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Days after the Season 2 finale of Chasing Life, ABC Family has opted not to renew the series for a third season. The cancer-themed drama saw its second season premiere moved up by more than a month, from the originally announced Aug. 17 to July 6, airing behind The Fosters. Chasing Life‘s viewership dipped in the…

Chasing Life is on the move again. After announcing earlier this month that the drama’s Season 2 premiere, originally slated for Aug. 17, was being moved up to July 6, ABC Family today said that Chasing Life also is getting a new time slot, moving from the originally announced Monday 10 PM berth to 9 PM, following The…

There’s reason for celebration at ABC Family. For 2014, the network snagged its first No. 1 spot in primetime in women 18-34 (250,000/0.7). It also notched its highest annual primetime rankings in adults 18-34 (350,000/0.5) and viewers 12-34 (509,000/0.6). The ratings were fueled in big part by Pretty Little Liars.…

ABC Family’s Chasing Life has gotten another early pickup. Ahead of the drama series’ Christmas special and second portion of Season 1, the show has been renewed for a 13-episode second season. This marks the first major pickup decision at ABC Family since the arrival of Karey Burke as EVP Programming and Development…

The season finale of the new ABC Family series Chasing Life — about a 24-year-old aspiring journalist facing leukemia — will focus on April (Italia Ricci)'s "7 days in chemo and all that goes with that," executive producer Patrick Sean Smith revealed at today's TCA. Smith appeared on today's panel with fellow EPs Joni…

How about this for an unexpected hot Hollywood trend: projects about young people afflicted – often terminally – with cancer. ABC Family's new drama series Chasing Life – about a 24-year-old aspiring journalist who finds out she has leukemia – debuted on June 10. Only two days earlier, cancer teen romance The Fault In…

Tuesday's fifth-season starter of ABC Family‘s Pretty Little Liars premiered with 2.7 million viewers and a 1.1 demo rating, falling behind its fourth-season kickoff (3.0 million viewers and 1.3 demo rating) and that season's finale (3.1 million viewers and 1.3 demo rating). But, the network noted, it was Tuesday's…

Veteran TV executive and producer and writer J.J. Jamieson has been named head of production for South Shore Television, the U.S. joint venture of Grupo Televisa and Lionsgate. He will report to Televisa USA Chief Creative Officer Michael Garcia and Lionsgate EVP Television Chris Selak, who just re-upped her contract…

ABC Family announced the summer premieres of three new original series. Three nights of original programming will include new drama Chasing Life and comedies Young & Hungry, starring Emily Osment, and Mystery Girls, starring and executive produced by Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth. Pretty Little Liars, Switched At…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC Family‘s upcoming drama series Chasing Life has not been assigned a premiere date yet, but it just received a back order for seven episodes. The cast was given the good news today, just in time for Thanksgiving. The back order brings the first season of Chasing Life to 20 episodes, which is ABC Family’s…