On April 7th, 2016, it was also revealed that Troian Bellisario will be making her directorial debut in the 15th episode of the season.On April 7th, 2016, it was revealed the season will premiere on June 21st, 2016.
The second episode of Season 7 was revealed on April 6th, 2016 to be " Bedlam" and written by Joseph Dougherty and directed by Tawnia McKiernan.Filming for the season will commence April 3, 2016.Wednesday March 30th, 2016 was the official first day of pre-production for Season 7.The Season 7 premiere title was revealed by Marlene King to be " Tick-Tock, Bitches" and she will be writing the episode as well.Tammin Sursok, who has portrayed Jenna Marshall since Season 1, will be back at some point in Season 7.Joseph Dougherty announced via Twitter that he is writing episode 7x02.Bryan Holdman announced via Twitter that he is writing episode 7x05.On March 16th, 2016, it was announced that Andrea Parker was promoted to Main Cast for Season 7 in the dual roles of Jessica DiLaurentis and her twin, Mary Drake.On March 14th, 2016, Jonell Lennon announced via Twitter she is writing the outline for 7x03.Writing and brainstorming started as of Monday, February 1st, 2016.Joseph Dougherty will also continue to executive produce. On January 8th, 2016, it was reported by Deadline that Charlie Craig, who served as a writer/consulting producer in Season 2 of Pretty Little Liars, would return to serve as executive producer/co-showrunner on Season 7 of PLL, alongside fellow executive producers/co-showrunners Marlene King and Oliver Goldstick.Later, Marlene confirmed that he will first appear on the 15th episode of the season, which is ironically directed by Bellisario. On August 22nd, 2016, Morris confirmed he would be in 7B.
Season 7 will be the final season of the series.We don’t really want that to happen, given that it feels almost like an auto-correction for everything that happened last year. With Maggie potentially going away, there is a good opportunity for drama that could also pull Malcolm out of the picture and simplify his life. We’d focus a little bit here on the Aria / Adam storyline, but admittedly, it’s somewhat dull considering that it’s almost predictable that eventually there is going to be trouble for the two, and that this in turn will lead to some movement for Aria and Ezra. These two have a major problem ahead, and it is a simple one in that they both realize that may have very different futures mapped out for each other. Drama! Sadly, it’s drama of the possible-breakup kind. Saving Jenna from the lake was probably the only swimming-related achievement that we saw from Emily tonight, as she spent much of the early half of the episode finding out that the one swim coach that she wanted to work with was probably not going to be able to help her … and that Paige lied to her about it.