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The season finale of the ABC Family program 鈥淧retty Little Liars鈥� just aired, but we already know some of what will happen in the upcoming season.聽

On the smash hit TV show, the four female main characters 鈥� Emily, Hanna, Aria, and Spencer 鈥� are high school students. However, according to E!, the upcoming episodes of the show will skip the quartet going to college.聽

But the first 10 episodes of the upcoming sixth season will take place before that time skip, executive producer Marlene King told E!.聽

鈥淚 did say we're going to do a four-year time jump and we will honor that before the end of season six," King聽said. "It's really exciting. I can't wait to see the girls after they come back from college. It's going to be awesome.鈥澛�

The season finale included some of the girls being taken captive by a mysterious villain named A. That will continue into the sixth season, King said.聽

鈥淲e will start next season right where we left off, with the girls trapped and they don't get out immediately," she said. "Season six takes place in a very condensed period of time.鈥澛�

The show centers on a group of high school girls who are menaced by a person known only as A, who seems to know all about their pasts and says he or she will tell everyone what they know. The TV program is based off the series of the same name by Sara Shepard.聽

So is it a good idea to jump forward in time? Characters going to college has always been difficult for high school-based TV shows. Fellow teen drama 鈥淥ne Tree Hill,鈥� which aired on the CW, skipped college also, a decision TV Guide called 鈥渨ise鈥� The timejump not only allowed the characters to age up more appropriately to the actors' real ages, but provided for more mature story lines and character arcs,鈥� though EW writer Ariana Bacle was not enamored with the 鈥淭ree鈥� time jump 鈥� 鈥淥ne Tree Hill聽was supposed to be about relatable teen angst and aww-worthy sentimentality 鈥� not failed dreams and marital problems,鈥� Bacle聽wrote.聽Another CW show, 鈥淒awson鈥檚 Creek,鈥� jumped forward five years, 鈥渟olving the aging problem and ditching the series' dreary college setting in one fell swoop,鈥� Entertainment Weekly聽reporter Hillary Busis聽wrote.聽

Some recent TV shows that depicted those post-high school years include the Fox TV show 鈥淕lee鈥� and another CW show, 鈥淕ossip Girl.鈥� At the end of one of the seasons of 鈥淕lee鈥� that took place post-high school, Vulture writer Lauren Hoffman wrote that 鈥淕lee聽hasn鈥檛 quite figured out what to聽be聽this season,鈥� though Hoffman wrote that part of that might have come from the then-recent death of 鈥淕lee鈥� actor Cory Monteith as well as 鈥渢he struggle to hit the right tone as it tells post-high-school stories.鈥� As for the TV show 鈥淕ossip Girl,鈥� as noted by HitFix writer Daniel Fienberg, 鈥渁ll of the characters on 鈥楪ossip Girl鈥� collectively decided to drop out of college in their sophomore years鈥� 鈥撀燼lmost all of the characters on the show began college their freshman year, but most either had jobs or appeared to be focusing on other things during the rest of the seasons (or at least we rarely if ever saw them attend class or mention their school).聽

So 鈥淟iars鈥� may have made a wise decision. Fans will have to tune in and see next season.