{"id":287777,"date":"2020-02-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1120033"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:00:00","slug":"katy-keene-stars-lucy-hale-and-ashleigh-murray-are-thrilled-to-stop-worrying-about-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/katy-keene-stars-lucy-hale-and-ashleigh-murray-are-thrilled-to-stop-worrying-about-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Keene Stars Lucy Hale and Ashleigh Murray Are Thrilled to Stop Worrying About Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202015\/rs_600x600-200205184045-600x600.katy-keene-lucy-hale-ashleigh-murray-lp.2520.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.608695652174\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.727788279773\">\n<p><em>Katy Keene<\/em> might be calling itself a <em>Riverdale<\/em> spinoff, but it&#8217;s really a show in a class all its own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new series stars <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lucy_hale\">Lucy Hale<\/a><\/strong> as the titular Katy, an aspiring fashion designer who&#8217;s doing her best to live her dreams in New York with her friends. The pilot brings <em>Riverdale<\/em>&#8216;s Josie McCoy (<strong>Ashleigh Murray<\/strong>) into that little circle of dreamers, freeing poor Josie from &#8220;the murder capital of the world.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <em>Katy Keene<\/em> is light and happy in all the ways <em>Riverdale<\/em> rarely ever is, and these friends aren&#8217;t running from serial killers or cults or secret boarding school societies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest difference is everybody lives&#8230;People don&#8217;t have like, <em>those<\/em> kinda problems,&#8221; Ashleigh Murray tells E! News. &#8220;They have like real, regular world problems, not &#8216;don&#8217;t drink that juice&#8217; kinda problems.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And she&#8217;s thrilled about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s incredibly nice. It&#8217;s just gonna be fun to get dressed up really pretty and be running around New York City, and maybe do some karaoke,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I just wanna live life freely and full of fun and without fear.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>Lucy Hale didn&#8217;t come from <em>Riverdale<\/em>, but she did come from her own very murdery teen show with <em>Pretty Little Liars<\/em>. Now, life is much easier.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone&#8217;s not dying, someone&#8217;s not stalking me, it&#8217;s great,&#8221; she tells us, explaining that she really wanted a TV world she felt like she could live in for a while. &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to really switch it up.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She describes the world of Katy Keene as &#8220;like candy.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>You can get a taste of the <em>Katy Keene<\/em> vibe in last night&#8217;s <em>Riverdale<\/em>, in which Veronica took a trip to New York and caught up with her old friend Katy, and you can see the pilot tonight at 8 p.m. on The CW.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above for more from Hale and Murray.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1120033\/katy-keene-stars-lucy-hale-and-ashleigh-murray-are-thrilled-to-stop-worrying-about-murder?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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