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Mar 15 2013 10:00 AM ET

'Pretty Little Liars' finale: Mona's back in the 'A' team's lair...with Spencer? -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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It’s all coming to a head on Pretty Little Liars.

Or so says Mona (Janel Parrish) in an exclusive clip from the season finale of ABC Family’s teen soap, a video that finds the devious girl in the “A” team’s mobile lair. Mona gives her approval to her faceless co-conspirator’s plan to host a Hastings gathering of dinner and dancing, an event where Mona promises that the Liars will “finally going to get what they deserve.”

Relevant questions: Who is she talking to? Could the person in the black hoodie — the “A” team leader maybe — be Spencer? And what is the reward that Mona mentions? Watch the clip from next week’s Pretty Little Liars – which airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET — below.

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Mar 6 2013 01:00 AM ET

'Pretty Little Liars' react: 'You don't know who I am anymore'

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Detective Wilden is alive! Spencer is locked up! Toby’s body is missing! Yep, I think it’s safe to say that Rosewood has officially passed Mystic Falls as the craziest place to live, and it doesn’t even have supernatural beings … that we know of. Let’s dig in!

After Melissa showed up at the school looking for Spencer, the girls set out on a very lackluster mission to find her. In their not-at-all-panicked search for Spencer, Aria decided to help Ezra find a teaching job, and Hanna convinced her mom that a job in New York might be a good thing. Meanwhile, Jane Doe (aka Spencer) was busy bonding with her caretaker at Radley, whose name just happened to be Eddie Lamb. Eddie spilled the beans that they thought Spencer might have amnesia (which was clearly false), and that the only reason she was sent to Radley was because county was full. Talk about good timing. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 5 2013 12:00 PM ET

'Pretty Little Liars': Five coming twists to watch for before the season finale

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Including tonight’s new installment of Pretty Little Liars, just three episodes of ABC Family’s mystery series remain before it signs off with March 19′s season finale, “A dAngerous gAme.” With our recent EW cover story “The Surprising Power of Pretty Little Liars,” the show’s stars and producers offered up some hints about the five most important revelations happening in Rosewood over the next three weeks.

1. Emily (Shay Mitchell) becomes more and more like a detective. She sets out to discover the truth about Toby (Keegan Allen) and his involvement with the “A” team. “Emily wants to give him the benefit of the doubt and say, ‘Then he must be doing it for a good reason because I don’t believe it,’” explains Mitchell. “Emily is like, ‘There has to be something bigger.’” And yes, Emily will find out something. “Is Toby good or bad?” asks exec producer I. Marlene King. “By the end of the season, viewers will know the answer to that question.”

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Mar 1 2013 09:05 AM ET

Meet the four young stars of Broadway's new musical 'Matilda' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Move over, Annie! Broadway has some new pint-size leading ladies vying for the spotlight: the four very young stars of the stage musical version of Roald Dahl’s classic Matilda, which begins performances March 4 before an official April 11 opening at the Shubert Theatre. The Royal Shakespeare Company production, already a hit in London, follows a precocious little girl who must overcome bad parents, a lonely childhood, and a vicious headmistress.

Nine-year-old Sophia Gennusa and 10 year-olds Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shapiro will share the role Billy Elliot-style, rotating performances. In this exclusive clip, the quartet of Broadway first-timers display both an imaginative energy and a sense of mischief that helped get them the gig. As the girls sing in the show, “Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.”

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Feb 28 2013 03:00 PM ET

'Pretty Little Liars': Spencer confronts 'Red Coat' in the finale -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTO

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Get ready to meet “Red Coat”! As you can see in this exclusive photo from Pretty Little Liars‘ March 19 season 3 finale, the ever crazier and crazier Spencer (Troian Bellisario) meets the until-now elusive “Red Coat” face-to-face for the first time. The details around her meeting with “Red Coat” are sketchy, but the show’s actors and producers have already heavily teased to EW that crimson-hooded spook largely factors into the season’s denouement.

On the subject of “Red Coat,” Bellisario says: “There is something about her that is so familiar that it’s almost more frightening than ‘A,’ which is a completely new terror.” Maybe that explains Spencer’s stunned look in the above photo? “There’s something about ‘Red Coat’ that they all recognize about their past. There’s some kind of haunting to it — not to say that there’s a supernatural element — but the girls are all kind of getting that feeling from it, that it’s more frightening than ‘A.’ This must be one person, and we must know them.”

Is “Red Coat” the “A” team captain? Is she CeCe (Vanessa Ray)? She’s “who you think it might be, yes,” says executive producer Oliver Goldstick, but “it’s not definitive. The finale is a shocker.” Lucy Hale — who plays Little Liar Aria — adds that the hooded villain “could be the keeper of a lot of answers and a lot of things that they’ve been searching for.”

