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New cast members for the upcoming new show Cruel Summer have been announced!

Deadline reveals that Barrett Carnahan, Andrea Anders, Nicole Bilderback and Benjamin J Cain have recurring roles on the Freeform series.

Cruel Summer follows two young women: Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), the popular girl with a charmed life who one day goes missing, and Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia), the nerdy wannabe who is accused of being connected to Kate’s disappearance. All signs point to Jeanette’s guilt, but is Kate really who she seems to be? Set over three summers and told through shifting points of view, the series challenges perception and follows how one girl can go from being a sweet outlier to the most despised person in America.

Barrett, who you may recognize from some of his roles on Best Friends Whenever, Cobra Kai, grown-ish and Alexa & Katie, will play Derek, Andrea will portray Joy Wallis, Nicole is Denise and Benjamin joins as Rod Wallis.

Cruel Summer will premiere on Freeform on Tuesday, April 20th at 9pm ET/PT. Check out the first teaser trailer here!

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The upcoming Freeform series Cruel Summer has just been given a premiere date!

The new psychological mystery, from executive producer Jessica Biel, will have a two-hour premiere event on Tuesday, April 20th at 9pm ET/PT.

Cruel Summer follows two young women: Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), the popular girl with a charmed life who one day goes missing, and Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia), the nerdy wannabe who is accused of being connected to Kate’s disappearance. All signs point to Jeanette’s guilt, but is Kate really who she seems to be? Set over three summers and told through shifting points of view, the series challenges perception and follows how one girl can go from being a sweet outlier to the most despised person in America.

Also starring in the new series are Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee and Brooklyn Sudano.

Check out the full cast photo in the gallery, and watch the first look teaser now!

Freeform has just made a ton of very exciting announcements!!

The network revealed that new show Motherland: Fort Salem has been renewed for a second season, as well as new comedy Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.

In addition to the Motherland renewal, Lyne Renee, who plays General Alder, has been upped to series regular!

“I could not be more grateful for the chance to keep exploring the world of ‘Motherland: Fort Salem,’” Writer/Creator Eliot Laurence said in a statment. “Freeform has been such a fabulous home for us through the development process, production, post and marketing. I’m also blown away by the love we’ve gotten from our fans, whose excitement and passion played a massive part in this renewal. Thank you, witches!”

“This is great news, not just because it means I have a group of writers that have to hang out on my screen with me all day and I don’t have to be alone anymore getting weird,” Creator, Executive Producer and star Josh Thomas said of EGBO, “but because I love this show and I love these characters and I love our cast and crew and making another season is just going to be so nice.”

Freeform also revealed that the second half of season three of grown-ish and new series Cruel Summer will premiere in 2021.

The Bold Type will premiere in June and new series Love In The Time Of Corona will premiere in August 2020.

This year’s holiday programming “31 Nights of Halloween,” “Kickoff to Christmas” and “25 Days of Christmas,” will be back and bigger than ever. “31 Nights of Halloween” will once again feature the classics Hocus Pocus and Ghostbusters, while “25 Days of Christmas” will bring you The Santa Clause trilogy and be the cable home of Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

This year’s Valentine’s Day themed event “Love However the FF You Want” will be back in 2021, and Freeform will kick off the new “Summer Singalong,” with movies, music and the network premiere of the live action Aladdin!

Olivia Holt is heading back to Freeform!!

The 22-year-old Cloak & Dagger actress and singer has been cast in a lead role in the upcoming thriller series Cruel Summer, Deadline reports.

The show, from executive producer Jessica Biel, was previously titled Last Summer and was picked up to series earlier this year.

Olivia is taking on the role of Kate, who is the embodiment of teenage perfection whose life is one to be envied until she mysteriously disappears, which was originally played by Mika Abdalla in the pilot.

Cruel Summer takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate (Holt), is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia), goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

Each episode is told from the POV of one of the two main girls, which will have the viewers’ loyalties constantly shifting as more information is revealed.

Find out who else is in the cast here!

Freeform just announced that two of it’s shows will be getting another season!

Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez‘s The Fosters spinoff Good Trouble will return for a third season.

Yara Shahidi‘s black-ish spinoff grown-ish will also return for the show’s fourth season, which will follow her senior year of college. Season three JUST premiered on the network.

In addition to the renewals, Freeform has ordered new show Last Summer to series.

Last Summer is an unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers—‘93, ‘94, ‘95—in a small Texas town when a beautiful and popular teen, Kate, goes missing and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America. Each episode is told from the POV of one of the two main girls (Jeanette and Kate), which will have the viewers loyalties constantly shifting as more information is revealed.

The series, from executive producer Jessica Biel, stars Chiara Aurelia, Mika Abdalla, Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee, Nathaniel Ashton, and Brooklyn Sudano.

Freeform’s newest pilot Last Summer has found it’s cast!

The upcoming series is an unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers—‘93, ‘94, ‘95—in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

Each episode will be told from the POV of one of the two main girls (Jeanette and Kate), which will have the viewers loyalties constantly shifting as more information is revealed.

Harley Quinn Smith has joined the show as Mallory, a quirky outsider who feels left behind when Jeannette becomes the popular girl. Her anger masks her genuine hurt by her once best friend.

Froy Gutierrez will also join the cast, playing Jamie, the kind of guy everyone loves. He starts as Jeannette’s secret crush, who ends up as her boyfriend the following year.

Chiara Aurelia, who has had roles in Pretty Little Liars and Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn will take on the lead role of Jeannette, a sweet high schooler who has a zest for
life, but an almost obsessive need to be loved.

Rounding out the cast are Blake Lee, Mika Abdalla, Allius Barnes, Nathaniel Ashton, Michael Landes, and Brooklyn Sudano.