More “Famous in Love” is coming our way. Freeform has renewed the Bella Thorne-led drama about young Hollywood for a second season, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.
Based on Rebecca Serle’s 2014 YA novel of the same name, “Famous in Love” sees Thorne playing Paige, an average college student who auditions to star in a blockbuster adaptation of a hugely popular book series. She lands the gig and becomes an overnight celebrity.
Serle and “Pretty Little Liars” creator Marlene King created the series and penned the pilot together.
“The book took eight months to write, but it was another three years until it was published,” Serle recalled in a guest post she wrote for Women and Hollywood. “I was impatient, particularly because I had begun to turn my attention to another iteration of the world. I wanted ‘Famous in Love’ to be a TV show. And I wanted to write it.” She explained, “There wasn’t exactly a working model for this, and to my knowledge no author had ever become the creator of their own show. The story for most authors is this: Hollywood comes calling, you accept their terms gratefully, and you sign on the dotted line. But this was my story. I wanted to be the one to bring it to life, not watch from the sidelines as it happened.”
Before “Famous in Love” aired on Freeform, it was released on the network’s digital platforms, allowing audiences to binge the series. It “earned the strongest start for a show in the network’s history,” THR writes.
King and Melissa Carter (“Queen Sugar”) serve as showrunners.
“We’re so proud to be continuing our relationship with Marlene King and this incredibly talented cast,” said Karey Burke, Freeform executive vp of programming and development. “‘Famous in Love’ has resonated with nearly 30 million fans [factoring in linear, digital across all episodes] across the U.S. and we couldn’t be happier to deliver another season of this addictive series.”
The final episode of the series’ debut season aired on Freeform in June.