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This Week’s Cover: The Surprising Power of ‘Pretty Little Liars’
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Style on the set of EW’s ‘Pretty Little Liars’ shoot — EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS

Feb 28 2013 07:03 AM ET

'Pretty Little Liars': How should the series end? The show's stars and producers weigh in

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How will Pretty Little Liars end? Well, no one knows — largely because (as EW’s recent cover story pointed out) the series is at the top of its game right now and will likely run for another couple seasons. The “A” team is here to stay!

But the end is still worth thinking about. Should the show — which will end its third season on March 19 — keep telling stories at the same pace, the end of season 5 would see the girls graduate from high school, likely in the spring of 2015. (PLL has been renewed through a 24-episode fourth season so far, which will keep it on the air through at least next March.) Commencement seems like a perfect point to wrap things up, right?

Executive producer Marlene King is toying with the five-seasons-and-out idea, but for now she remains coy: “Knowing the endgame allows us to have something to work toward.” How does the entire Pretty Little Liars creative team see these girls going out? King, her fellow executive producer Oliver Goldstick, and the actresses think the four characters — Aria (Lucy Hale), Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Hanna (Ashley Benson), and Emily (Shay Mitchell) — should have a happy ending, but they’ve all got some rather interesting suggestions for how it should all wrap up ultimately, which you can read below.

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Feb 14 2013 03:49 PM ET

Nostalgia alert! Tamagotchi relaunches with an app

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Do you remember what the height of frustration for kids was in 1997? When you forgot to feed your Tamagotchi pet, and then it died! Or worse, you did nothing wrong but that dang thing froze and the pet died anyway.

For the uninitiated, Tamagotchi was a popular handheld digital game in the mid ‘90s that tasked you with keeping a digital pet alive by feeding and playing with it  by way of various buttons. They were all the rage on elementary school playgrounds, and now, when just about everything is handheld and digital, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Tamagotchi is aiming for a comeback. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 13 2013 09:37 AM ET

Warner Bros. reveals 'Wizard of Oz' 75th anniversary commemorative toys -- EXCLUSIVE

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There’s no place like home — especially if that home is stuffed with these Wizard of Oz-themed collectibles, which Warner Bros. will release in honor of the seminal fantasy film’s upcoming 75th anniversary next year. EW has a first look at eight toys in the collection — starting with this new Toto doll, the perfect companion for R.J. Wright’s existing Dorothy figurine. You don’t need a crystal ball to see how the studio has partnered with brands like Alexander Doll, Barbie, and even Mr. Potato Head to commemorate Oz‘s milestone — just click through, my pretties.

Feb 11 2013 05:48 PM ET

The Okee Dokee Brothers savor their Grammy win

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Grammy weekend was a grand time for two old friends whose road trip, er, river trip helped them take home music’s top honor for the Best Children’s Album of 2012. Even though the Okee Dokee Brothers‘ Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing’s folksy Can You Canoe? , born out of a 2011 trip the two took down the Mississippi river from Minneapolis to St. Louis, has had a fantastic reception, they were still surprised and delighted by their win on Sunday in the pre-telecast ceremony.

“We didn’t have any expectations. We were up against some really quality kids perfomers. The range really represented the genre and what’s going on in the industry,” Mailander told EW as he headed home to Minneapolis from L.A. Other contenders in the category were Elizabeth Mitchell’s Little Seed: Songs For Children By Woody Guthrie, The Pop Ups’ Radio Jungle, Bill Harley’s High Dive And Other Things That Could Have Happened…, and JumpinJazz Kids – A Swinging Jungle Tale – Featuring Al Jarreau, Hubert Laws And Dee Dee Bridgewater by James Murray & Various Artists. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 8 2013 08:00 AM ET

Hasbro introduces Nerf Rebelle line for girls, starting with the Heartbreaker bow -- EXCLUSIVE

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Hasbro is hoping to hit a bullseye with its next high-profile launch — a new brand of Nerf toys aimed specifically at girls. The line, called Nerf Rebelle, will feature projectiles that have the same power as the top items in the brand’s Nerf Elite line — but come wrapped in a prettier package and designed to encourage the collaborative play Hasbro has found girls prefer. Aspiring Princess Meridas and Katniss Everdeens can own the first Rebelle product — called the Heartbreaker bow — this fall.

Rebelle immediately brings to mind Lego Friends, a new line of female-driven products that helped to increase Lego’s profits by 36 percent last year — even as critics accused the toy company of promoting gender stereotypes. But John Frascotti, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Hasbro, says that his corporation isn’t worried that Rebelle pigeonholes girls or reinforces the ideology of separate spheres.

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