Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars, in its penultimate sixth season, is TV’s most social show of 2016, according to ListenFirst Media from Jan. 1 to Dec. 15, 2016, as reported by Variety.

PLL, as it is known, saw its engagement boosted by 25 percent in 2016 to 256 million interactions.

That was was followed by cable’s biggest scripted series, AMC’s The Walking Dead, with nearly 145 million engagements, and MTV’s Teen Wolf with more than 70 million.

Freeform also had the most social new show of the year with Shadowhunters scoring more than 60 million interactions across social.

Netflix scored three shows in the top ten among new shows: Stranger Things, Haters Back Off and Fuller House, which just released its second season.

Also performing well among new shows as well as in social engagement, fan growth and total video views on YouTube was TBS’ weekly Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

Overall, late-night did well on social with NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon becoming 2016’s top broadcast show in social engagement, as well as earning 2.4 billion views on YouTube. CBS’ The Late Late Show with James Corden saw the most fan growth. It also delivered 1.7 billion YouTube views on the strength of its “Carpool Karaoke” videos. This year’s top viral video, Corden’s ride with Adele, has notched nearly 141 million views to date.

ListenFirst creates its social engagement score across Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr. It does not include Twitter because that platform has an exclusive arrangement with Nielsen and Snapchat does not release its metrics.

Below are ListenFirst Media’s top-ten lists for new and returning series for social engagement and fan growth.

Returning Series, Social Engagement Score

Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars: 256.75 million

AMC’s The Walking Dead: 144.86 million

MTV’s Teen Wolf: 70.55 million

NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 65.78 million

ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos: 59.08 million

Fox’s Empire: 44.72 million

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show: 44.07 million

ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy: 39.68 million

HBO’s Game of Thrones: 39.66 million

NBC’s The Voice: 34.31 million

Freshman Series, Social Engagement Score

Freeform’s Shadowhunters: 60.78 million

Netflix’s Stranger Things: 12.99 million

Fox’s Lucifer: 10.19 million

NBC’s This is Us: 9.20 million

Netflix’s Haters Back Off: 6.75 million

Netflix’s Fuller House: 6.63 million

TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: 3.71 million

MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles: 3.11 million

OWN’s Queen Sugar: 2.41 million

FX’s Atlanta: 2.17 million

Returning Series, Fan Growth

CBS’ The Late Late Show with James Corden: 8.86 million

NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 8.49 million

USA’s WWE Raw: 6.96 million

USA’s WWE Smackdown: 6.36 million

HBO’s Game of Thrones: 5.43 million

AMC’s The Walking Dead: 4.96 million

NBC’s The Voice: 4.02 million

NBC’s America’s Got Talent: 3.54 million

NBC’s Saturday Night Live: 3.41 million

ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos: 3.31 million

Freshman Series, Fan Growth

Netflix’s Stranger Things: 4.35 million

NBC’s This Is Us: 1.56 million

Netflix’s Fuller House: 1.12 million

TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: 1.10 million

Freeform’s Shadowhunters: 1.09 million

The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow: 994,218

Fox’s Lucifer: 805,995

HBO’s Westworld: 651,527

Netflix’s Luke Cage: 536,672

FX’s Atlanta: 470,902

Source: ListenFirst Media, Jan. 1-Dec. 15, 2016

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