000) and Females 12-34 (430,000), and placed among the Top 5 networks in Women 18-49 (#4 - 436,000).

Notably, this week stood as ABC Family's most-watched week this year in Women 18-34 and its 2nd-most-watched week in Females 12-34, behind only week of 1/14/13. Moreover, the network hit a 31 week high in Adults 18-34 (397,000/0.6 rating) and 14 week high in Adults 18-49 (599,000) and Women 18-34 (308,000) - since weeks of 1/14/13 and 7/15/13, respectively.

"Pretty Little Liars" (Tues., 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.) ranked as the week's #2 TV telecast in Females 12-34 (2.0 million/4.3 rating) and cable TV's #2 scripted telecast in Women 18-34 (1.3 million/3.8 rating) and Viewers 12-34 (2.3 million/2.5 rating). Impressively, the episode became ABC Family's #2 telecast in the network's history in Women 18-34 and the series' #2 telecast of all time in Adults 18-34.

According to Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings, "Pretty Little Liars" was the week's #1 TV telecast, reaching 6.3 million unique Twitter accounts, creating more than 59 million impressions.

Tuesday's special was the 7th "Pretty Little Liars'" episode to amass over 1 million Tweets (1,160,813), according to SocialGuide, reaching over 6 million people and creating more than 59 million. In fact, "Pretty Little Liars" accounts for the Top 4 'most tweeted' series episodes in TV history, and 5 of the Top 7 overall.

Based on Live + 3 ratings, "Pretty Little Liars" surged to 4.3 million Total Viewers, to over 3 million Viewers 12-34 (3.1 million/3.4 rating) and over 2 million Adults 18-34 (2.1 million/3.0 rating) and Adults 18-49 (2.6 million/2.0 rating).

"Ravenswood" (Tues., 9:00 - 10:00 p.m.) launched as ABC Family's #1 series premiere in the network's history in Women 18-34 (789,000/2.3 rating) - and cable TV's biggest drama debut in nearly three years (since "Skins," 1/17/11) - its #2 series debut ever in Adults 18-34 (913,000/1.4 rating) and Women 18-49 (982,000/1.5 rating) and ranked among the Top 5 across Adults 18-49 (#5 - 1.2 million/0.9 rating), Viewers 12-34 (#5 - 1.5 million/1.6 rating) and Females 12-34 (#4 - 1.3 million/2.7 rating).

Based on Live + 3 ratings, "Ravenswood" climbed to 2.7 million Total Viewers, to nearly 2 million Viewers 12-34 (1.8 million/2.0 rating) and over 1 million Adults 18-34 (1.1 million/1.7 rating) and Adults 18-49 (1.4 million/1.1 rating).

According to SocialGuide, "Ravenswood" amassed the most tweets of any new TV series premiere this season (200,721), reaching over 3 million people and generating over 16 million impressions, placing fifth for the week per Nielsen Twitter TV ratings.

Source: NTI, U.S. ratings, Live + Same Day. Week of 10/21-27, 2013; 13 Nights of Halloween 2013 to date: 10/19/13-10/27/13, Monday-Sunday, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. NTTR: Twitter TV Ratings.

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